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'In the Land of Hell':

Life as a Female Trucker in North Dakota

Video    Op-Docs    NYT    14 January 2014

A young woman,

lured to North Dakota for a truck-driving job in the oil industry,

shares her agonizing existence in an isolated boomtown.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO9eLksDv6k

USA > NPR podcast

road transport        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
road-transport

lorry

lorry container        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/23/
driver-arrested-
after-39-bodies-found-in-lorry-container-in-essex

refrigerated trailer        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/24/
essex-lorry-deaths-39-victims-were-chinese-nationals

lorry trade        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/02/
industrial-failure-uk-lorry-trade-truck-driver-squalor-low-pay-no-unions

truck        USA

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/23/
nx-s1-5084276/pedestrian-protection-bill-bigger-cars-trucks

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/22/
opinion/the-trucks-are-killing-us.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/
nyregion/22about.html

a truck that drives itself        USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/05/10/
405598189/coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-you-a-semi-truck-with-a-brain

semi-truck        USA

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/17/
564777998/tesla-unveils-its-electric-semi-truck-and-adds-a-roadster

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/05/10/
405598189/coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-you-a-semi-truck-with-a-brain

Tesla > Cybertruck

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/
tesla-wind-down-cybertruck-production-texas-gigafactory-next-year-
musk-says-2026-11-06/

18-wheeler        USA

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/27/
539711819/why-are-undocumented-migrants-smuggled-by-truck

https://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/05/10/
405598189/coming-soon-to-a-highway-near-you-a-semi-truck-with-a-brain

tanker        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/
us/philadelphia-i-95-collapse-vehicle-fire.html

tractor-trailer        USA

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/23/
538838253/8-dead-20-in-critical-or-serious-condition-found-
in-tractor-trailer-in-san-anton

trucker        USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/
opinion/
the-trucking-industry-wants-to-weaken-safety-rules.html

truck driver        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/02/
industrial-failure-uk-lorry-trade-truck-driver-squalor-low-pay-no-unions

driver        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/
upshot/the-trucking-industry-needs-more-drivers-
it-should-try-paying-more.html

trucking industry        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/
upshot/the-trucking-industry-needs-more-drivers-
it-should-try-paying-more.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/14/
opinion/the-trucking-industry-wants-to-weaken-safety-rules.html

haulier

garbage hauler        USA

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/
business/media/07adco.html

haulage industry

haulage firms        UK

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/15/
haulage-firms-to-sue-home-office-over-migrant-fines

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