America’s long-haul truckers were already struggling. Then came $5 diesel

By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN New York (CNN) — Jamie Hagen believed the Great Freight Recession was finally over. Last year was a tough one for his South Dakota trucking company, Hell Bent Xpress. He was thinking about shutting down, his cash drained in the lean years that followed America’s post-pandemic shopping spree. But he refinanced