Eight Thousand Gallons of Milk and a Small Blue Ledger

to me, watching a driver secure the rear door of a trailer.

“The distribution label is just standard corporate terminology,” he said, his voice rising slightly over the rumble of the truck engines. “It is a minor detail that will save jobs in the long run.”

“A distribution hub does not need a bottling line,” I said. “It does not need Wayne, and it does continue reading …