Despite crisis, they keep on trucking to meet the demands of consumers
“I am not too concerned about it. I just stay away from people, keep my hands washed, and go about my normal day,” Williams said, taking a break at the Framingham service plaza on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Boston Globe April 1, 2020: Social distancing is nothing new for Jonathan Williams — as a truck driver, he’s been doing it for the past 25 years, traveling long distances with only himself for company.
Williams, 59, operates an open-deck trailer that last week was filled with guard rails for a bridge project in Massachusetts. Recently, he has been trekking back and forth between Arizona and Massachusetts, sleeping in his truck’s cabin, delivering anything he can get loaded onto his rig.
Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a majority of people to work from home, Williams, like most of the nation’s 3.5 million drivers, has kept rolling, trying to mitigate unprecedented supply chain disruptions by continuing to move goods around the nation.