The Long Road to Equality - Pacific Standard
He had cruised through farmland parched by drought, blazing desert, and wide-open prairie. Now, four days into a routine cross-country journey, Michael Ware was slogging through traffic in the suburbs south of Chicago.
“Moves like that I don’t get,” Ware, 44, huffed from the driver’s seat of his Peterbilt as a Chevy Tahoe cut him off. “They don’t know how to drive in Illinois.”
The comment might have been motivated by a momentary flash of road rage, but it was certainly informed by the hundreds of thousands of miles Ware has covered in 15 years of driving.
“Nothing moves without trucks. You look around: If it’s manufactured, a truck touches it.”