greater-than-the-sword:

Long-distance truckers were a kind of nomadic mercenary guild existing throughout the Diesel Era of the United States.¹ They lived in their Trucks, an enormous mobile caravan-like structure.² Although some purchased the Trucks outright, others held them in trust from their corporate³ patrons⁴. Truckers would frequently decorate and customise these caravans, modifying this hostile space into a kind of domicile. They lived a solitary lifestyle in which their only contact with other human beings was the frequenting of their vast system of trade posts along the great East-West trade routes.

local villagers (me) would often speak in hushed tones of fear about the danger of passing near a trucker in one’s own small short-distance conveyance, because of the immense destructive power of the thing– a great dragon beast, only somewhat influenced by its Driver, who was far more in its thrall, owing not only to the vehicle’s enormous momentum but also the mysterious Corporate influence which compelled the lone human, like one possessed, to carry on driving even with a body on the verge of collapse from sleeplessness

(source: the tow truck driver who rear-ended my partner once)