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Moves everything you own, nobody notices until the shelves go empty.
means A person who drives a truck for a living, typically hauling freight long distances over highways.
from Rooted in 'truck,' which traces back to Greek 'trokhos' (wheel) via Latin, then wound through meanings of barter and small wheeled carts before settling on the big-rig vehicle by the early 1900s. Add the agent suffix '-er' and you get the person behind the wheel — a job title that only became a household word once highways and diesel engines made long-haul freight possible.
- work limit
- US law caps driving at 11 hours daily
- economy share
- 72 percent of US freight moves by truck
- solo lifestyle
- weeks living alone in a moving bedroom
- job shortage
- industry short roughly 60000 drivers yearly