In Michigan, I would pick up auto glass and drive it to Green Bay, and in Green Bay I’d pick up paper products and bring them to Mobile, Alabama. For an average of 90 hours a week, his truck’s 53-foot trailer hauled a mishmash of material: pillows, steel coils-anything a pallet could hold. In 2005, he spent six months working for a for-hire carrier. Viscelli, who will be a Robert and Penny Fox Family Pavilion Scholar and a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy this fall, knows a thing or two about trucking beyond penning a book about it. “That’s long haul, meaning you’re driving more than 150 miles.” “Within that, the biggest employer is what’s called truckload general freight,” he says. In fact, according to Steve Viscelli, author of The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dreamand a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, it’s the No. More than 3 million people drive trucks in the United States.
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