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Interviewing Truck Drivers at a Crossroads
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 May 24, 2017 | JOBS | …Truck drivers are everywhere on our highways, undergirding the American economy, but most of us know little about their work and personal lives beyond musty stereotypes from the days of CB radio. Most truckers were quick to disabuse me of any notion that life on the open road holds romantic allure. I got interested in truck driving while reporting an earlier story about what became of 600 unionized workers at an Alcoa aluminum plant in Indiana that closed down. A number found jobs in trucking, which has a perpetual HELP Wanted sign out. They soon learned the pay ways nowhere near as good, and the lifestyle – keeping them away from home for weeks at a time was brutal… nytimes.com Related: Trucking and blue-collar woes
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