Trucking Was Once A Middle Class Job; Can It Still Be?

The movie The Irishman, along with Harvard Law Professor Jack Goldsmith’s new book on Jimmy Hoffa , is renewing interest in Hoffa, the Teamsters, and trucking. One theme of the book is that truck driving, in the decades after World War II, often served as a solid middle class job—enabling truckers to be homeowners and/or support a family on one income.