(Robert Morton is a media, financial, and policy analyst whose research expertise includes Hollywood, the credit markets, and COVID-19 data.)
The men and women of the commercial trucking industry are indispensable. Seventy-three percent of the country’s freight (by weight) is carried by these hard-working Americans, either as independent owner-operators or as employees of commercial fleets.
Yet this backbone of America is taken for granted. We are so accustomed to seeing 18-wheelers on our highways that they become invisible. Without them, there is no supply chain. Without them, there are no supplies. Without them, our nation is crippled.
America must do more to support them just as one company, and its fleet health and safety technology, has been supporting these workers since 2002.
Zonar Systems was founded on a simple idea: electronically verified inspections could…
