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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:08.2 | Kimberly Sikorski is a long haul truck driver. |
| 0:11.2 | Right now I'm in Booneville, Missouri at a pilot truck stop. |
| 0:16.2 | So I'm in the cab. |
| 0:17.4 | Kimberly is in the sleeper area. |
| 0:18.8 | Basically, if there's a tiny apartment behind the driver's seat of these big trucks, |
| 0:22.8 | separated from the front by a curtain. |
| 0:24.5 | But when you close that center curtain, what matters is what's behind it because that's |
| 0:28.8 | your home. |
| 0:29.8 | So, it's where you spend the majority of your time. |
| 0:32.6 | Kimberly has a little fridge back there. |
| 0:34.3 | There's a slide out table, bunk beds. |
| 0:36.7 | That's where she sleeps every night when she's on the road. |
| 0:39.0 | She's been out for the last two weeks, picking up freight, dropping it off, picking up freight, |
| 0:43.5 | dropping it off. |
| 0:44.5 | I am taking Pepsi from the Costco warehouse in Illinois to a Costco store in Missouri. |
| 0:53.4 | Kimberly is from a desert town halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. |
| 0:57.8 | She's had a lot of jobs over the years. |
| 1:00.1 | She was a waitress. |
| 1:01.3 | She was a chloricidogastation. |
| 1:03.2 | She was a prison guard. |
| 1:04.9 | None of those jobs paid well. |
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