Behind the Story: On a search for Sikh truckers
5 years, 6 months ago

Behind the Story: On a search for Sikh truckers

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Late last year, I showed up at a gurdwara on a mission. Off Sikh Temple Way, the three-story concrete building with three white minarets is open daily for prayers yet rarely full. How a rural Oklahoma truck stop became a destination for Sikh Punjabis crossing America » There were truck wash operators and truck company owners. “I knew many Indians worked in 7-Elevens, liquor stores and gas stations before I came to America, but I had no idea about trucking,” said Pal. “I found out all about it while I was here.” Pal, who lives in Fontana and travels to Indiana three times a month to make shipments, offered to take us and Times video journalist Claire Collins in his rig for the trip east.

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Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway
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Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway

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MILAN, N.M. — It’s 7:20 p.m. when he rolls into Spicy Bite, one of the newest restaurants here in rural northwest New Mexico. A sign spray painted on a concrete roadblock for Spicy Bite, an Indian restaurant catering Sikh truck drivers in Milan, N.M. Singh prays inside his cab before leaving New Mexico for Oklahoma. Singh dines at Spicy Bite …

How a rural Oklahoma truck stop became a destination for Sikh Punjabis crossing America
5 years, 6 months ago

How a rural Oklahoma truck stop became a destination for Sikh Punjabis crossing America

LA Times  

SAYRE, Okla. — Truck Stop 40 is easy to skip. “Fresh food.” Today, as the number of Sikh truckers has grown, dozens of no-frill highway stops selling food from India’s Punjab region have sprung up along U.S. interstates. Main Street in Sayre, Okla. “We don’t know anybody from town, but with Punjabi truckers we are famous,” says Harpreet Chhoker, 52, …

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