Nearly every element of every thing produced by a modern economy rides on a truck at some point in its life. As a result, trucking touches every industry in America, leaving truckers at the forefront of the nation’s economic turmoil over many decades. The job they perform, and the quality of that job especially, can serve as an important indicator of the American worker’s well-being. In a sane world, economists would spend as much time at the annual Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville, Kentucky as they spend each winter in Davos.
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