A review of End of the Road in The American Conservative

 Gord Magill is angry. The veteran trucker followed in the occupational footsteps of his father and grandfather, but they would barely recognize the trucking of today. Technologies like electronic logging devices and automatic transmissions have “castrated” truckers (his word, not mine); in some states, commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) are handed out like candy to poorly trained drivers; emission mandates have created endless hassle for drivers and bean-counters alike. Yet Magill is most angry about the people who have died in preventable truck crashes, a number of whom were killed by truck drivers imported from countries like India and Serbia who could barely read English road signs.

The truck driver is no longer viewed as a skilled worker, and that’s a problem for everyone on the road, Magill (an occasional American Conservative contributor) writes in his debut book, End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers, published by brand-new indie outfit Creed & Culture. Part memoir, part investigation, End of the Road busts myths around industry regulations that Magill claims were created by bureaucrats with little to no understanding of what truckers do day to day..

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