A life as a truck driver, between solitude and solidarity
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Truck driver, a lonely job where the rare interactions with the outside of the truck are done in roadside restaurants.
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By: Alexis Bedu Follow
21 mins
Confinement, curfew ... there is a profession that does not know those words, it is the truck drivers!
Always on the road, they have not stopped working since the start of the pandemic.
A lonely profession where the rare interactions with the outside of the truck take place in roadside restaurants, which are initially closed.
In France, 250 establishments reserved for drivers were authorized to reopen two months ago.
On the North motorway, between Paris and Lille, one of the largest of them has regained dynamism and vitality.
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“A life as a truck driver, between solitude and solidarity”, a major report by Alexis Bédu. Director: Pierre Chaffanjon.
(Program originally aired on January 29, 2021).
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