Chapter 1

I chose a quote from "Friday Night at Iowa 8O". The quote comes from an old-timer at the fuel center. "True, big business and government put obstacles in the way, but there was a good living out there for anyone willing to put in the time." I really liked what the old-timer said, because he did not complain like many of the other truck driver's did about regulations. He simply took things as they were and he lived with them. I also really liked this story, because I have always been interested in truck drivers. For some reason I have always been intrigued by truckers while driving down the highway. You look up into the trucks and see all different types of people driving trucks. It always suprises me to see a woman driving a truck, because it is just not something you would expect. I always like to look at trucker's license plates and see where they are from; then think about where they maybe going. This story really helped to shed some light onto the trucking world that I had always been interested in.