It’s a little after 9 a.m. in the Iowa 80 Kitchen. The waitress, dropping my plate of biscuits and eggs on the table, says, “Hope you like gravy,” and boy, is she not kidding. Ahead of me: 12 hours in the 220-acre Walcott truck stop that claims the mantle of “World’s Largest.” Iowa 80 opened […]
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Drive down a virtual I-80 with a new Iowa trucking simulator
As I pull out of the home-improvement big box store — a simulacrum of Iowa City’s Menards called “Shop Town” — I think to myself, In another life I could’ve been a truck driver. The thought returns as I haul various cargo from one Iowa destination to another: lumber from Des Moines to Iowa City, ice cream from Cedar Rapids to Davenport, and so on.
