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Alliance Trucking finds the fuel it needs to keep delivering

Alliance Trucking of Medford covers a lot of ground, hauling goods to 48 states. As a full-service brokerage, they know how to get deliveries anywhere they need to be. But the coronavirus slowdown quickly became a major roadblock.

Customers began to have trouble paying their bills and, in turn, company President Rhonda Barry began to worry about taking care of her own employees and their families. “We were definitely feeling the pinch,” says Rhonda.

With everything going on, Rhonda was unaware that a program had been rolled out to help small businesses—the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

Dawn Hartley, Relationship Banking Officer at Oregon Pacific Bank in Medford, called the trucking company to tell them about the program. “She said, ‘You guys want to jump on this?'” Rhonda recalls.

At the time, Alliance Trucking was doing business with another bank, so Rhonda reached out to see if they could apply through their bank. After repeated phone calls, she was finally told to apply online and was not offered help.

“I called Dawn at Oregon Pacific Bank and told her what I’d learned. She said, ‘I can get the money for you.’ So, I took my paperwork to her and she helped me fill it out—it took us about an hour.” The approval came shortly after and funds arrived within a few days. “It was huge for us,” Rhonda says.

Dawn was happy to be of service. “I heard ‘Thank you so much!’ so many times,” she says of the time she spent helping local businesses with their PPP loan applications. Helping businesses and lifting up the community is at the core of Oregon Pacific Bank’s mission, Dawn says.

Rhonda ultimately decided to move their accounts to Oregon Pacific bank, and she’s glad they made the switch. “With Oregon Pacific, it’s such a small bank and they really care about their customers—they care about their people,” she says.

In all, Oregon Pacific Bank has loaned more than $125.2 million to 752 businesses and nonprofits in Lane, Coos, Douglas and Jackson counties, as part of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program, retaining more than 15,000 local jobs. Part of the CARES Act, these forgivable loans provide a direct incentive for businesses and nonprofits to keep workers employed during the crisis.

Alliance Trucking of Medford covers a lot of ground, hauling goods to 48 states. As a full-service brokerage, they know how to get deliveries anywhere they need to be. But the coronavirus slowdown quickly became a major roadblock.

Customers began to have trouble paying their bills and, in turn, company President Rhonda Barry began to worry about taking care of her own employees and their families. “We were definitely feeling the pinch,” says Rhonda.

With everything going on, Rhonda was unaware that a program had been rolled out to help small businesses—the federal Paycheck Protection Program.

Dawn Hartley, Relationship Banking Officer at Oregon Pacific Bank in Medford, called the trucking company to tell them about the program. “She said, ‘You guys want to jump on this?'” Rhonda recalls.

“I called Dawn at Oregon Pacific Bank and told her what I’d learned. She said, ‘I can get the money for you.’ So, I took my paperwork to her and she helped me fill it out—it took us about an hour.” The approval came shortly after and funds arrived within a few days. “It was huge for us,” Rhonda says.

Dawn was happy to be of service. “I heard ‘Thank you so much!’ so many times,” she says of the time she spent helping local businesses with their PPP loan applications. Helping businesses and lifting up the community is at the core of Oregon Pacific Bank’s mission, Dawn says.

Rhonda ultimately decided to move their accounts to Oregon Pacific bank, and she’s glad they made the switch. “With Oregon Pacific, it’s such a small bank and they really care about their customers—they care about their people,” she says.

In all, Oregon Pacific Bank has loaned more than $125.2 million to 752 businesses and nonprofits in Lane, Coos, Douglas and Jackson counties, as part of the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program, retaining more than 15,000 local jobs. Part of the CARES Act, these forgivable loans provide a direct incentive for businesses and nonprofits to keep workers employed during the crisis.

Banker Spotlight

Dawn Hartley

Dawn Hartley

VP, Relationship Banking Officer
Medford Branch
541-858-0192


“The reason I chose to join Oregon Pacific Bank was because of the outstanding reputation they have and because they are an Oregon-based community bank.”


Dawn Hartley was born and raised in Jackson County. “The Rogue Valley is a beautiful place to live,” she says.

While raising three sons, she and her family spent a lot of time at little league games. Her numbers skills proved invaluable in terms of scorekeeping, which could sometimes be extra challenging with more than one game going on at a time, she says.

A couple years ago, she decided to leave a bank where she had worked for about 20 years to launch a new Medford branch for Oregon Pacific Bank, where she’s now a Vice President and Relationship Banking Officer.

“The reason I chose to join Oregon Pacific Bank was because of the outstanding reputation they have and because they are an Oregon-based community bank,” she says.

The new Medford branch has faced some challenges because it opened to the public just before the pandemic. The bank’s teammates, however, soon found themselves playing a vital community role as they reached out to local businesses to help them arrange loans through the federal Paycheck Protection Program. Their good work attracted a lot of new customers to OPB, and many local jobs have remained intact due to their tireless efforts.

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