Food trucks help truck drivers get hot meals in Auburn during COVID-19 pandemic

Thanks to regulations put in place by both INDOT and ODOT, food trucks are now able to serve food at rest areas, filling a need for semi truck drivers during COVID-19 shutdowns.

Covid-19 has provided difficulties for the trucking indue ry including how they going to get food while on the road.

Now in-dot and o-dot are helping truckers out.

Fox caleb saylor is live to explain how businesses are meeting the needs of truck drive s.

Caleb?as you aware, restaurants are closed to walk up orders and a semi truck wo fit through the drive through, which means warm meals are hard to come by on the road, but local restaurants are taking this as a chance to help truck drivers out.

For 11 hours a day, bill austin is on the road.

Hauling lumber from western new york to michigan with a stop in cincinnati in between.

With the ovid-19 shut downs, he recently found himself in a bind trying to get a hot meal actually stopped in the drive through with the tractor trailer and i walked up and they wouldn't serve me and said i need to be in the vehicle.

Compromise do have refrigerator in my truck so i ate a lot of sandwiches and cereal but it is unfortunate getting a hot meals next to impossible some of the truck stops do we have a burger king or mcdonald's but you get a little sick of that.

Both the indiana and ohio department of transportation are allowing food trucks at rest stops to help meet their needs.

Autumn law, the owner of ziffles zip n go barbecue food truck is one of many helping fill their stomachs, despite making little money going to be wasn about the money.

We wouldn't make anything close to what we would do at other events, but it was just about... providing food to the people that are most important at this time.

Jennifer ambellan works at the rest stop, she says her trucker friends complain about the snack available there, so it good they have an option during to give e.

The trucker's a choice instead of havin that.

They can always pull off on the exit you know this is, this is it and it's nice to see that the truckers could actually have a hot meal.

Drivers are always thankful for easy tion and it for her to help those who help many businesses throughout the country.hese are the people that we should be feeding the most not just saying like oh well these are the ones that are the force behind everything so it was like us it was a no-brainer we have the ability to feed then why wouldn't we that's what we do.- law explained that the toughest thing so far for them is drivers being confused if theye serving food or not, so if you see a food truck at a rest stop, they may be waiting to help youlive in auburn, caleb saylor fox 55 news ?

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