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The book contained a profile of a trucker named Lynn Riles, where the author rode with her for a week to understand the shipping and logistics behind groceries. The transcript detailed shocking revelations about the trucker's life, including immense debt and exploitation within the long-haul trucking industry.
In The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lord has a profile on a trucker that he rode with for a week while he was trying to learn about the shipping and logistics that go into our groceries.
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The book contained a profile of a trucker named Lynn Riles, where the author rode with her for a week to understand the shipping and logistics behind groceries. The transcript detailed shocking revelations about the trucker's life, including immense debt and exploitation within the long-haul trucking industry.
In The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lord has a profile on a trucker that he rode with for a week while he was trying to learn about the shipping and logistics that go into our groceries.
In The Secret Life of Groceries, Lohr writes, The trucker is constantly on edge, recalculating braking distance based on the load, expecting and then reacting to major equipment failure, tensing up at the slightest precipitation in a manner that simply has no analog in the modern car.