There are over 1,840 highway Rest Areas in this country and over 40,000 Truck Stops....

[LogDog75]

41. Never drove a big rig

But the owner of a trucking company offered me a job after I got out of the AF. I was loading our field hospital, on aircraft pallets, on his flat bed rigs with a 10K forklift. We were shipping it to another base for a field demonstration. He asked me which pallets should be loaded first and after consulting my sheet of pallet heights and weights I proceeded to load the rigs. As we were tying down the last of the pallets he asked me when my enlistment was up and said he'd hire me. I was in my 12th year and I told him I'm staying at least 20 years.

I admire truck drivers, not just because of their skills, and others whose jobs we rarely see or consider. They help make our lives easier for us by supplying the products and services we can't do ourselves. I tend to remind people how interdependent we are to everyone else. For example, the clerk at the gas station who accepts deliver of gas from the driver of the gas tanker who picked up the load at the refinery produced by refinery worker from the oil produced by oil well operators who can do their jobs because the people who build and maintain drilling rigs made from the metals other produced at manufacturing plants from the raw metal ores dug by miners, etc... Everything is interrelated and interdependent.

In the late 70s at Myrtle Beach, SC, rock-n-roll legendary D Dick Biondi, had a morning show and one of the things he did every morning was to recognize and thank the men and women who worked the overnight shifts. People like doctors, nurses, police, fire en, waitresses, clerks, etc.. These are people who are "invisible" or are taken granted for by the rest of us.