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TRUCK SALES | PARTS | SERVICE | BODY SHOP            THEY SAID IT
 LEASING & RENTAL | FINANCE | CARRIER





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 parts.mhc.com    “COVID is no longer                                             “The

          smoldering. It has broken


             out into a raging forest                                          crime
 Jonesboro  Fort Smith
 MHC Kenworth  MHC Truck Leasing   fire that will grow in size
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 Little Rock  Springdale
 MHC Kenworth  MHC Kenworth/Volvo  stand still. We must act to
 (866) 419-5718  (866) 271-0785                                                      pay
 MHC Truck Leasing   reduce the consequences
 (866) 862-5283  Van Buren
 MHC Carrier Transicold   MHC Kenworth  of this new surge to the                    for.”
 (866) 243-9660  (866) 811-1358
 Dealership
 Leasing & Rental     extent possible.”                                       —Matthew Smith, executive director
 Truck Source  RoadReady
 Carrier  TRP                                                                 of the Coalition Against Insurance
        —Public health researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical   Fraud and an attorney who for 35 years
        Sciences’ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health in their July 20 forecast on   defended insurance companies in court
 OVER 120 LOCATIONS IN 19 STATES  the increasing toll of COVID-19 in Arkansas



              “A blue-                       “Truck drivers, like doctors and

                                             nurses, are essential workers
                 collar                      and we need to start treating


                                             them that way... Just as the truck
            blueprint                        driver retention problem built up



           to rebuild                        over decades, solving it will be
                                             a years- or decades-long effort.

            America”                         But as President Biden says,

                                             there is nothing Americans can’t


        —President Biden described the       do when we do it together.”
        bipartisan infrastructure framework deal
        that the Senate agreed to take up after   —Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Labor Secretary Martin Walsh in a
        long negotiations with the White House  CNN op-ed on the American truck driver shortage and making the job safer and
                                             more desirable

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