{"id":1656,"date":"2014-11-26T22:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/buffalo-snow-pocalypse-stuck-in-a-truck\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:52:03","slug":"buffalo-snow-pocalypse-stuck-in-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/buffalo-snow-pocalypse-stuck-in-a-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Snow-pocalypse: Stuck in a truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt of an excellent Truck News<\/em><\/strong> article about a professional truck driver for CTA member carrier, J.G. Drapeau Transport. He found himself stuck in his truck in Buffalo during last week\u2019s devastating snowfall. It\u2019s a great tale about the challenges of wintertime trucking, goodwill and professionalism:<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week Brian Foster, a professional driver for Ontario-based J.G. Drapeau Transport, made a delivery he\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the snowfall in Buffalo, N.Y. shocked residents when an incredible seven feet of white fluffy stuff covered their roads, yards, and cars. Buffalo and surrounding area were (and still are) in a \u201csnow-pocalypse\u201d as it has been dubbed on social media.<\/p>\n

After picking up a load in Indiana, Foster was driving back up to deliver in Fort Erie on Tuesday afternoon. He was just 30 kilometres west of Buffalo, in a housing subdivision when the unrelenting snowfall\u00a0filled up the roads.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was driving along and I just couldn\u2019t go anymore,\u201d said Foster, 65, who has been a professional driver since 1979 and has been driving with J.G. Drapeau for 34 years. \u201cThere was too much snow. So I pulled over and then a neighbour came over and asked me if I was okay and they invited me into their house\u2026they fed me and gave me a place to sleep so that was very nice of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foster was one of the lucky drivers who just happened to be in the right place at the right time \u2013 parking in a subdivision with kind residents. Reports of some truckers running out of water and food in their cab have been surfacing of late because of how long they\u2019ve been trapped on the sides of the highways.<\/p>\n

When he awoke Wednesday morning, Foster said he went out to his truck to try and dig himself out. To his dismay, snowplows \u2013 what was supposed to be a saving grace \u2013 came by and buried his truck deeper in the snow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried listening to the news to see what was going to happen and what everyone was going to do but nothing was happening fast enough,\u201d said Foster.<\/p>\n

Eventually a tow truck came to pull Foster out on Wednesday afternoon, but it wasn\u2019t smooth sailing as more snow came pouring down. He said he didn\u2019t travel more than seven miles before the roads were closed again. Luckily, he parked near a Tim Hortons and eventually got to sleep that night.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning Foster woke up to a city that was again lifeless. The Tim Hortons he had parked in was closed, so breakfast wasn\u2019t an option. He carried on with the water bottles he had stored in his cab.<\/p>\n

He eventually made it to the Fort Erie Truck Stop Thursday evening after being escorted by a state vehicle, where he got to eat and shower and take a much needed rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a real mess, it was a nightmare,\u201d he said of the whole ordeal. \u201cThere were lots of trucks I saw that were stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foster said he was lucky and thankful that he was taken in by the kind family on that first night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to stay one more night (in Buffalo), I would have been in big trouble,\u201d he said. \u201cI was out of food and I was on my last bottle of water.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Margaret Hogg, general manager of J.G. Drapeau heard Foster, as well as another one of her drivers, was stuck in Buffalo she said she felt sick.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy insides turned completely,\u201d she said. \u201cI haven\u2019t slept since. Last night when I got the phone call around 6 p.m. from the dispatcher saying he made it across my heart just kind of starting singing again. It\u2019s one of those moments that make you just pray and think about it constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hogg said that the first thing she did when she saw Foster was give him a hug.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s like a brother to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Despite the circumstances, Foster was able to make his delivery and Hogg says his efforts will not go unrewarded.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think both drivers deserve a nice weekend away,\u201d she said saying that she would be organizing for both of them\u00a0to have a short trip with their spouses.<\/p>\n

Hogg said the other J.G. Drapeau driver that was stuck in the Buffalo snowstorm has been re-routed. He is currently going through Sarnia area and is doing fine.<\/p>\n

Kevin Hall, vice-president of Keith Hall and Sons Transport based in Burford, Ont. also has as a driver who has been stranded in Buffalo since Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201c(We are) just waiting for driver to let us know when he has\u00a0been dug \u00a0out, at the mercy of the locals with big shovels,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n

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