Former longtime owner-operator Jeff Clark, now in a company truck with the fleet he leased to for years, Paper Transport, runs a regular route between Minneapolis and Racine, Wisconsin, and other points in his home state (he’s based near Green Bay). He’s among the many professional drivers moved by what has been, this week, an outpouring of support from in many cases anonymous individuals both inside and outside the trucking world, as truck stops adjust to keep their services open and available to truckers working the roads.
That’s a point well known, he said, by anybody trucking food, medical supplies and, in Clark’s case, the cardboard so much of those things end up in at some point. “We’re not on the front lines like the medical people are, but we’re the supply-line soldiers,” he said. No doubt.
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