This combination of factors— low pay, high risk and low quality of life is driving a decline in the number of truck drivers. Truck drivers have been celebrated in the USA as the ones who criss-cross across the nation building the country’s GDP. They have been eulogised in songs and movies. The Indian driver is depicted as a hardworking, but, …
The Indian trucker is never romanticised by the press neither is he the object of mainstream society’s attention. Unknown to us he drives around rolling the economy forward without any want of recognition or accolades. The wheels of his toil are a subject of hardship and degradation and only he knows the journey and destination. He generates so much data …