Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Sept. 11, 2021. FreightWaves has updated it and is republishing it for this year’s remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
On the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, truck driver Russell Vereen reflects on the 205 days he spent working at a refrigerated trailer morgue at ground zero, ensuring the trailers were fueled and running and storing the remains that medical personnel worked tirelessly to identify.
At the time, Vereen was leased to Bennett...
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