He tells poignant, funny, and often haunting stories of the people he encounters on the job: a feisty hoarder in New Hampshire a Virginia homeowner raging when Murphy's truck accidentally runs down a stand of trees an ex-banker in Colorado who treats Finn and his crew with undisguised contempt a widow who needs Murphy to bring her archeologist husband's remains and relics to a Navajo burial ceremony in New Mexico. In The Long Haul, Murphy offers a trucker's-eye view of America on the move. Since then he's covered more than a million miles in his 18-wheeler, packing, loading, and hauling. More than 30 years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker.
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