![]() ![]() I filled out an application and they sent me a bus ticket, then went to their training school.”īeing on the road meant Viscelli could experience the life and also interview truckers much more naturally than just showing up at a truck stop with pen and paper. ![]() “I signed up like anybody else, through one of the big companies. Viscelli found his way into a cab full-time. It’s hard to understand what that’s like until you actually do it.” You have to, like, be on the highway for that 4th of July weekend. It’s so physically challenging it takes over your whole life. You can’t get a sense of what truck driving is like just talking to people. “I had to do that work in order to legitimately interview drivers. When Steve Viscelli decided to write his 2016 book, The Big Rig: Trucking & the Decline of the American Dream, which he explained is an academic work that many readers have found informative, entertaining and mainstream, he knew he had to get behind the wheel of a Class 8 to truly understand the driving profession. ![]()
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