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Feb. 23, 2026 | TRUCKING INDUSTRY | (First part of a three-part series.) The truck driver exists in the American imagination as a weather-beaten rogue, a nomad alone on the open road armed with nothing but his rig and his wits. Long hours, grueling labor, and extended periods of isolation on the lonely stretches of highway that cross the expansive continental hinterlands. A sort of modern cowboy who occupies the liminal spaces that connect the centers of commerce and industry through thin ribbons of pavement. This image of the American trucker was once a distant memory but has re-emerged from the wreckage of deregulation. Continues at Just Cause Teamsters on Substack
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