Covid-19's Impact On Trucking Industry

Trucking companies haul essential goods out of Southern Minnesota.

The problem is their 'back haul' or what they return..

Is operating at 50-percent of what it normally is.

Because an industry is deemed 'essential' in the coronavirus pandemic doesn't mean it's immune to financial difficulties.

Kimt news three's calyn thompson caught up with a local trucking company about how they're adjusting to the new normal.

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We have to remember the things we get at the store to put in our fridge at home just don't magically appear.

It's trucks like these that move goods around the nation and into our communities.

Today i caught up with owner of yaggy trucking.

Steve yaggy tells me they're able to haul essential goods out of southern minnesota... the problem is their 'back haul' or what they return..

Is operating at 5?percent of what it normally is.

That's why yaggy says he's thankful for the paycheck protection program.xxx it's gonna give us money as a company to make up that gap between what my loss of income and what the employees need for their paycheck.

So it's doing exactly what it was supposed to do for us.

Yaggy says he has about 50 employees... both full and par?time.

He says none have had to be laid off or furloughed.

Live in rochester, calyn thompson, kimt news 3./// there are approximately ?poin?5 million professional truck drivers in the ?s.

That's according to estimates by the american trucking association.///