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12/30/2003: "Random thought on things"

Having managed to rack up something like 2,500 miles over the last two weeks on the highways over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that truckers get a really bad rap. Most of my trip was along Interstate 5 (stretching from the California-Mexican border right up to the Washington-Canadian border), which is more of a truck and commercial traffic road versus some other alternate routes. It's not even holiday traffic, I don't think... by and large, people just don't drive well. Truckers do. Whether you admit it or not, they're professionals who spend their lives driving, and when they get a ticket or in a crash, it puts their careers and livelihood at stake; the rest of us just worry about having to go to traffic school. Compare it to your doctor -- who do you think you'd rather have doing your heart surgery: the guy who does the surgery regularly, or the weekend warrior who only gets out into the operating room on holidays. Yessir, I'll take a highway of semi-trucks over minivans any day.