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

[A HERETIC I AM]

43. The gig I have is mostly night work.

The US Mail moves at night, for the most part. Certainly it does for distances shorter than 500 miles, anyway.

In the last 11 years I've worked more days that started after 5 PM than I can count.

The rest of your points are well taken. People don't really know how much goes on while they're sleeping.

Take Manhattan, for instance. Almost all the restaurants, bodegas and other retail stores get their deliveries in the wee hours. The side streets are packed with straight trucks and tractor trailers delivering what it takes to keep a major city fed and clothed. The fish, produce and meat markets in most major cities open at 2 or 3 in the morning. The guy delivering to your local convenience stores do that work at night. Thousands of drivers across the country have the keys to the back doors of Wendy's, McDonald's, Burger King's, etc. and put their product in place mostly at night.

I've only hauled "dry freight" and cars in my career, never foodstuffs, but those guys I mentioned above bust their asses to keep us all fed.