Daryl Boeren and his friends from Boekel were already at the Ukrainian border for the third time on Friday morning with two full vans to deliver stuff. On the two previous occasions, the cargo was left in Poland. “Then we just have to wait and see whether the goods arrive at the right place.”
That is why the club from Boekel planned to drive on to Lviv this time. But it didn’t come to that this time either. At the border crossing at Medyka on the Ukrainian border there was a queue. “We stood still for hours. First the coaches were allowed to pass, then the cars. In addition, they have a strict passport control in connection with people smuggling,” Daryl describes the situation.
“In Ukraine you have to improvise every now and then.”
This time the delivery vans from Boekel were filled with food and medication. “On Thursday we loaded ten more roll containers at the Supercoop in Boekel. Then we immediately left for Ukraine. We had arranged everything well in advance for the delivery of the goods. But we now know that in Ukraine you have to improvise every now and then.”
At the beginning of the afternoon, the two vans from Boekel finally reached the customs post. After passport control, it turned out that the goods in the vans were not allowed to be transported to Lviv.
Daryl and his friends tried to deliver their cargo with a Ukrainian driver. But there is also a stop to it. “We have decided to leave the load on the Polish side and drive back to the Netherlands. That is a drive of about fifteen hours.”
“I was partying while there was a war. That ate me.”
The trips from Boekel to Ukraine have already cost Daryl some days off. “The first time was shortly after Carnival. I drank and partied for four days, while a war was going on elsewhere. I saw the fleeing mothers with their children and all the other misery on TV. That ate me. I wanted to do something about it. . These rides give me a lot of satisfaction.”
