What Drives Your Road Rage?
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The longest trip that I have taken was probably 2,500 miles. |
| 0:11.0 | That was Fontana, California, to Florida. |
| 0:16.8 | For most of us, driving is a way to get from point A to point B. But for Kayla Chavez, |
| 0:23.1 | it's a way of life. |
| 0:24.6 | I am a truck driver over the road truck driver. Over the road truck drivers are truck drivers |
| 0:31.4 | who travel all 48 states and they're on, you know, over the road for 2 to 3 weeks and they |
| 0:39.4 | go home for a week. |
| 0:42.9 | A few years ago at the age of 25, Kayla, quit her job as a flight attendant and made a |
| 0:48.1 | life-changing decision to buy her very own truck. She got the idea from a boyfriend, |
| 0:53.8 | who's now her co-driver. And today, they travel the country together. |
| 0:58.6 | Our truck is called Riggy Smalls. Because our truck is very tiny compared to every other |
| 1:07.0 | truck around us. He is so precious and so beautiful. |
| 1:12.2 | We caught up with Kayla while she was parked safely, headed truck stop in California, getting |
| 1:17.3 | ready for a two-day trip to Texas. That's actually a shorter trip for Kayla. And because |
| 1:22.4 | she spends a lot of time on the road, Kayla's truck feels like home. |
| 1:28.2 | Here's my bed and you have this little fridge here. And this is where I'm setting the computer. |
| 1:35.3 | I don't know if you could see it. And then we just have the cab up here. |
| 1:41.2 | But even though Kayla loves her job and she gets a thrill from being behind the wheel, |
| 1:46.4 | life on the road has its challenges. From high fuel costs, $6.85 is the diesel price. |
| 1:55.0 | To crowded roadways. There's this one time where I was stuck in traffic |
| 1:58.8 | for like four or five hours. And I'm not even talking about the traffic moving like an |
| 2:04.2 | end. I'm talking about complete stop. |
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