American truckers are always trying to reduce their time and gasoline useage. Out in the vast expanses of the American west, they often take a lonely cutoff. It may be wide and smooth, but usually is a rough two-lane with narrow or no shoulders used mostly by truckers and the sparse local population of ranchers and farmers. It's the sort of road where you can drive 25, or 50, or 120 miles and meet only 2 or 3 other vehicles. The road may be rough but it's value is that it may save several hundred miles in total trip time. This trucker thinks this leg of his trip will only be 78 miles, but what he doesn't know is that he is being watched and this lonely cutoff will prove to be a journey of many Light Years. More tomorrow!! Thanks for looking! Credits: Tanker rig by G.W. Chapman, but re-textured by me and I also added working lights. The highway is a Net freebie. Terrains created and rendered in Bryce 5 Driver is DAZ Mike 2. Grasses from Transpond's Grasslands series.