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Prospects of electric tractor more flip-phone than iPhone

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Updated Jul 6, 2017

A couple of years ago, you were probably being inundated by the sheer volume of headlines proclaiming natural gas as trucking’s great disruptor.

Then diesel prices – the ultimate disruptor – dropped and have held under $3 per gallon for more than a year.

One of my Facebook friends (not the same guy from my previous blog, I swear) recently posted a query, asking his friends to share words that bother them.

First of all, I’m amazed at the number of people who don’t like the word “moist.”

Secondly, as I sat there and read the comments where people listed their least favorite words – words like deplane, gullet and meat – I thought long and hard about what words really rub me the wrong way.

I could only come up with one: disrupt, which is overused and often misapplied in this industry.

A decade ago this month, Steve Jobs and his iPhone changed how the world communicates and accelerated the exodus of the land line from many U.S. homes.