In this COVID-19 pandemic, long haul truck drivers are depended upon to deliver the goods – feeding millions on both sides of the 5,500-mile US/Canada border. <PHOTO ABOVE – Richard Buchan, Canadian Press>
American trucker DARRELL WOOLSEY, 52, sums up the challenge he and fellow drivers face.
“I live in something smaller than a jail cell all the time. I hear other people complaining, and I’m like, get over it. There’s lots of us living like this, all the time, coronavirus or not.” He adds “It’s in the middle of the night that things feel a little more ‘Mad Maxy’,”On the Canadian side of the border it’s much the same, with the often exception of this country’s long, uninhabited and under serviced stretches of highway.
There’s a reason Canada is nicknamed ‘Big Lonely’. No doubt many truckers would certainly understand that. <BELOW – Queen Elizabeth Way, Globe and Mail photo>