I doubt that many here hate trucks as their livelihood is intertwined with over the highway trucking. The article really reiterates what we have known and perhaps seen for decades now. There are many poor automobile drivers out there and the numbers will only get worse over time as people increasingly are aggressive in every aspect of their lives.
I doubt there are very many left of the stereotypical 1970's trucker who keeps an open bottle of whiskey or pep pills or both next to him. Trucker conduct would have to be good to remain employed in the industry. Accidents cost trucking companies money and traffic tickets are increasingly pawned off on the truckers themselves.
I don't know how a great many do it when a person is away from home for great lengths of time. Seeing the "country" just would not excite me enough to do it. Also, my back has a habit of acting up at the most inopportune times. I have been fortunate that when my back has bothered I did not have a pressing obligation to force the issue.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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