The long haul

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Finn Murphy recounts his working life as a long-distance mover, hauling families’ possessions across the United States and entering homes at moments of departure, upheaval, and reinvention. Routes along the I-95 corridor, through Florida and Midwestern truck stops, and over the Rocky Mountains reveal both the physical demands of the job and the economic forces reshaping it. Murphy observes customers through the intimate evidence of what they own, while reflecting on drivers, crews, roadside culture, and the shrinking security of working-class labor. Part travel narrative and part occupational memoir, The Long Haul examines mobility from the perspective of a worker responsible for carrying other people’s lives from one place to another.

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