Truck Drivers, The Unsung Heroes During Coronavirus Pandemic: Despite Risks, Truckers Deliver the Goods We Purchase

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Out there in the danger, out there touching countless surfaces that could be infected, out there working punishing hours for low wages are the people we too often overlook and take for granted — even though they are the ones who keep our world turning.
Away from their families, risking illness, America’s farm workers, truck drivers, grocery store workers, sanitation workers, and delivery people, are holding together the slender thread that keeps our supply chains moving, and those supply chains are the literal difference between civilization and anarchy.


America’s truckers are the most important people in the country right now (including doctors…because how will they do their jobs without their supplies?). We should move heaven and earth to take care of them.


A crucial part of that supply chain is the American trucker, who makes sure that goods are delivered in a timely fashion. That is always the case, but it is especially true in the sudden global emergency we face today.
Americans have rushed to stock up on goods as they prepare to hunker down to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. We’ve watched schools, businesses, major sports and other cultural pillars come to a complete stop as personal health and well-being take top priority.
But one thing that won’t stop: trucking.
 
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There is good and bad to this. My husband works for a trucking company. I worry about him because he says many truckers are coming to work sick. Yes it is a “good” that they are supplying stock to stores. The bad is that they are doing it at the expense of their own health and are still exposing others to their illness. It’s also a bad thing that they don’t have an employee health department to instruct them about the importance of calling off sick. In fact I sincerely wish that many of them would
 
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