When our farm to market roads were built about 50 years ago, the heavy traffic was pretty much two-ton trucks hauling wheat to elevators.

The stock trailers weren’t big fourteen-, sixteen-foot bumper pull – a few semi trucks, oil trucks and water trucks, not all that many.

The roads weren’t built for the heavy traffic of today. When they were built, they were a Godsend. We could go to town without fighting mud.

The heavy oil field traffic of recent years has done a number on our farm to market roads. The county blacktops are in sad shape and the very wet spring hasn’t helped any. I don’t know how to solve the problem. County commissioners do the best they can with the funds available. Federal help? Our president is aware of the decaying infrastructure; federal help maybe.

I’m beginning to wonder if we will live long enough to see the construction signs on Highway 81 North be taken down.

God bless America,

Jon Cochran Sr.