- Truck drivers often work hours long enough to equal two full-time jobs.
- A lot of that time is unpaid, spent waiting outside ports and warehouses for their loads.
- We followed a truck driver as he traveled cross-country to join a protest against vaccine mandates.
More than 3 million people drive trucks in the US, but the job is no longer the golden ticket it once was to a middle-class life. At the start of the pandemic, truck drivers were celebrated as frontline workers, but now many of them say they feel forgotten again.
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