Building Roads with Alden

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If there comes a time when truck drivers read poetry, mine will be the poetry they'll read. - Alden Nowlan I'd like to think if someone from the day shift had left a book of Alden's on the seat and I'd picked it up while waiting for the spreader Young tho I was, and trucker proud of the silver badges on my belt and the black ribbon we were laying he'd have had a hard time getting it back

The Author, at age 18, drove for Ramsey and Bird paving highways in Southern Saskatchewan. Silver badges were Chauffeur’s Licenses required for professional drivers

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