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The Freewheelers * USA - Boomers have discovered the joys of truckdriving
New York,NY,USA -Newsweek, by Jemimah Noonoo -1 July 2008: -- When Daniel Cruz, 57, lost his job counseling HIV patients last year, he hoped to find a new job in the social services, where he had worked for more than two decades. But after several months of interviews, nothing came up. One afternoon, while hunting for jobs online, he saw an ad for a driving position with Schneider National Trucking, the nation's largest trucking carrier. He decided to apply, though he'd never been behind the wheel of anything larger than a minivan, and joined a growing number of baby boomers who are breaking free of office life to become truckdrivers on the open road. "I don't want to be sitting behind a desk anymore," Cruz says. "I did that for too many years."... At Schneider, the number of drivers 50 and over has increased by 46 percent since 2005—they now make up one third of its driving staff of 15,000. Others are starting to follow Schneider's lead. At Watkins and Shepard Trucking of Helena, Mont., the number of drivers over 50 has steadily increased in the past few years. And hits on GetTrucking.com, a recruiting Web site that targets drivers older than 50 and minorities, have gone from 500 to about 4,000 per week over the past few months...
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