Long-haul truck drivers are among the nation’s essential workers, but finding time to get the vaccine is difficult when you are traveling across the country daily to deliver critical items.
There has not been any data on how many commercial drivers have been vaccinated so far, but industry leaders have called for state and federal governments to make rest stops and travel centers vaccination sites.
A Question Of Quarantines
Anthony Tuttle is based in Dryden, in Tompkins County, where his wife and sons live. Most of the time, though, he is on the road. During an interview earlier this spring, he was driving through Indiana on his way to Georgia.