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SEASON TWO
ROADSIGNS EPISODE 33
HOW ARE TRUCKING COMPANIES WEATHERING THE CORONAVIRUS STORM?
There is no playbook for navigating the COVID-19 crisis. Yet, open communication and access to a virtual work place can ease the transition to a remote environment and help ensure that essential freight arrives on time. But what about those who can't work from home? What about the front line drivers? How can trucking companies adjust their operations to ensure that essential freight keeps moving while protecting their workers? According to senior risk consultant at Hub International, Lilli Chiu, and president of cross-border LTL carrier Polaris Transportation, Dave Cox, fleets can establish measures to help protect their drivers and other employees from contracting the virus. Join host Seth Clevenger as he discovers safety tips and risk management strategies for both the virtual back-office and on the road.
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Lilli Chiu is a AVP/Senior Risk Consultant for the Risk Services Division in Canada. She brings over 18 years of experience in occupational health and safety consulting and commercial insurance risk management. She has an extensive background working in regulatory compliance and safety consulting with a variety of companies in transportation manufacturing, healthcare and construction. She currently co-leads a team of Risk Consultants focused on the Transportation and Commercial Fleet industry. She develops a wide range of consulting services in all sectors of business to identify and control workplace hazards and organizational exposures to reduce a client’s overall total cost of risk.
Dave Cox
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Dave Cox is President of Polaris Transportation Group, the largest privately held LTL carrier in Canada that serves every zip code in the USA and every postal code in Canada. Each year Polaris moves more than 300,000 orders to or from the United States. Polaris is comprised of five operating divisions that are not only leading providers of cross-border LTL but of global logistics, transport, technology and hazmat-certified warehousing. Polaris is an industry leader in advanced robotics automation with its own in-house Digital Laboratory and a new company called NorthStar Digital Solutions.
