Today's pickups can haul more than dump trucks built 100 years ago. I'm amazed how things have changed in my short lifetime. 20 hp tractors were the workhorses. One row corn pickers. Then picker shellers. In 1955 dad bought a JD 45 2 row combine Also bought a JD square baler. 1960 Dad bought his only new tractor, a piece of junk, Ford 6000. A 60 hp Ford tractor was the biggest tractor I had seat time on.
I still live in the country, I don't farm. I'm amazed to see what today's farmers get done in a half day may have taken us weeks. Today I see 3 semis parked along the road when one combine is at work. One combine keeps 3 semis busy hauling grain about 10 miles to town.
I see Mega $ invested in farm equipment. Makes my head spin just thinking of the investment farmers make in my neighborhood. New Green or Red equipment isn't cheap.
A distant relative owns a trucking company and he spends big bucks on Diesel. I think it will be a matter of economics how fast EV semis are on the road.
I'll bet someday gas and diesel will be priced out of reach by adding a Carbon tax.
One thing for certain, nothing remains the same and change is happening at an accelerated rate.
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