Trucks at the Railroad Pass Travel Centre in Henderson, Nevada. The Trump administration’s effort to reduce the number of accidents involving large trucks has taken aim at deficient truck driving schools and tightened a rule requiring that drivers are proficient in English. — Mikayla Whitmore/The New York Times
THE phone vibrated just as Arash Singh curled onto a mattress in the sleeper cab of his semi-truck, parked in a lot off Interstate 5 in Northern California.
As on most evenings, his parents were calling at the start of their day in a tiny village in Punjab, India.
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