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Being on the road during the Depression was hard and often dangerous. Truck drivers were paid to make their schedule, not to sleep, so long haul trucking meant long hours at the wheel without rest !V sometimes thousands of miles at a stretch.
Wages were low, overtime pay was poor or non existent, and state safety regulations afforded drivers little protection.
One of the most important figures to come out of that movement was James R. Hoffa, who shaped the history of the nation!|s most powerful labor union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Now Jack Nicholson and director/co-star Danny DeVito bring to file David Marnet!|s gripping screenplay Hoffa? Nicholson plays the powerful Teamster boss, whose turbulent career is followed over the sweep of lour decades !Vfrom his passionate struggle for power to his final enigmatic fall....
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