the business

The Bakersfield company has 200 big rigs but a dearth of drivers after authorities canceled thousands of commercial driver’s licenses in California, forcing more than 20 Roadies drivers out of the business and spooking others into quitting.

“The business will be much bigger by then.”

For one city insider, there is a sense that Reeves's effort to play nice with the business community before the election had been for nothing.

“He hasn’t been involved with the business in any real capacity for over 10 years,” McDonald said.

If generations of diplomats viewed the post-Soviet challenges of Eastern Europe as a Gordian knot to be painstakingly unraveled, the president envisioned an easy fix: The borders matter less than the business.