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This made me chuckle, as this is pretty common in the midwest. My first job was at 12 years old; I drove a 6 wheeled grain truck for our family's farmer friend
by exabrial 5y ago
This made me chuckle, as this is pretty common in the midwest.
My first job was at 12 years old; I drove a 6 wheeled grain truck for our family's farmer friend in the July heat to help with his wheat harvest.
No a/c, windows were stuck down, 3 speed. Bruce, the farmer, rigged up a pedal extension for me on the clutch.
Plenty of kids down here can drive a skid steer, tractor, truck, or loader.
- poo-yie 5y agoTwo different things. Driving a farm truck on a rural road in Nebraska is very different from driving a tractor-trailer loaded in heavy traffic on the interstate.
- exabrial 5y agoSouth Kansas actually, thank you very much. And I assume you mean that navigating a farm truck in heavy traffic on a dirt road going into the co-op, sometimes waiting for 2 hours to dump the load, with tight busy traffic passing both ways on a narrow dirt road lined with ditches that could roll the vehicle is different than what you're saying.