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Coronavirus | Covid-19 & Law Changing Circumstances for The Trucking Industry Delivering Goods

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Coronavirus COVID-19 Update Courtesy of Coleman Vacuum Systems Inc.  The most dreaded event of the year for many truck drivers has been put on hold for the first time ever, thanks to increasing demand for them as the Coronavirus pushes shoppers to panic buy and hospitals to load up on more supplies. The International Roadcheck, typically scheduled for early summer, has been postponed "to later in the year," the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced recently. The CVSA is an intergovernmental agency with local, state, and federal commercial-driver safety officials from Mexico, Canada, and the United States. Each year, the CVSA conducts a 72-hour "blitz" in which 13,000-plus inspectors pull over truck drivers and assess them for following key points of safety laws for commercial drivers. In the US and Canada, the CVSA said the 2019 blitz saw 67,072 inspections uncovering 12,019 critical vehicle problems and 2,784 driver violations. Truck Driver Update

Covid 19 | Coronavirus & The Trucking Industry - Coleman Vacuum Systems Inc.

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Trucking on the Front Line in Fight Against COVID-19 - Coleman Vacuum Systems Inc. As an increasingly aware United States mobilizes to contain the spread the new Coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the trucking industry is uniquely positioned to help in the containment effort – or further accelerate the spread of the pandemic. As the importance of containing the virus hits home, many fleets are stepping up to educate drivers on being safe , while scrambling to meet the run on consumer items that is happening in some areas of the country as people try to prepare for a worst-case scenario. “The Coronavirus has definitely thrown us a huge curve ball. We are seeing some crazy spikes right now with our customers that are shipping paper products, water, and even beer,” Olivia Young, director of marketing and national sales manager for Navajo Express, Denver, Colorado, told HDT in an interview. "We have to figure out where do we need to adjust our capacity? Where do we ne