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Stuck in Reverse - American Compass

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Nearly every element of every thing produced by a modern economy rides on a truck at some point in its life. As a result, trucking touches every industry in America, leaving truckers at the forefront of the nation’s economic turmoil over many decades. The job they perform, and the quality of that job especially, can serve as an important indicator of the American worker’s well-being. In a sane world, economists would spend as much time at the annual Mid-America Truck Show in Louisville, Kentucky as they spend each winter in Davos. MATS, as the regulars call it, typically sees over 55,000 attendees descend on the massive Kentucky Exposition Center complex, many of them truckers who bring their rigs and camp out in them over the three days of conferencing and festivities. An extraordinary feature of the event, to which it owes much of its popularity, is its cost. Register months in advance and it’s free. Miss that cutoff, the ticket skyrockets to $10, a price that most working-class peop

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