The Long Road

That rolling killer truck and on the road ahead, the person who caused it all. That's the story of the long road, taken from the dials of John Steele. Adventurer.

This is John Steele. I wonder how many of you have ever driven one of those big diesel trucks. If you haven't, you probably wondered what it was like to push one of the huge job down the road.

And I bet you many of the time you wished you had one when some crazy fool pulled out of a aside, wrote in front of you, right? Well, this week's adventure is going to take you right into the cab of one of them, during an all-night trip. A trip made by a good friend

of mine, Greg Prater, one he'll never forget, because death was also writing the role that night. But I've asked him to tell you a historian personally. Greg, who are you one of those people who always say, find out yourself before you believe anything, investigate? Sure, it's good theory, but in practice you don't always work out. Even investigating can give you the

wrong idea. You can be misled by a lot of things. Believe me, brother, when the time comes, did you find yourself getting into a spot thinking something you don't want to. There ain't no theory going to do you any good, most likely. You're going to act just like I did.

I'd been working for the Northern Truck and they trucked stuff from coast to coast to the Northern State, but for the last six months I'd been running the night leg between Syracuse and Springfield Mass.

One night I told the wife Betty to meet me at Sammies, where all us drivers eat, before she went home from shopping. And I got there early, she was over in the corner talking with another driver.