'Interstate Trucks Race Cross Country' - Limited Edition of 16 Photograph

This trucker is revving his diesel loudly and spewing exhaust into the air from his semi-tractor's twin stacks as a warning to this photographer who is taking photos of trucks lined up at a Winnemucda, Nevada, truck stop and rest area. Truckers are obliged by federal law to take periodic rests and limit their driving for safety reasons. Most do their obligatory rests at such places -- sleeping, cooking and living in their cabs. Those scudding, washboard clouds over his rear are from a 'cold front' representing a storm coming in from the West. After crossing the Pacific the storm already has passed over California's coast, central valley and Sierra on its way across the United States. Within a day's time, this storm will cross Utah's high, rugged Wasatch mountain range, regarded by many as a part of the Rockeys, then the main Rockey Mountains in Wyoming just north of Colorado, on the truck's route as it crosses the country. I was driving the same route and had the same weather concerns. This trucker already has driven in front of the cold weather front from Reno, stopped for fuel only at the truck stop, and is in a hurry to get onto nearbby Interstate 80 headed East across the Rocdkeys to the Great Plains and parts East, loaded with time-sensitive,perishable, cooled produce he is hauling to fill shelves of Eastern US supermarkets where Californai produce is highly prized. Time is of the essesence. Though snow months mostly have passed for the central Nevada, Great Basin desert on this 395-mile strech from Reno, NV to Wendover on the Utah border, his route will take hikm over the Rockey Mountains. At altitude, any major mountain or mountain range in the Western Unijted States with elevation above 5,000 feet may experience occasional spring, fall and even summer snowstorms at high elfvations, particularly at night when low mountaihn temperatures may allow precipitatiojn to take the form of snow, which vehicioles will compact and turn into treacherous ice. His route takes him past UItah's Wasatch mpountains and across the Rocky Mountains in southern Wyoming, at elevations near 8,000 feet. Interstate 80 once divided into two parts in Western Wyoming. I-80 North went to Portland, Ore. I-80 South wento to San Francisco. Thiis cause confusion, and later the 80-N route was renamed I-90. Because there are few turns and thos are mostly low-grade turns and few climbs outside the Golconda summit just West of Wendover at the Utah border where there is a 600 foot climb and descent, the route stays mostly 100 to 300 feet below 5,000 feet, nearly one mile above sea level. There is usually little moisture in the air, so daytime heating is rapid with mostly very hot summer temperatures, paiored with plunging jnighttime temperatures,also a product of dry air and also cloudless skies which allow earth's heat rapidly to radiate into space. I nade it to the East Coast just ahead of this cold front all the way to Chicago where it veered another direction and dissippated. I shipped the auto to Europe, then turned around anjd flew back to the West Coast. Driving long distance required a stop every hour or so for rest. I took those times to take photos and was well rewarded. John (Crosley) (c) 2021, all rights reserved, text and image. No reproduction text, and/or image without prior written permission from copyright holder.

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Artist Produced Limited Edition of:16

Size:40 W x 26.6 H x 0.1 D in

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