Well, a recent trip on I-80 lead me to believe that perhaps the Semi-Truck isn’t as dead as I might have thought. With the price of fuel jumping over $4.00 a gallon, the temptation was to think that they semi-truck may no longer be economical as a form of transportation to move goods around the country. I can remember times when I-80 was just crowded with truck after truck after truck. Sometimes the road was so heavily traveled that you could not move over say, 80 miles per hour.
Well, I do think that perhaps there are less trucks on the road. I saw a train last night, seemed like it was miles long and of course, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that my theory was true. Of course, the lower number of trucks was probably related to the fact that the economy is slowing down and there was bad weather. Regardless, I think the semi-truck’s future is probably in limbo now.