Mobile life loneliness
Long-haul trucking means spending the majority of your working hours alone in a cab, moving through landscapes that nobody will share with you. You miss what happens at home. You arrive in places where you know no one. The job is physically demanding and mentally monotonous in ways that do not produce the social energy that might make connection easy in the brief windows when you are off the road.
The economics of trucking have changed the social world of it. The CB radio culture that once made long-haul driving a connected community has largely disappeared. Drivers now sit in automated silence for most of their hours on the road. The profession has high rates of depression and loneliness, and a cultural norm of not talking about it.
Coming home after a long haul can be its own kind of disconnection — you have been away, the family has adapted, and readjustment takes time you may not have before you leave again. The rhythm of absence and return is difficult for everyone in the household, including the driver.
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