A veteran truck driver describes life on the road during the coronavirus pandemic.
As people across the U.S. shelter in place to contain the novel coronavirus, the nation’s truck drivers continue to traverse the country, transporting goods — but the landscape they’re experiencing is radically different post-virus.
“I've seen on the news people rushing to buy toilet paper. And in the area that I was in at the time, as I was watching that, I was watching load counts spike, and it was just, overnight, thousands and thousands and thousands of loads,” he said. “And the next morning my phone was getting phone calls off the hook from brokers. Can you cover this load? Can you cover this load? Can you cover this load? And it was just out of nowhere. It was like chaos on our side of the fence.
“I even saw a facility — I won't mention their name — but they put up on a piece of paper [with] a phone number to text,” he said. “And you would text that phone number, and then they would text you what door to take the truck to, and then they would text you when you were done, and then they would text you where the paperwork was.”
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