Ep 192: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Trucker
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Status of Truck Drivers Has Diminished Over the Decades
In the eighties when his father started driving trucks, the status of truckers was very different from what it is now. Trucking has lost some of the skill because power stearing and all these other things have come to it. And at the same time, truckers, in a sense, are much more cut off from the world than these sort of villagers. So there's this immense sense of frustration whereim, i have walked all my life. It's leve dead in job, right? There's no avenue to go op yo. Once you start,. Or as a trup driver, it's not like you an implement or there will be any sort of change in your designation
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