The air howled through the cracks in the driver's seat as Jake sped across the vast expanse of the American prairie. He had been on this long haul trucking trip for weeks, his trusty rig trundling beneath him. Every mile was a story, every state a chapter in the ever-unfolding saga of the open road.

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