Truck Drivers Are America’s Unsung Heroes

Mar 22, 2020 at 08:35 AM CST
Our nation’s health-care workers are giving us a daily profile in courage as they serve on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19—increasingly at the expense of their own health. But there’s another group of Americans out there quietly and often very much alone, working long hours to keep supply lines intact so that our health-care workers have vitally needed medical supplies and the rest of us have groceries and other essential supplies. I’m speaking of the approximately 1.8 million women and men who drive trucks across our nation’s highways.

Mar 22, 2020 at 08:35 AM CST

Our nation’s health-care workers are giving us a daily profile in courage as they serve on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19—increasingly at the expense of their own health. But there’s another group of Americans out there quietly and often very much alone, working long hours to keep supply lines intact so that our health-care workers have vitally needed medical supplies and the rest of us have groceries and other essential supplies. I’m speaking of the approximately 1.8 million women and men who drive trucks across our nation’s highways.