Watching for the Pie Truck

It is hard to imagine a world without Interstate 80 and all the trucks on it that we have today. Most of the trips my family took while I was growing up were on paved, two-lane highways. A trip on U.S. 6, U.S. 30 for U.S. 81 always found lots of truck traffic.

As a youngster it was hard for me to sit in the back seat during what seemed like endless drives. My mother was creative in inventing games to make the miles go by faster and one of those games was watching trucks. Back then there were the local haulers and the nationwide companies. One of the nationwide companies was Pacific Intermounta...