Opinion: Federal COVID-19 relief package for logging, trucking companies deserves support

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 23, 2020

In order to sustain the supply chain, the 34 member associations of the national American Loggers Council, which includes the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine, have coalesced around a proposal that would provide direct federal assistance to both professional timber harvesting businesses and log trucking businesses. Maine loggers and forest truckers have seen what has been done to help their sisters and brothers in the farming and fishing industries, even before the impact on those industries had been realized, and now they hope that their representatives in Washington, D.C., will do the same for them. ~ Dana Doran, Professional Logging Contractors of Maine