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Dunc

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6. I never understood the gravity of this situation. Until we were starting to be educated at first by Roadway in video.
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:03 AM
Yesterday

Years back you and i remember commercial company working truck stops and I’d feel for those ladies .
And I’m not trying to sound callous. Back then those women were just part of the landscape. Those ladies roaming the parking lots knocking on drivers doors was the subculture of trucking.
Along with the odor of weed burning from a sleeper cab next to you parked and the offers of road dope over the C.B.
Today it is almost nonexistent. As truck stops will call the local authorities video cameras every where. And in my mind i thought prostitution in our world was a thing of the past.
And i was wrong as today in my education I’ve even discovered you can order a trafficked woman online from your phone.
As most recently last year sitting in Fernley Nevada late at night parked in that huge dirt parking lot across from that cement plant next to the truck stop.
Waiting my partner and i for Truckee to open because they had the chain law in place. We saw a woman hop out of a van and into a cab we both knew what was happening. Yet it is Nevada where prostitution is legal.

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