Farm Trucks

I always get a laugh when ever I see one of those commercials that are selling some brand of agricultural products. The farms are quiet wonderland s of sweet farm children, old tractors and well kept pick-up trucks with bushel baskets of apples.

I’ve never seen a farm truck that was in any road worthy condition out in the field. Most farm trucks are too broken to fix economically, but they still run and can haul things around. The farm that I worked on as a boy had a farm truck. It didn’t have breaks. It was missing body parts and there were cracks in the windshield and the mirrors were missing. However at 14 years of age I learned how to drive with that truck hauling flats of tomatoes or whatever we pre-grew in the greenhouse out to the fields to be planted. At harvest time I would drive that truck loaded with bushels of tomatoes, corn, peppers, egg plant, squash or crates of cabbage.

Whenever my present truck develops a new quirk I call it a farm truck. So far two windows won’t roll down, the blinkers get stuck on without flashing. There is a crack in the windshield and there is a dent on the tail-gate. How long before it is left to rust in a pasture.