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ClasTran driver for elderly and homeless COVID patients dead of coronavirus: ‘We lost a good one’
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It wasn’t an assignment most people would eagerly accept. Or accept at all.
Except Randy Roberson.
The 56-year-old Birmingham man who worked as a driver for ClasTran - a transportation system for elderly and/or disabled clients - stepped up to the plate without a thought, said Shari Spencer, ClasTran’s executive director.
“He said, “That’s no problem Shari. I’ll take care of it. I’ll do whatever I have to do to transport them,’ Spencer recalled. “That’s the kind of guy he was.”