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TRUCKERS STORIES * Brazil
A Bumpy Ride on a Brazilian Highway, and Long Waits at Either EndRondonópolis,Brazil -The New York Times (New York,NY), by JOSHUA SCHNEYER & ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO -April 6, 2007: -- For thousands of truck drivers working Brazil’s biggest soybean export routes, the road is full of potholes the size of large pizzas... Manoel Requena, 48, has made many all-night hauls. A southern Brazilian, Mr. Requena has spent most of 30 years driving a long-haul rig. Drivers like himself, he said, are in such demand that they generally work 30 days before taking 5 days off... To keep trucking, Mr. Requena and other drivers rely on a concoction of guarana syrup, black coffee and Coca-Cola, and, when heavy drowsiness sets in, they add toothpaste to the mix. Some drivers inevitably turn to more powerful stimulants... Two years ago, Mr. Requena’s driving partner fell asleep at the wheel. The crash left Mr. Requena unconscious for the 10 hours it took for rescuers to arrive and free him. His partner was thrown from the rig but lived. Mr. Requena was ordered by doctors to stay off the road for 18 months... (Photo by Lalo de Almeida for The New York Times - A driver prepares his dinner at an improvised kitchen in his truck while waiting for a load of soybean meal in Rondonopolis. Some trucks wait in line for more than 24 hours)
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