Fast Trucking Service, a well-servicing company that specializes in moving drilling rigs and hauling other fraccing equipment, recently had to lay off 250 of their total of 350 staff members. The company has been in business since 1957.

In light of this, Dennis Day, who runs the company, wanted to do something to support his employees who had to be laid off.

Many of the employees are facing extreme financial hardships, and after seeing one of them in the grocery store only able to afford a few small items to feed himself with, Day knew he had to help.

"I thought we should give them a gift card to help make it through until they got a unemployment cheque"

"On Monday I called up the CO-OP and asked if I could get $50,000 giftcards I could give to my guys and I went and picked them up and brought them home and made a letter up to all of the guys from our family and they were sent out Tuesday- I actually went and handed some of them out myself that day. I had over a hundred texts from people the next day."

He said that it feels really good to be able to help people when you can, and that his guys deserved it.

"Our guys work really hard of us and do a good job. We've always been like that, not just helping our guys out but helping everybody out."

Day said many people were comparing him to his father, and said this is exactly what he would have done.

For Day, having a sense of community is important.

"It's huge, you know when you have somebody calling you and balling because he couldn't believe you would do something like that for them."

He said he can't guarantee that all of his laid off employees will be able to come back to work with how bad things have gotten.

Day wishes he could help out more, but said they are looking at upwards have two years now with little to no work.

In the 60 plus years the business has been running, he said nothing like we are experiencing has ever happen, and even when the world gets back to normal, it won't be the same normal we were accustomed to.