Jérémy Soots, 31, is the fourth French truck driver in a wheelchair. Seven years after a motorcycle accident which severed his spinal cord and left him paraplegic, he has finally reconnected with his lifelong passion: driving trucks.
“I started working as a truck driver when I was 18. I never saw myself doing anything else,” says the young man, originally from Pas-de-Calais (62) Thanks to a lifting platform that allows him to get into his truck, steering wheel controls and a remote dumpster loading and unloading system, the driver was able to get back on the road last January.