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COVID-19 is crushing freight rates

Apr 09, 202049 min
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Episode description

LLN (4/8/20) – The COVID-19 pandemic caused freight rates to rise in recent weeks – but for the very same reason, that’s over for now. Also, we reported earlier that infrastructure spending was a likely part of the next stimulus legislation to deal with COVID-19’s economic fallout. We’ll explain what’s likely to happen next. And Women in Trucking’s first Female Driver of the Year is putting her passion for trucking to good use by inspiring a whole new generation of female truck drivers.

0:00 – Newscast.

9:44 – Women in Trucking Female Driver of the Year.

24:05 – Having pushed rates, up, COVID-19 now pushes them down.

38:33 – Infrastructure in the next COVID-19 stimulus – the latest.

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