Your driving you nice pretty Corvette,cruising down that big old interstate at 85 mile per hour,not a care in the world suddenly you are cut off by one of those dang nasty pain in the butt semi trucks! Curses! You stupid mother #@$%! Get out of my way!
Well you get past him after a long hard 2 1/2 miles at 72 miles per hour,you flip him off and act a fool! Then you head to the park for the car show,but you have to stop and get gas,a drink and a bag of chips everyday convince food. Yep CONVINCE.
So would you think of a truck as being convent? Most people out side of trucking would not,they really have no clue what things they use everyday is moved via a truck,sure the rail move stuff,but do you know today 87% of rail fright is moved on a rail container ? Do you know what those even are? Well pretty much they are a box that is put on a flat version of a train car. They are moved by a large crane and put on a chassis that is then locked down and looks like a truck trailer. Yet they are stilled moved via a truck.
Think about this one,right now you are reading this on your computer or even phone,you have a device that is made out of plastic and stuff,that plastic was made from oil and compounds,that was made in a warehouse some where in the world. Now as you sip your beverage well powered up on the computer that gets it's power from the power plant miles away,a truck brought that coal to dump in that hopper to burn,a utility crew put those power lines up with their trucks which is powered by the fuel that a tanker brought from a refiner some where,that was on a pipeline from some where as well,I think you get the point.
The news media can care less about the story of the average American truck driver,who has a family or sadly had a family that because of his job it split. They only care about the carnage of a wreck,"Truck Kills 3 in Wreck" and it turns out that it was a pick up,besides I have never seen a vehicle randomly kill,of course Steven King showed us that trucks can kill in Max mum Overdrive,but really the face that we have cars,trucks,motorcycles and stuff on the roads its,a virile part of the system,with every culture we will have some sort of transportation system.
I don't buy into "Without Trucks America Would Stop" because if that happened their would be something else,besides is anyone really going to shut down? No I don't think so. We just need to learn and deal with each other.
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