Posted on 02/09/2022 5:40:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
A faint winter sun slides toward the frozen scrub as Stephen Graves guides his tractor-trailer across the cracked pavement of a truck stop parking lot in southern Oklahoma. Exhausted from another 400 miles behind the wheel, he needs the restroom. But mostly he needs an answer to the same question that dogs him nearly every day as darkness falls: Where can he park his rig for the night?
Graves is nearing the 11-hour limit on driving before he is legally required to rest for 10 hours. He could push on for another hour, creep closer to the Texas border and shorten the distance to his drop-off the next morning — a warehouse alongside the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
The calculus is tricky. The next truck stop down the interstate is notoriously short on parking. He might get there and have to settle for the shoulder of a highway on-ramp. This stop outside the minuscule town of Springer is unappealing — its bathrooms rank and its dining options minimal. But it has parking in abundance. So he pulls in for the night and climbs into the bunk at the back of his cab for a few hours of fitful sleep.
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So why can’t they slow down? Instead they force me to slow down.
I’m just saying theyre the biggest, most lethal thing on the road and many of the operators drive like it. And it’s infuriating and many times very unsafe.
Or they just wontonly Sally on over into the left lane without a care in the world about the passenger vehicle going much faster than they on their left side.
God bless the truckers for what they’re doing. They have a lot of power and I’m happy to see them using it.
Truckers used to be the coolest guys on the road — helpful and polite. That was back in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Now they’re bullies. I won’t drive the interstates anymore because of that. I-40 is a nightmare.
I know they’ve got it rough now, though.
Public highways. Maybe truckers should build their own roads?
Nope but you feel free to worship before his glorious glow if you like.
Amazon Prime has changed my life for the better.
There is no arguing with a slave.
Oh shut up, old man. You sit behind your computer on the internet using search engines and browsers and cookies and you judge me because Amazon gets me things I need quicker and cheaper than anyone else every could? At least I’m honest about it. You’re the worst type of hypocrite there is.
Not a man.
And I do not like your sucking on the taxpayer tit to give money to Clinton's buddy.
But it is your business of course.
You are the one who has to live with yourself.
And it sounds like you are having some trouble doing that.
I suggest shaving your head. That way you do not have to look in the mirror to do your hair.
It might help.
But me ordering something off Amazon is just WAY too much for you to handle. What an absolute clown you are.
I don't don any of those things. Never even ruffled my hair with that one.
But that is ok.
The total desperation of your grasping at anything to justify your adoration of Clinton's Pal is a sign that your soul is not totally dead.
There is hope for you yet.
“if drugs are made to appear alluring by legalizing weed”
Legality is alluring? Preparation H is legal - does that make it alluring?
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