Across the United States, the nation's 3.5 million professional truckers are working to keep stores and businesses stocked as consumers worry about riding out home quarantines prompted by the coronavirus outbreak.
JOHNSON'S CORNER, Colorado — Sitting in the cab of his blue Volvo big rig, trucker Lee Robertson leafs through the sheaf of papers listing what's stacked inside the refrigerated trailer hooked up behind him.parked at this truck stopRobertson, 56, of Kansas City, is hauling a load destined for small shops and convenience stores across the country. He's not alone.
A trim man with neatly trimmed hair and goatee reflecting the barber he was until 18 months ago, Robertson, along with many other truck drivers, now finds himself on the front lines of the nation's efforts to survive an outbreak that has forced tens of thousands of restaurants to close and emptied grocery store shelves nationwide.
While consumers have begun to fret in recent days about shortages and suffer through home quarantines, trucking companies say they've seen no slowdown in supplies: factories and meat-packing plants are still running at full operation, and there's plenty of food, toilet paper and other supplies to go around. That means drivers, as always, are needed on the road.YRC Worldwide
"If a school system closes down, our employees may not have child care," O'Connor says."Or we have a driver go out there to make a pickup and there's a sign on the door that says one of the employees tested positive and they're closed. What do you do?"
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