Truckers Fuel Up, Earn Stamps

Move over homemakers. The 99-year-old Sperry & Hutchinson Co., stung by the loss of much of its supermarket business over the last decade, is relying on truckers in the big rigs to dutifully collect stamps and redeem them for cash and merchandise.

Now, drivers of 18-wheelers constitute about 15 percent of the company’s business.

And of the approximately 2,000 businesses across the country that give stamps, about 300 of them are truck stops.