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TRUCKING SCHOOLS * USA - Driven to try for a new job on the road
The unemployed are clamoring for a chance at motoring through a desert sunrise for $40,000 a year... But while workers seek refuge in the cab of a Peterbilt, the trucking industry is feeling its own pinch. More than 3,000 trucking companies with five or more drivers tanked in 2008
Raleigh,NC,USA -The Associated Press/The Trucker, by JOSH SHAFFER -25 March 2009: -- Every student at Carolina Trucking Academy was either laid-off or fed-up, so they lined up to take nerve-racking turns driving an 18-wheeler in reverse — all betting that life as a trucker will make a sweet Plan B... The News & Observer of Raleigh reported that the idea of big-rig travel has pushed enrollment up 30 percent at some North Carolina trucking schools, even as driver jobs dwindle. The unemployed are clamoring for a chance at motoring through a desert sunrise for $40,000 a year... Check the students at Charlie Gray’s academy in south Raleigh and there’s not one stereotypical chaw-chomper in the bunch: ... They all imagine a new life viewed through the windshield of a 75-foot rig...
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