Lost paradise: Short-lived trucker village gets evicted

Lost paradise: Short-lived trucker village gets evicted

An ambitious plan to create a trucker village has proved to be too ambitious. A few years ago, Dean Ash noticed that truck drivers were being treated almost subhuman. Many truck stops wanted them to fuel up and go. Amenities at some were sparse. “My core is to treat everybody like a human being like they deserve to be treated, and I think too often drivers are considered to be a commodity,” Ash told Trucking with OOIDA. Ash wanted to create a pl…