The best days are yet to come.
A Brampton trucking company is helping spread a message of hope with its first wrapped trailer, which will be sent across Canada and the Midwestern United States.
“During times like this, everyone is anxious, everyone is under a lot of pressure,” said Gurleen Gill, operations account manager with SGR Truck Lines.
She said that with being an essential service, workers at the trucking company experienced the pandemic in a different way than those who stayed home.
Drivers worked during the height of the pandemic, sometimes nervous to get out of their trucks. They feared bringing the virus home to their families. They drove on empty highways. They delivered precious cargo to help keep the supply chain going. Some even made life-saving deliveries of supplies to hospitals, said Gill.
“We wanted to not only deliver essential freight, but a message of hope,” she said, explaining that the message on the trailer aims to raise awareness about the mental health pressures that many people have undergone through the past two years.
It reads: “Some of the best days of our lives haven’t happened yet … keep moving forward.”
“This quote is meant to motivate and inspire the reader to move forward,” she said, explaining that the trailer is being used on routes that span the full stretch of Highway 401 across southern Ontario and into the American Midwest.
Gill said the wrap even has a positive impact for drivers, who have told her they’re proud to pull a trailer with this message.
“It’s a conversation starter,” she said, explaining that it sometimes changes the tone of interactions at different stops.
“You never know what people are going through,” she said, adding that the company plans to wrap a few more trailers. “If it changes a person’s life, why not?”
