I can remember as a little girl driving in the car with my mother putting my hand in the air and pulling it down as if I was pulling the horn of a 18 wheeler truck I even did it to dumpster trucks. I would do this until the truck driver saw me and he pull his back. I did that every time I saw a truck, telling my mom drive faster so she could catch up to them. I couldn't believe how beautiful some of the trucks were. When I found out that some of them had beds in them, just amazed me. I just loved when we would go on family trips and we pulled into the truck stops, I felt as if I was in a M&M factory but with trucks. I don't know much about this group, but my assumptions are that truckers are outlaws, Women can't be good truckers, and they are mean, smelly, and they cursed a lot, but after doing some research about truckers hopefully will change my assumptions of them. In class we discussed an article "Tent City" by George Saunders. In this article it talked about a group of people who formed a microcosm. Just as microcosm exist in Tent City, I believe it also exist in truckers society. They both have rules, regulations, and responsibilities. I plan to observe men and women truckers that drive local, long-haul trucking fleets/professional drivers, independent professional motorists, drivers/owner operators, RV`ers. and motor-coaches,
at a TA Truck Stop.
