One Driver’s Solution to Long-haul Loneliness
MISSISSAUGA — Your girlfriend leaves you, and then your mother passes away, leaving you more or less on your own.
Hard breaks for anyone, but given the hours of loneliness long-haul truckers endure, hard-breaks of that sort are probably a bit harder.
That’s exactly what happened to TransX lease-operator Jason Burry last September.
Today’s Trucking editors Peter Carter and Jason Rhyno, along with Canadian Technician editor Allan Janssen and intern Michael Brown, were out for a steak lunch at Master Steaks on Dixie Rd. today when Burry bobtailed into the trucker-friendly restaurant.
From the cab of his 2013 Pete 386, two little dogs were perched at the driver’s window watching their master.
Asked about the pups, Burry told the editors about the death of his mother and his girlfriend leaving. “I had nobody all of a sudden.”
Both of the pups, fittingly-named Bam and Loner, are rescues. Burry runs from Montreal to Winnipeg, then down to the States and back up to Montreal, with Bam and Loner in tow.
“They’re always happy to see me, no matter if I’m happy or angry or having a bad day.
“I can’t live without them.”
The other thing Burry seemingly can’t live without? A sense of humor — unfortunately none of those jokes are fit to print.
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