Cassie Sealing, executive vice president and daughter of company owner Ed Sealing, said the virus has caused people to stop installing carpets for fear of letting installers into their homes and putting family members at risk.

“However, we service the commercial market and contract market quite a bit and once we realized this was getting serious and states were [starting to look at shutdowns], I called all our customers and took their temperature [on what they were going to do],” Sealing told FreightWaves. “Everyone said we are going to be open for business – we’re working and we’re going to do whatever we could do to keep our people working – and so we doubled down to do the same thing.”

While the fleet, which includes about 25 tractor-trailers, 10 box trucks and some sprinter vans, retained some of its flooring business, it was losing the portion tied to home installation. CCL hauls less-than-truckload flooring materials from the large flooring manufacturers in Dalton, Georgia, to stores, dealers and distributors.

Sealing said CCL suddenly had extra capacity and decided it could do something to fulfill another core mission – philanthropy.

“We’re a small family business and our drivers are like family to us; we know their wives and we wanted to keep them working,” she said. “As a group we have always talked about philanthropy. When times are good, we always talk about what we can do, but we wanted to do something