The closest research I have ever done on truckers is listening to the background noise of advertisements for Ice Road Truckers until I read Friday Night at Iowa 80. With low expectations on how strongly this required reading was going to hold my attention, I was surprised to find myself not only intrigued but even enjoying the paper as well. I found it to be an interesting twist on how truck stops are viewed by the truckers themselves.
The whole idea of the log book being such a central object for the truckers, a symbol of both profit and loss for the truckers was what I found particularly interesting. How the men and women need to cheat the system in order to survive and how their paper logbooks are slowly but surely being outdated by computerized models made me feel worried for their ability to cheat and ensure at least enough profit to get by.
