44: How Has COVID-19 Changed Trucking?

On this week’s episode of The Oakley Podcast, host Jeremy Kellett talks with Oakley operations manager Colby Foster to take a look at some of the ways that COVID-19 has changed trucking, both positively and negatively.

Key topics in today’s conversation include:

  • Need to Know with Vickie Chastain: planning for handling taxes (1:53)
  • Truck drivers showed they were the backbone of the economy (5:00)
  • Changes that drivers have experienced this year (6:48)
  • Adjustments that dispatch has made (12:40)
  • Recruiting pipeline changes (26:46)

Thank you Colby for coming on the show and discussing the ways Oakley has adjusted during the pandemic.

Oakley Trucking is a family-owned and operated trucking company headquartered in North Little Rock, Arkansas. For more information, check out our show website: podcast.bruceoakley.com