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What other jobs did you work before this one?

I did have worked for a city bus, and I came back to trucking.

I want to say four years ago, and even my son, when he was little, I had

showed in a truck. And he said, my mama driving a truck. I'm like, yeah, the bills got to be paid,

baby. I saw it as a way to get my bills paid, and it seemed to have some enjoyment about it,

I thought. And it does.

We just need better pay.

This is Maxine.

She is a 60-year-old long-haul truck driver based in North Carolina.

How big is the truck?

Oh, this is a 53-foot trailer.

Oh, that's really big, right? That's it.

Yeah. Do people ask you to honk your horn all the time? Sometimes, especially babies, and I don't mind.

I've had babies myself. They're all grown and grandbabies. I don't mind. I love everybody's babies. Maxine took time off for a few other jobs, but she's been trucking off and on for different companies since 2004.

She's driven routes all over the country, but right now she works what's called a dedicated route,

which means she's always delivering

home goods for a specific company through the same stretch of the country.

We talked on the phone before she headed out from North Carolina for her next drive to

South Carolina and then on to Louisiana.

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