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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1940
Page
8
A portrait of truckers and their work across the nation. The narrative follows men who ply the highways day and night transporting goods from furniture to machinery, highlighting both the pleasures and griefs of a life on the road.
A reporter travels with Bill Dillon and Ira Bottoms of Reliable Trucking, detailing a cross country run with 12 000 pounds of furniture. The piece covers sleeper cabins, coffee breaks, long hours, payoffs of fast food, mosquito swarms in New Jersey, the lie book practice, grouchy customers, and trucker culture including the Strand Hotel bull sessions and sights along the way.
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