‘Frustrating:’ Canadian trucker among thousands stuck in US after border outage

"In some cases, truck drivers are being fed by bridge authorities because they've been sitting and waiting on the US side for so long," the Canadian Trucking Alliance said Thursday

When Kiratsimran Deol joined the trucking industry, he never imagined he would be second-guessing his decision after a mere two years.

“I’m thinking about changing my job. This is the thought we’re all having right now,” he said.

For almost 24 hours, Deol and his colleague have been stuck at a gas station along the I-90 in the town of Ripley, New York.

The truckers, carrying goods into Canada, were supposed to cross the Peace Bridge into Fort Erie at 1 am Thursday.

But an IT outage experienced by the Canada Border Services Agency four days prior has left him, and tens of thousands of other truckers from across Canada, stranded in the United States.

“Its hard sometimes waiting here. its a guessing game when its going to be cleared … We heard some of our friends have been stuck for almost two days.” he told Global News.

Deol said they heard about the outage from their colleagues who are stuck in the queue at the Peace Bridge.

The pair decided to pull into a gas station on the I-90 and wait things out, while having access to nearby amenities.