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Who recommended it
- Lex Fridman Discussed
Lex Fridman — 1 mention
Discussed
“the following is a conversation with steve vaseli formerly a truck driver and now a sociologist at the university of pennsylvania who studies freight transportation his first book the big rig trucking in the decline of the american dream explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue collar jobs to one of the toughest”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
- Memories and Machines: the Pattern of My Life
- Panorama of Nations, Or, Journeys Among the Families of Men
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“his first book the big rig trucking in the decline of the american dream explains how long-haul trucking went from being one of the best blue collar jobs to one of the toughest”
Own book
“i do think the my first book was a success as you know relative to my goals of trying to really you know get at the heart of of sort of the central issues and and the lives being led by people”