Christmas on the highway: truck drivers receive surprise bags!

Christmas on the highway: truck drivers receive surprise bags!

In a warm gesture, truck drivers were surprised at the rest areas along the A6 with Christmas gifts on the first Christmas holiday. Voluntary helpers from the group from Kammerstein distributed lovingly packed bags with rescued food, homemade cookies and hygiene articles to the drivers who are locked up during the holidays during the holidays. This reported Br.de , when Jens Harzbecker and his team in Schwabach were on the road to give these people a little bit of Christmas joy.

Loneliness and hard conditions shape the life of truck drivers, who are often separated from their families for weeks. Many spend their weekends in their trucks in their trucks and are under immense deadline pressure. Despite a cut wage of around 3,000 euros in Germany, salaries for international drivers, especially from Eastern European countries, are often significantly lower and rarely amount to more than 1,500 euros. This makes the "Nikolaus in the cab" campaign, which was launched on December 8, 2024 by the KAB in the diocese of Münster. Santa Clauses are distributed to the drivers in parking spaces in order to appreciate their work and draw attention to their difficult living conditions, as can be read in kab-muenster.de

As part of this initiative, not only the needs of the drivers are addressed, but also addresses to politics in order to improve their conditions sustainably. Stephan Eisenbart, KAB state secretary, explained that the goal is to counter the drivers respect and recognition for their essential work and to enter into specifically for "the same wages for the same work". Such actions are a step in the right direction to draw attention to the often precarious situation in which many truck drivers live.