Why small towns along old Route 66 are building electric vehicle chargers
A driver stopping for fuel is there for five minutes. A driver charging a car is there for thirty or forty. That difference is the entire reason these towns are installing…
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Why long-haul truckers are leaving the industry for local delivery routes
The pay is often lower. People assume that ends the argument and it does not, because the drivers making this move are not comparing wages. They are comparing lives.
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Keeping the lights on at a twenty-four-hour Iowa diner
The stretch between two and five in the morning is a different business from the rest of the day, and the people who run all night places know it is barely a business at all.
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How independent truck stops survive against interstate chains
I put close to three million miles behind me before my knees decided the matter, and I stopped at a great many places that no longer exist.
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What it takes to run a single-pump gas station in rural Nebraska
The margin on a gallon of fuel is a few cents. That number is the beginning and the end of the story, and everything else follows from it.
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The retirees who keep Kansas pioneer cemeteries from disappearing
There are small burial grounds across the plains that no longer belong to anyone in any practical sense. The church closed. The township dissolved. The family that owned the land…
