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Amid a record driver shortage, Indian-American Sikhs are taking to trucking

by Maggie Mullen

Mar 7, 2019

In the last two years, one demographic has been gravitating towards the trucking industry by the thousands: Indian-American Sikhs.

Mintu Pandher sits inside the cab of his rig at the truck stop he bought a few years ago in southeastern Wyoming. He joined the industry because it was a blue-collar job that didn’t interfere with his Sikh beliefs and traditions.

Maggie Mullen/Marketplace

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