I have been driving freight across the country for over fourteen years, hauling everything from frozen poultry to industrial machine parts through every weather condition imaginable. When you spend that much time behind the wheel of a massive diesel engine, the highway stops being just a road and transforms into a separate reality with its own specific rules and rhythms. You learn to read the subtle changes in the vibration of the floorboards, you understand the exact moment your tires lose their grip on slick asphalt, and you become intimately familiar with the profound, heavy isolation that settles over the world after
