HeyJaredThe Lorryist
I'm a full time audiobook and podcast listener, and as a concurrent activity I drive a truck around the UK.
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I Can’t Remember Ukraine (opens the original)
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In 2003, I spent 6 months riding a bicycle through Europe, starting in Portugal, and ending at Finland’s northern border with Norway. This was via a snake-like route heading north through Western Europe, then south again into Eastern Europe, then north yet again from the Balkans all the way to beyond the Arctic Circle. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WydO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
The Drag Racing Approach to Fitness (opens the original)
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Yes, this article is about health and fitness, but I’ll start with an anecdote about drag racing.I’ve long had a fascination with this simple, brutal, and uncouth form of American motorsport. I actually lived just around the corner from Santa Pod - ‘Europe’s Best Dragstrip’™ . This might seem a bit like saying ‘the craziest party animals of the Amish’, but it is genuinely a world class venue.Anyway, on one visit to ‘The Pod’ I found myself chatting with the owner of a heavily modified GTi. He se
The Anatomy of a Narrative: The “Truck Driver Shortage” (opens the original)
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“…even more annoyingly - because of the national shortage of lorry drivers - we’d only been able to book one lorry to take the barley away” - Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson’s Farm, Season 2, ep 1This article isn’t primarily about the much-touted “truck driver shortage” - a story that has rumbled around for decades on both sides of the Atlantic, and now globally. The facts of the story are - in this article - correct, and salient to the broader economy, but you shouldn’t dismiss it as a niche article
51°48'08.4" North, 1°26'44.4" West (opens the original)
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We cross the busy A40 main road via a small bridge, at a place called Hill Farm Livery Yard. There’s then a long bridleway - a public right-of-way for horse-riders and hikers - that takes you through a wooded area, towards the village of North Leigh. It’s quiet there. The trees and the topography mean that the road noise soon disappears, and you’re surrounded only by soft woodland sounds, and the sound of your own steps. There’s a furtive rustle in the bushes to the left, and my eyes probe the f
Notes On Notes From My Travels (opens the original)
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It’s so easy to get cynical about the philanthropic pronouncements and endeavours of the rich and famous. It’s so easy to suspect public relations motives and reputation laundering. It’s also so easy to doubt the motives of NGOs who use them as figureheads.But then it’s also easy to apply that cynicism without any caution, without actually looking a little deeper, with just reference to the bare optics (and just looking at the optics is by definition falling for the PR). As my regular readers kn
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