Truck Drivers Needed

I have a son who loves trucks.  When he was little we moved into our first home, a new neighborhood full of construction.  We were one of the first families to have our home completed and so we moved in amidst the construction.  Although I remember it as dusty, my son was forever entertained.  Dump trucks.  Digging trucks.  And then of course, the garbage truck had to come down our street for our garbage.  He frequently ate his breakfast on the front steps of our house just to watch the many trucks at work.  In the winter, I wouldn't let him eat on the front porch, but he sat at our front window just for glimpse of the snow plow truck.

As he grew, trucks still were still a fascination for him.  Walking to school, he would frequently become distracted and therefore late, due to a truck.  When he got to junior high, naturally there were other things on his mind, but if a truck rolled by, he always took a long hard look.  Running errands one day, he quickly pointed out a sign that read "Truck Drivers Needed".  It was his dream job.  He never realized that the sign was meant for semi truck long haul drivers.

He could not believe that you could actually have a job where all you got to do was drive trucks.  One day, maybe a dump truck.  The next day, you could drive the garbage truck.  And in the winter, he would get to drive the snow plow truck.  I explained that the sign meant you would carry product in a large trailer that you would pull with your semi and take it all over the country.  I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't.  This was a huge truck and he thought it sounded like a pretty good job.

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