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Ooooh, yes, I understand now. When I was thinking of truckers as American Figures, I wasn't thinking so much of regular characters who happen to be truckers, like sheriffs and widowers, and to some extent clerical types. I was thinking of the American Icon, the Trucker, who was a USian libertarian hero of sorts in the 1970s and early 1980s, but not, I think, any more. And now, as you say, truckers are just people. And "trucker" has relatively little resonance in itself.