“I figure that my severance is the unemployment I just filed for,” Mark Roper, a truck driver for 32 years, told CNN. “But they’re not telling us anything.”
Since Sunday, Mark Roper, a truck driver for 32 years, has been out of a job, along with 30,000 of his fellow workers atRoper, who turns 59 in October, said he’s not ready to retire and has already started applying for jobs elsewhere.
“I figure that my severance is the unemployment I just filed for,” he told CNN. “But they’re not telling us anything.” The grueling life away from home is why Roper would prefer to stay away from that segment of the industry, though he said he’ll take the job there if it comes to that.
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