Trucking teams to CDC: Truck stops, travel plazas ought to be vaccination websites | 2021-03-15

Alexandria, VA — A coalition of trucking-linked teams, which includes the American Trucking Associations and an affiliation that signifies truck prevent owners, is urging the Facilities for Illness Manage and Prevention to designate truck stops and journey plazas as mobile COVID-19 vaccination web sites to enable “alleviate substantial troubles that truck drivers now encounter in receiving an expedient vaccine.”

In a letter dated Feb. 25 and despatched to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, ATA, NATSO – previously known as the National Association of Truck Quit Operators – and other individuals contend truck drivers “should be permitted to get a vaccine in a state other than that in which they reside thanks to their size of time on the highway and absent from dwelling.”

The coalition also requests that drivers be permitted to obtain a next dose of a vaccine at a different site, if needed.

“It is improbable that they would have the means to return to the key vaccination web site on a unique date or time,” the letter states. “By administering vaccines through our nationwide network of spots, we can be certain the means of our staff members and the nation’s truck drivers to keep on serving on the entrance traces of the gas and food distribution programs across the state.

 

“Furthermore, by vaccinating truck prevent staff, we can amplify the breadth and scope of vaccination deployment throughout the communities in which we operate. It is crucial that we defend all those who are offering critical provides – together with the vaccine – all through the region.”

The coalition also consists of the Truckload Carriers Association, Nationwide Private Truck Council, National Affiliation of Compact Trucking Organizations, St. Christopher Truckers Reduction Fund, and Countrywide Tank Truck Carriers.