Truckers get remote help from Central Asia
by editors@theworld.org (Levi Bridges) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6RT87)
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, all the stuff people ordered online - from stationary bikes to toilet paper - drove up demand for delivery services, which required more drivers, many of them, immigrants. And that gave rise to a new kind of business, on the other side of the globe. Call centers, in Central Asia, providing remote help to truckers in the US, as they zig-zag their way across the country. Levi Bridges reports from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.