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Fri-Dec-2024

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Celebrating Festivals on the Road: How Truckers Stay Connected to Home

For truckers in India, roads are mere highways or workspaces, yet that is hardly the case most times. Given the kind of taxing schedules and a lot of distances, family celebrations concerning festivals tend to be something many of them truly have to live with. But truckers have invented their own heartfelt and crazy ways of celebrating the festival with their people while on the road.

Technology holds a great commitment, and it is making a bridge between truckers and families. Video calls or instant messaging apps facilitate bringing each other spiritually through participating in prayers or even watching children light diyas at Diwali. A few minutes of video chat can even get someone to feel as if they are at home, parked far away on a highway.

Truck stops and dhabas become makeshift celebration sites rather often. Fellow truckers light diyas together, share sweets, and eat meals in honour of their festivals, and some dhabas tend to play festive music or cook special dishes just to create an atmosphere of home for truckers.

There are a few trucking companies that schedule routes allowing their drivers to celebrate festivals at home. Some offer small gifts, while others hand out bonuses just to acknowledge the hard work and sacrifice.

Even though truck drivers are away from home, a truck driver carries all the characteristics of one particular festival of India, that festival being celebrated in that case. Technology, community bonding with sheer resilience, holds the hope of preserving alive their relationship to home sulkily, usually stereotypically.