Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Frank Figliuzzi - "Long Haul"

Long haul truckers being serial killers. 

The tone it's written in, is not great. Very heavy and portentious.


It's the will and the thrill to load faster, stop less, keep driving with a taped hose, push the envelope of remaining fuel in hopes of the reward that comes with the next load. There's a truck phrase that embodies the spirit: "Risk it for the biscuit"


Hunts Points is home to one of the largest food-distribution facilities in the world, with hundreds of acres making up the Hunts Points Cooperative Market.


There was more to reefer trucking than simply steering a rolling refrigerator. That's because the driver became a part of the ripening process. Dale received daily instructions to carefully adjust the temperature so his tomatoes - or whatever fruits or veggies he hauled - would appropriately ripen as they rambled across the country.


"The things that they were communicating wasn't through actual words," she said. "It was through different emojis and they meant different things. So if we take our child's phone and we're trying to look through it, do we always know what that fully means?"