You're driving your nice, pretty, Corvette, cruising down that big old interstate at 85 miles 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. You have to stop and get gas, a drink, and a bag of chips everyday.
So would you think of a truck as being conventional? 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 moves stuff, but did you know today 87% of rail freight is moved on a rail container? Do you know what those even are? 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 truck.
Think about this one; right now you are reading this on your computer or even your phone. It is a device that is made out of plastic and other 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 somewhere; that was on a pipeline from somewhere 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 he lost to his lifestyle. They only care about the carnage of a wreck. The headline reads "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 Stephen King showed us that trucks can kill in "Maximum Overdrive," but, really the fact that we have cars, trucks, motorcycles and stuff on the roads. It's 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 there 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.
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. You have to stop and get gas, a drink, and a bag of chips everyday.
So would you think of a truck as being conventional? 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 moves stuff, but did you know today 87% of rail freight is moved on a rail container? Do you know what those even are? 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 truck.
Think about this one; right now you are reading this on your computer or even your phone. It is a device that is made out of plastic and other 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 somewhere; that was on a pipeline from somewhere 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 he lost to his lifestyle. They only care about the carnage of a wreck. The headline reads "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 Stephen King showed us that trucks can kill in "Maximum Overdrive," but, really the fact that we have cars, trucks, motorcycles and stuff on the roads. It's 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 there 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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