Truck driver in the Wales lives in his cab for five weeks to protect his family

For the last five weeks, the lorry driver from Carmarthenshire in Wales has been effectively working and living in a cab barely two metres wide.

Ben McKeown only contact with his three young children is a daily video call and a brief glimpse of them through a window when he returns home to drop off a bag of laundry.

The decision was taken by Mr McKeown and his partner out of fear that he would bring the coronavirus home after doing long-distance deliveries. Their youngest son was born 10 weeks premature and is just three months old.

He has had a couple of nights’ respite in a family friend’s caravan but otherwise has slept in the cab throughout the tumultuous time since lockdown.

Mr McKeown says he is lucky to have a boss who is very supportive of him and he has made the high-end lorry cab his own.

Mr McKeown is not seeking sympathy but would like an improved awareness of the sacrifices all delivery drivers, as key workers, are making.

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