A simple salute

Madam – A simple salute.

Some motorists get very upset when they get held up by a big truck on the road.

Especially on an uphill! ( Tigers Kloof, Biggarsberg ). It slows you down quite a lot. Of course your car, with hundreds of horsepower, could literally “fly up” this hill with the greatest of ease, but the truck, with far fewer horsepower and many, many tonnes of goodies to drag along, cannot do so.

But we must remember that everything, but really absolutely everything we eat, drink, sit on, sleep on or otherwise use in whatever way, was at some stage moved by a truck. So we should be thankful for the work the trucks – and their drivers – do for us.

If it wasn’t for trucks we could only rely on food grown or produced within a range of about 100 km (the ox-wagon range. Remember the ubiquitous Vegetables in season on the hotel’s menu? That’s where the phrase comes from).

That’s why I, as a connoisseur of fresh food, don’t ever mind being held up by a truck. Because I know that ultimately it is for my benefit, and I do appreciate that. Thank you, Trucker.

M.J.