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Driving Europe

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Increasing reliance on road transport in Europe highlights the deteriorating working conditions and wage exploitation faced by truck drivers across the continent.

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Increasing reliance on road transport in Europe highlights the deteriorating working conditions and wage exploitation faced by truck drivers across the continent.

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Felix Längedirector

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More and more goods are being transported on Europe's roads, yet work conditions for truck drivers are getting worse and worse. Exploitative dependency and wage dumping. A broken system! The film relentlessly exposes how disenfranchisement has become the norm.

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