Saw it.. just got busy and didn't get a chance to reply.

Yes, agree totally.
I see truck stops as a good metaphor for D/E ports.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
> (I tried sending this earlier from my smartphone, but it's keyboard wouldn't
> let me add the brackets so I'm not sure if this was noticed as being
> Traveller-related . . .)
>
> Since Monday, I have been experiencing the fascinating world of professional
> trucking. And it has struck me that - at least at the PC level and for
> smaller ports - a truck stop has a lot to contribute, in the way of
> ambiance, over airports [and seaports]. Let me give a couple of examples:
>
> Case 1: After using the scales, a certain ill-mannered driver stopped only a
> few feet out of the scales, apparently to deal with trip paperwork. It
> didn't seem to bother him that everyone was cursing him to Hades for
> blocking the exit from both the scales and half the fuel islands . . .
>
> Case 2: I watched someone cursing in what seemed to be Arabic, as they
> chisselled what appeared to be decades of corrosion off a trailer's DOT
> bumper, presumably because that was what was needed to get the reflective
> stickers he had been ticketed for not having to adhere . . .
>
>
> --
> Richard Aiken
>
> "Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
> "I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the
> conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as
> Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)
> "We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous."
> Dean Winchester
> "It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger."
> Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing
> Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children
> and wife.
>
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