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TRUCKER'S STORY * USA - Economy adds miles of pressure for trucking
Brownsville,TX,USA -The Brownsville Herald, by Kevin Sieff -October 29, 2008: -- When Albert Sosa drove his first truck across the United States in 1975, he knew he had found his calling. "It was exciting," he said. "Gas was cheap, the money was good and trucking was the backbone of America"... Thirty years later, trucking is still the lifeblood of the U.S. economy, Sosa says. But the career is no longer as profitable as it once was. Rising gas prices and exploitative contracts have eaten into truckers' incomes, he said... Sosa is in plentiful company: There are about 2.1 million truckers in the United States, according to a 2000 estimate by the American Trucking Association. And all of them are being affected by rising diesel costs... Without such assistance, Sosa said, he is forced to make critical sacrifices. "I can either fix my tires, or I can buy groceries," he said... And without a free-flowing fleet of independent truckers, the economy as a whole could suffer... At the Olmito pump, Sosa shook his head... "Without us, nothing would get around," he said. "But we're left to watch these prices rise"... (Photo by G. Daniel Lopez/The Brownsville Herald - Trucker Albert Sosa fills his rig at a filling station in Olmito and says the price of fuel is eating much of his profits to the point where he now has no savings and hopes his truck does not breakdown because he can not afford to fix it)Labels: truckers' stories
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