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The Parish Rolls In at Midnight
Most ministry settings hold still long enough to learn the names. A travel center does not. A driver fuels, showers, sleeps a federally mandated ten hours, and is gone by dawn, three states away before you finish your next shift. The parish of a trucking chaplain arri...
A driver eases seventy-eight feet of truck and trailer into the last open slot on the back row of a travel center at 9 p.m. He is 1,400 miles from home, eleven days into a two-week run, and federal rules say he cannot move again for ten hours. Around him idle three hundred trucks, each cab holding o...
Long-haul trucking moves nearly everything the rest of the country touches, and it asks a steep price from the people who drive it: weeks away from home, meals eaten alone, and hard news that arrives while you are four states from anyone who knows your name. At travel centers and truck stops across ...
It is 11:40 on a Tuesday night at a travel center off the interstate. Eighty trucks idle in the rows, and in one of them sits a driver three weeks from home, phone in hand, reading a message he does not know how to answer. Out in the lot, a trucking chaplain walks the rows with a thermos and time to...
The travel center parking lot behind your fuel islands is a small overnight town. Seventy or eighty trucks idle in the dark, and in each cab is a driver who has been away from home for weeks: one worrying over a marriage strained by the miles, one grieving a parent he could not get home to bury, one...
