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 a.m. 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 al

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