COVID-19 pandemic struck, trucker Dave Wye had to think long and hard about whether he was willing to stay on the front lines.The 54-year-old, a second-generation long-haul driver from Windsor, Ont., worried his exposure while transporting whiskey and wine between Quebec and Kentucky would risk his own health as well as his family’s.“It’s always in the back of my mind.
I’ve got a wife at home that’s asthmatic, I’ve got a daughter that’s asthmatic” — both of whom help take care of his 80-year-old father and 94-year-old father-in-law — he said.“There’s still an underlying stress there,” Wye said in an interview from a truck stop in Cornwall, Ont.