Truck stops

Vaccinations at truck stops? Trade groups pushing for them

Trucking trade groups and a group of fleets and drivers are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to allow truck stops and travel plazas to offer vaccinations to drivers passing through.

Some drivers, however, do not think that is a good idea.

“I don’t think they are sterile enough for that,” said 35-year veteran driver Carla Dickey. “I’m not enthused about that deal.”

But Dickey, a long-haul driver of produce and eggs for Bulkley Trucking Inc. based in Bashear, Texas, understands...

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The Daily Dash: Turning truck stops into vaccination centers

The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, a Tennessee lawmaker is looking into the possibility of making COVID-19 vaccines available at a major truck stop operator. Plus, trucking regulations could be changing under the Biden administration, and trucking employment fell in January but questions remain as to why.

Should truck stops become vaccination clinics?

A Tennessee lawmaker said he would look into the potential for making vaccines...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-daily-dash-turning-truck-stops-into-vaccination-centers

Truck stops close shop ahead of Hurricane Laura

Truck stops along the U.S. Gulf Coast in Texas and Louisiana are preparing for a potentially devastating hurricane by closing locations ahead of the storm.

“Love’s is monitoring the latest developments as Hurricane Laura nears landfall in the Gulf Coast area,” Love’s Travel Stops posted in a bulletin issued at 12:15 pm EDT.

“We are taking precautions and increasing fuel and food deliveries today to stay stocked as people are evacuating. Our store and support teams are prepared to serve Customers...

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8 questions on truck stop issues with NATSO CEO Lisa Mullings

NATSO's Lisa Mullings and family

Lisa Mullings uniquely understands truckstop and travel plaza owners. After selling the family home in 2014, Mullings and her family traveled 40,000 miles in a 30-foot Airstream trailer, meeting hundreds of NATSO members along the way.

“In addition to talking to our members, we got to talk to a lot of professional drivers as well,” Mullings told FreightWaves in an interview. “We have a much bigger appreciation for how hard it is for drivers on the highway. Car drivers don’t realize how difficult...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/8-questions-on-truck-stop-issues-with-natso-ceo-lisa-mullings

TravelCenters of America closing restaurants on COVID uptick; Q2 misses expectations

Truck moving through TA travel center parking lot

After reopening some of its restaurants in May, TravelCenters of America (TA) (NASDAQ: TA) is in the process of closing restaurants again due to the “recent increase in COVID-19 infections in several states,” it reported in its second-quarter 2020 earnings press release.

On Wednesday, the operator of more than 260 travel plazas and truck stops in the U.S. and Canada reported adjusted earnings per share of 59 cents, almost four times the year-ago result. However, the company came in light of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/travelcenters-of-america-closing-restaurants-on-covid-uptick-q2-misses-expectations

Survey says: Truckers love their guns

There seems to be no question that guns are popular in the trucking industry, but whether a trucking company would change its internal policies if federal concealed weapons laws became less strict is less certain.

Responses to an informal, nonscientific email survey sent to a broad selection of drivers, owner-operators, managers and fleet executives revealed that close to 70% of respondents from companies with 500 trucks or less either sometimes or always carry a concealed gun on their persons...

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