The COVID-19 pandemic has forced beverage distribution operations across the country to pivot and rethink most of their day-to-day operations. And though the end of this “new normal” can’t come too soon, most fleet operators have, for the most part, been able to adapt.
“Needless to say, it’s been far from business as usual,” says Ed Pritchard, senior vice president of fleet operations for Silver Eagle Distributors, Houston. “We are considered an essential business. As such our drivers, warehouse personnel, maintenance technicians, key management and others have and continue to work straight through the entire pandemic.”