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Logistics in the COVID Era

Title (Dublin Core)

Logistics in the COVID Era

Description (Dublin Core)

Logistics and Transportation have seen dramatic changes since the beginning of the pandemic, and as such, my life has drastically changed as well. When the pandemic started, I worked for a trucking company that had grown into a major corporation. With all of the uncertainty in the world, I decided to bet on myself and leave that job to start my own company. This is how my life has changed since then, and what a typical day in my world looks like now, which is much different than it looked at the beginning of 2020.

I wake up at 6 am and grab my laptop, I then log in to my load boards and post the loads I have to work on for the day. 90% of my business is done over email, so I am able to get my work started before I even start to get ready for the day. I then have time to talk with my wife as we get ready, answering emails as we go. When 8 am rolls around, I wake up my two sons, ages 8 and 1. We have family time in the morning, eating breakfast and watching the news before my wife heads off to her Law School. I then take my boys to their respective schools and drop them off for the day. At this point, if I have any errands to run I usually try to knock those out. I then head home and start bidding on new loads for the days to come. And since most of my work is done over email, I am able to knock any household chores out that need to be done for the day. When lunch rolls around I like to meet my wife for a quick bite some days, and other days I eat a simple lunch at home. I am usually able to wrap up most of my business by 3:30 pm and head to pick up my 1-year-old son from his school. When we get back home, we meet my 8-year-old son as he is getting off the school bus around 4:15. We have some father/sons time, and my wife usually arrives back home around 5:30 pm. Once we have dinner, I then get to work on whatever schoolwork or reading I need to do, and then a little more family time before bed. Since the pandemic forced/allowed me to take on this new opportunity, I am able to see my family much more than I did when I was spending 50+ hours per week in an office, with another 5 hours spent commuting. The pandemic has been awful for a lot of reasons, but as a silver lining, I hope that we have learned how to be more efficient with our time and to realize that the bulk of our waking hours do not necessarily need to be spent in an office when we can accomplish the same amount or more remotely, while greatly increasing our mental health.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 21, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

Christopher Wimberly

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Christopher Wimberly

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Quarantine Teacher Parade
Neighborhood Sidewalk Art

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Home & Family Life
English Social Distance
English Transportation
English Business & Industry
English Entrepreneurs

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

self employed
trucking
quality time
mental health
work

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Pandemic Prompt
Day In The Life

Collection (Dublin Core)

Teleworking
Mental Health

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

03/22/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/30/2022
06/07/2022
08/02/2022

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Covid 19

This item was submitted on March 22, 2022 by Christopher Wimberly using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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