New York City — Every time Jorge Badilla shifts into gear, he's sitting in the driver's seat of an industry that's running on fumes.

According to the American Trucking Association, the industry is currently facing a shortage of about 60,000 drivers.

With each mile, the 48-year-old Badilla is filling a critical need and mapping out a future he never thought he'd have.

"I have an opportunity to do something positive for my life," Badilla told CBS News. "It feels great to be free."

Freedom is especially meaningful to Badilla, who spent nearly a decade in federal prison for selling drugs from a housing project in New York City's Queens borough.

"The FBI agent had his gun pointed to my face," Badilla said of his arrest. "...I didn't see the daylight for the next nine years."

While in pri

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