The Hidden Lives Of Long-Haul Truckers
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REBECCA ROBERTS, host: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Rebecca Roberts, in Washington. Neal Conan is away. Maybe this has happened to you: You're driving down the highway. You have to pass a big rig, but you can't because another truck is in front of you and won't accelerate.
Or maybe a truck surges past you, cutting you off just before a merge. Cue the road rage, some colorful language, maybe you even reach out of a window, hand equipped with an indecent gesture.
When the whale of a semi surges past your minnow-sized car, it may not be your first instinct to consider the person in the cab. Dan Hanson, a fleet manager in Belle Plaine, Minnesota, wrote a piece for the Minneapolis Star Tribune explaining that there may be a lot of things going on in that driver's life, things you may not realize.
There are speed requirements and fuel regulations, delivery deadlines, not to mention personal issues that creep up during long stints on the road. Truck drivers, what's your life like on the road? Tell us your story. Our number is 800-989-8255. Our email address is talk@npr.org. And you can join the conversation at our website. Go to npr.org and click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program, we go to the next Freshman Read of the TALK OF THE NATION reading list, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Rebecca Skloot will join us. But first, the lives of long-haul truckers. Dan Hanson is a fleet manager at Q Carriers. It's a cross-country freight moving company based in Belle Plaine, Minnesota. His piece for the Star Tribune was called "That Truck Driver You Flipped Off, Let Me Tell You His Story." Dan Hanson joins us from a studio in Eagan, Minnesota. Welcome to the program.
DAN HANSON: Thank you.
ROBERTS: So, in your piece, you talk about one of your drivers, a man you named Harold, who is having a particularly bad day on the day you wrote this piece. Is that what inspired you to put pen to paper?
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