"Nobody from the company called. There wasn't one."
He was an owner-operator, just him and the truck, no fleet, no employer group policy. Thirty-one years behind the wheel, and when the heart attack happened at a truck stop outside Amarillo, his wife didn't get a call from HR. She got a call from the shop that had his rig on the hook.
He was 58. Careful, experienced, never missed a DOT physical. It wasn't recklessness. It was just the job catching up to him, the way it does to a lot of drivers his age.
She still had a truck payment coming out of the business account, a mortgage with fifteen years left on it, and no group life certificate to fall back on.
That's the gap this coverage exists to close. Company drivers and owner-operators both, at every age and every mile marker, coverage that stays yours no matter who you're leased to or which company you drive for.