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Open Roads, Shuttered Rest Areas: How N.H. Truckers See the Pandemic

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While large sectors of the economy are shuttered at the moment, there are still plenty of products to ship, and goods to deliver to peoples’ homes.

Truckers, a loud but often invisible piece of the market, are in the middle of those transactions, logging thousands of miles back and forth across New England.

NHPR reached out to a few—Dan Schweitzer, Steve Brochu and Kevin Perrier—to see how the open road looks to them, in the middle of a pandemic:

Todd started as a news correspondent with NHPR in 2009. He spent nearly a decade in the non-profit world, working with international development agencies and anti-poverty groups. He holds a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University.
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