Trucking into the Future

By Whitney Knowles

The tasks of being an intern at The American Truck Historical  Society  has been filled with logging files into the computer and working on the pile of magazines that I have been working on. The logging into the system seems to be going pretty smoothly. I am putting the information from the folders of articles and photos that are located in their reference section. They are wanting to have an easier and quicker way to gather information from their collection and maybe, one day, to be online for their members to look up themselves.  It makes sense since someone who is writing the information for me to input into the system is doing the same work I am doing with the magazines.

The magazines are still taking up most of my time right now. So far I have filled 12 filing cabinets of magazines. Looking through them, I start to see patterns that the trucking world faced over the years. An example is that all the different brands of magazines change art work with the decades from old fashion 60’s to the land of tie dye and mom jeans of the 70’s. I enjoy the big hair and trucker hats of the 80’s the most. Another example is how to help truckers deal with the increase of technology. What we think is old new an out of date, is showcased in the pages as brand new and hard to understand. Crazy to think what future generations will think about our technology and clothing fads.

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