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At a time when everyone has come to value their grocery and toilet paper supply more, the people largely responsible for moving those products to Saskatchewan’s grocery stores are facing a challenge of their own: a lack of open washrooms and restaurants.

As truck drivers continue to haul goods to meet residents’ needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the places they would formerly stop for a quick bathroom break or a bite to eat are now closed.

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Darrell Wrishko, a driver with Bison Transport, said it has been “quite a challenge to find some washrooms.”

As a regional driver who does a lot of hauling around southern Saskatchewan and up to Saskatoon, Wrishko said he normally uses the washrooms at the company where he is loading or unloading his trailer. In most places, that’s no longer a possibility.

“You don’t have access to the building, period, with a lot of the customers … We’re sitting at a dock for sometimes an hour, two hours, and they have the access to the facility closed right off,” he said.