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Unneeded pressure

THIS COVID-19 seems to be here for a while; I think many of us hoped it would be gone by now. It’s even routine to be looking for border closure updates. I wish the information communicated had been done a bit better. Outbreaks like Cedar Meats were very distressing for transporters and hearing about it on TV first, we weren’t given much information or support. Local newspapers and journos helped getting us kept up to date, asking questions and pressuring for answers for freight operators. We are still reading about other hotspot freight sites vs being told by the source companies or health departments.

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