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What Do Truck and Transportation Drivers Do? Truck and Transportation Drivers and Infrastructure At this moment, hundreds of thousands of truck drivers are transporting fresh produce and packaged goods to grocery stores so that we have food on our tables each morning. Others are driving iron and other raw materials, semiconductors , and a variety of other materials and machine parts to factories so that cars, computers, and other products can be manufactured. Still others are delivering packages to your doorstep. And let’s not forget the bus and other transportation drivers who are safely taking passengers from point to point in a city or town, or driving them across the country. These professional drivers of semi-tractor trailers, tanker trucks, delivery trucks, buses, taxi cabs, and other vehicles play a major role in making our world function efficiently. Truck drivers transport more than 80 percent of all freight each year, according to the American Trucking Associations (ATA). An ATA-conducted study found that

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