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What's Your Story? Night-Shift Trucker Carlos Fernandez

KQED News Staff

Apr 12, 2013 at

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Carlos Fernandez lives in Woodlake, a small town in California's Central Valley. Now 68, he's spent the last four decades as a night-shift truck driver, hauling cement from Fresno to Victorville. As part of our occasional series "What's Your Story?" we hear from Fernandez about some tricks he uses to stay awake -- or catch some sleep -- while he's on the road.

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