‘We’re out here trying to do a job’: Truckers work through obstacles brought on by COVID-19

Dewane Nerison was resting in his rig Monday at the Lancaster Travel Plaza like he’s done countless times before.

But Monday was different.

“Normally this truck stop would be packed by now,” he said shortly before noon.

The Ronks truck stop, located a half-mile east of The Shops at Rockvale along Route 30, was nearly empty.

As Nerison spoke, a man waved trucks away, telling drivers the restrooms were closed.

Chandra Bantawa manages the truck stop’s convenience store. But on this day he was managing potential customers, telling them if they wanted a bag of chips or a pack of cigarettes they would have to wait at the door as an employee retrieved the items. And customers paying with cash were allowed inside only to dip their money in a bucket of sanitizer.

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