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On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a trucker drives through the night to make an early-morning delivery. Read the full description.
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Intro: Truckers sometimes choose to work nights because it means less traffic. In this "On the Night Shift" segment, WFUV introduces us to a bleary-eyed trucker for McDonald's delivering the McGoods in the wee hours of the morning in Manhattan. Tag: This "On the Night Shift" segment was produced by WFUV News.
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Sarah Elzas
Posted on October 11, 2004 at 01:49 PM | Permalink
Review of Early Morning Delivery
Marty Smith tells us about delivering for McDonalds--his company delivers everything, from toilet paper to the fries. He talks clearly (not bleary-eyed at all, I found), with sounds of the his truck loading and unloading behind him. This is a straight-forward, non-narrated profile of a man who tells us about his job.