Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio
In July last year, long-haul truck driver Stephanie Klang got a rare speeding ticket because she was too engrossed listening to public radio. “It’s okay, I only get a speeding ticket about once every 10 years,” she said. “… It was worth it for the story.” She told the state patrolman that yes, she knows listening to the radio is not a valid excuse, then proceeded to tell him all about the radio show that took her mind off her speed — an episode of BackStory about the history of taxes in the U.S. after the country had just broken away from England.
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