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COVID-19 is crushing freight rates

Published: April 9, 2020, midnight

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.

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