Getting hit with covid while on the road and out of the country

I apologize for your treatment on this side of the border......

The US medical system sucks during the best of times..... and is a complete sick joke now.......

I wish you a complete recovery

 

This is a battle we are fighting.

We will get through this at some point as well. Provided we don't have some random Extinction Level Event pening (ELE... something you do not ever want to hear on news)

COVID is really serious. Im sorry you are sick and so on. Your job is to just get better. Don't worry about the rest. Let it go.

 

Doesn't really sound like she was treated like an "essential worker" by her company. Definetly not singing the praises of her employer,is she?

How did all that transpire to get her home and yet contact with her company wasn't mentioned?

This clearly shows how little drivers are really worth to the companies that employ them. Looks like they just wanted the truck home and didn't want the press of having a driver in the fleet to be known to have Covid 19.

I have said it before and I'll say it again.
Drivers,go home. It's not worth being out there on a good day,never mind working through this pandemic.

You're worthless to these companies.

 

If they have to go home, no harm no foul.

Im one of those idiots who will take her out onto the road, loaded and rolling. It wont be something to worry about anyway. And roll em down the road to get the load there.

It is true that the majority of companies pay lip service to make orientations think they are family but are continually abused over the decades. That is one reason I try to behave a little better when that subject comes up.

Much of the conflicts that I have seen over the years with company could have resolved with a few dollars spending either on my part or theirs.

The radio had to play a little tune tonight. I was a teen when this first came out decades ago. And half the performers are gone now. However I think the tune is worth it in the current issue for morale purposes.

 

I drove for the carrier it looks like she is with, I can't imagine them screwing her around and not helping. There has got to be more to the story here.

 

How was working for them?

 

I found them to be a decent company. Maintenance was good. Trucks were 3 years or less, fully loaded interiors, leather seats. Pay was alright. It has come way up since I moved on. I felt respected there as a driver. Work was steady LTL to and from the US.

They had their weaknesses though. Turning their back on a driver in a situation like this sounds strange. They're very interactive on a few social media platforms; it doesn't make sense that they would pull something like this and think it wouldn't be thrown back at them over and over again on social media.

I maintain there is more to the story here. I wish this woman a full recovery though.

 

I don't see anything fishy about the story.

A sick Canadian in the USA trying to find help without a credit card, making phone calls and getting no answers, her company who never had to deal with a situation like this before, making phone calls and getting no answers.
No surprise at all.

I tried to rent a car last summer without a credit card, to meet my 40 year old daughter for the first time, called a dozen rental companies, all wanted a credit card and deposit around $300.

I offered a $1000 cash deposit, none would go for it.
You don't need to tell me why, I know the reasons.