He was underselling it. Unless you walked naked out into the woods and built your life entirely from found materials, literally everything in your life was at

He was underselling it. Unless you walked naked out into the woods and built your life entirely from found materials, literally everything in your life was at some point or another hauled by a truck. Everything. This is not a hyperbolic way to make an argument, it's the truth. Sometimes you'll have to go pretty far back the chain of events, maybe as far as raw materials, but at some point (probably several) X was on a truck for any X. A hippie commune that grow all their own food living off the grid? Their clothes, their tools, the paint on their house, it all rode on trucks. Two-ish years ago truckers in Brazil went on a strike to protest increased gas prices and corruption and it only took three days before the president ordered the military to force the trucks into moving again. That's how hard it hits if trucks stop moving. The military couldn't do shit though because the trucks hauling the diesel powering the military vehicles were part of the protest so they got nowhere. If all the trucks stop right this second, we'll be living in post-apocalyptic chaos by Friday. No joke.