The profession of long haul trucking is vital to our nation’s commerce.  As a career choice, many of us might think of it as one we would never pick because it can be lonely and unsettling as to a normal home life.  Some choose it because they like the open road and others because they are repressing certain needs that a less isolated existence might reveal. The darkest underbelly of the profession has demanded the establishment of a new unit within the FBI. It’s called the Highway Serial Killers Initiative.  This special unit has linked 850 killings to long haul truckers.  Frank Figliuzzi, who is now retired from the FBI, and its former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, was stunned to realize that these killings were so pervasive so he set out to understand the subcultures involved in the trucking community, that of its victims, basically female sex workers often dispossessed by their families, and the group of agents in the special FBI unit dedicated to trying to stop this grisly practice.  He explains what he discovered and revealed in his book “Long Haul.” His acumen in the art and science of investigations is well on display in this podcast.