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STORY * USA - Trucks Are Amazing
So truckers, keep it rolling, and thanks
USA -Mark Hayward is my Hero, by mark -10 May 2007: -- I think we all know on some level that our country only functions because of trucks. Almost everything we buy, drive, eat, etc. comes to us on a truck, and yet they’re so common that we not only take them for granted… we don’t even see them anymore. I spend a lot of time on the road, and most of the time I don’t really notice the specifics of the trucks myself, but this week for some reason I was noticing all kinds of things being hauled around the Midwest. Here are just a few of the more interesting things I saw on my trip up to Minneapolis last weekend: ....
... I always wonder what is in all of the other trucks that have no markings on them. When I worked at REI I was often on truck-unloading duty. Our stuff only took up half the truck, and the stuff in the other half was always pretty cool. Once it was a tractor, once it was giant stacks of plastic storage bins, and once it was massive rolls of empty bags for frozen vegetables on their way to be filled. The veggie bags were actually the most impressive because they were so incredibly heavy. You wouldn’t think that plastic bags would be heavy, but they were in these big, tightly-wound rolls, and then stacked high on pallets. Everything that we ever got for our store could be easily moved by one person with a pallet jack. It took FIVE of us just to get the towers of veggie bags rolling after we got them off the ground on our pallet jack. It was crazy. I really thought that our buddy Trucker Dave was going to have a heart attack right there in our warehouse...
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