“The hard thing about my job is that you can be away from my family a lot,” says Atila, a truck driver of four years, who doesn’t like to complain. But today, he says he’s got a lot less to complain about as, since November, he’s been driving for Trucksters, a Spanish startup that is trying to change the way that freight is transported.
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