Alaskan trucking businesses that transport goods through Canada are adapting to Canadian vaccine requirements.
“This time of year, you can’t hardly really turn down a lot of stuff,” Alaska Auto Transport Manager Randy Stingley said. “If things go across Canada, you have to be vaccinated.”
“We went ahead and did it to be able to provide the service from here to Haines, or here to the Southeast,” Stingley said. “It made it basically to where it was very inconvenient and somebody had to go do it. So as one of the bosses, I did it,” Stingley said.
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