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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored: Trucker Supply Crisis? With Steve Viscelli
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The holidays are over, the Omicron wave is beginning to subside, but the “supply chain crisis” continues, and so this week we’re returning to our ongoing occasional series on the workers who make up that thing called the “supply chain.” We’re joined by Steve Viscelli, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies freight transportation—in other words, trucking. His book, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream, explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue-collar jobs to one of the toughest, and h...