oh of course I appreciate trucks, my brother’s father-in-law owns a trucking company. The amount of trucks passing you is a function of how much life is around you. They’re like red blood cells. I moved from Sourhern California to a very popular place with good schools and safe neighborhoods, cough-cough, and it seems like everyone followed me out here. Construction everywhere, and trucks galore. That being said, I think trucks and cars, especially in the numbers we have here in boom-town and at 70 mph, have no business driving together. I don’t drive on airport runways either.
Well, union demands helped drive jobs out of major manufacturing plants. For instance, the John Deere combine plant in IL is mostly an assembly facility. Nearly everything comes in from vendors. Finished parts take up more space, usually require special crates or boxes, and come from who know where (last I knew the final drives were made in Spain).
That adds up to more trucks.