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Truckload Carriers warns of vaccine mandate’s ‘far-reaching implications’

17 September 2021

A second leading trucking trade organization has come out with a statement that doesn’t outright say it opposes the proposed Biden administration’s vaccine mandate but comes very close to it.

Like the earlier statement released by the American Trucking Associations, the Truckload Carriers Association, in a letter signed by its chairman, does not take a firm stand declaring that the mandate to vaccinate workers at companies with more than 100 employees is a bad idea. But the statement does say...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truckload-carriers-warns-of-vaccine-mandates-far-reaching-implications

ATA warns vaccine mandate could do “harm”

13 September 2021

The American Trucking Associations does not like the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate.

In a prepared statement released late Friday, ATA President and CEO Chris Spear said the mandate announced Thursday would “fall short” of the medical standard to “do no harm.”

The rule would require businesses with more than 100 workers to ensure that their employees are fully vaccinated or that unvaccinated workers produce a negative COVID test result weekly.

The statement also suggests the ATA may be...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ata-warns-vaccine-mandate-could-do-harm

The day after: Trucking ponders what vaccination mandate means for industry

10 September 2021

(John Gallagher, FreightWaves’ Washington correspondent, also contributed to this article.)

In the first 24 hours of speculation regarding how President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate would impact the trucking industry, an unusual sentiment developed in some quarters: excitement.

Some of that positive anticipation was coming from fleets that had less than 100 employees because they would be excluded from the requirement that their workforces be vaccinated. Given that they are almost all...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/the-day-after-trucking-ponders-what-vaccination-mandate-means-for-industry

Vaccine mandates and big companies — The Stockout

10 September 2021

The Bidenadministration has taken a firm stance on several issues that will affect CPG companies around the industry.

In this episode of The Stockout, Mike Baudendistel discusses some of those decisions, including the administration’s announcement that it will crack down on what it sees as profiteering in a concentrated meat processing industry, specifically with Tyson Foods.

Baudendistel also touches on what the mandate that companies with over 100 employees need to be vaccinated means for the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/vaccine-mandates-and-big-companies-the-stockout

Biden vaccine mandate may worsen low driver retention rates

10 September 2021

An emergency rule being developed by the U.S. Department of Labor mandating vaccines or weekly testing for workers at companies with 100 or more employees is likely to exacerbate the already low driver retention rates in the trucking industry.

“Some of the biggest companies are already requiring this — United Airlines, Disney, Tyson Foods and even Fox News,” said President Joe Biden in announcing the new requirement at the White House late Thursday. “The bottom line: We’re going to protect...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/biden-vaccine-mandate-may-worsen-low-driver-retention-rates

Viewpoint: Living proof of COVID vaccine’s death-defying power

7 September 2021

I’m grateful to be back at my desk after a more than monthlong battle with COVID. I’m a statistic now — one of the unlucky few fully vaccinated people who wound up in the ICU.

My husband and I together went to a FEMA-run site in Jacksonville, Florida, where we live, and obtained the Pfizer vaccine as soon as we were eligible, receiving the first dose in late March and the second in early April.

Over the next few months, our lives returned to “normal.” (One could argue that there is nothing...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-living-proof-of-covid-vaccines-death-defying-power

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