Families of US truckers killed on the job left struggling for help
by Michael Sainato from US news | The Guardian on (#5V0KJ)
Nonprofit Truckers Final Mile was set up by a driver who witnessed first-hand companies' indifference to death and injury on the road
On the day after Christmas, 56-year-old Daryn Worster, a long-haul truck driver, was seriously injured in a crash near Grants, New Mexico. He died from injuries sustained during the crash.
Though Worster worked for a trucking firm, his wife Joani said she received no help from the company in bringing her husband home from New Mexico to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he would be laid to rest.
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