00:00Thinking about changing the job, that's the thought that we all have right now.
00:07Kiratsimaran Dool has been stranded at a gas station in the town of Ripley, New York, for almost 24 hours.
00:14A trucker was supposed to cross the Peace Bridge into Fort Erie at 1 a.m. Thursday.
00:19But an outage at the Canada Border Services Agency has left him and tens of thousands of other truckers across Canada stranded in the United States.
00:28We saw some of our company truck. They are here for at least almost two days.
00:34It's hard sometimes just waiting here and guessing game, like when you're just going to be clear.
00:42Dool says dozens of other Canada-bound trucks have also stopped at this gas station along the I-90, waiting for the delays to end.
00:50His colleagues that are stuck at the peace border queue have reportedly run out of food with no access to washroom.
00:56We're seeing trucks stuck for over 24 hours.
00:59In some cases, truck drivers being fed by bridge authorities because they've been sitting and waiting on the U.S. side for so long.
01:08The CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance says delays are being seen nationwide, but are worse at Ontario crossings.
01:16Port authorities at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie and the Lewiston-Queenston crossing in Niagara Falls
01:20have both instructed commercial carriers to avoid the area because their queues are at capacity.
01:26In a statement to Global News, the CBSA said the outage began Sunday morning and was fully resolved by Tuesday afternoon,
01:33but that commercial carriers may still continue to experience delays.
01:37Stephen Laskowski says outages at crossings have been an ongoing issue for years, despite a federal pledge to invest in borders.
01:45It is puzzling, incredibly puzzling, troubling, frustrating to not understand why that investment hasn't gone on to the IT systems
01:55and why it hasn't continued.
01:57For now, truckers like Dual are playing a waiting game for when they can finally return home.
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