St. Paul

October 14, 2008

Alec Soth gets a taste of the political talk on CB radio.

Becky Krech and her dog Abby in her semi truck, St. Paul.

I met Becky Krech parked outside of a gas station in St. Paul. In the cab of her semi she was simultaneously talking on the phone, playing a computer game and listening to the CB radio.

After spending ten years on the road, the cost of gas is getting to her. “It is a bad time to be owning a semi,” she said, “or just about anything else.”

Krech is voting for Barack Obama and thinks he’ll win, but she’s concerned about what might happen after he is in office. “I think somebody is going to shoot him – just like J.F.K. They are going to do him in because he’s doing too much.” Krech said that Obama was an especially controversial figure in the universe of CB radio “A lot of the truckers won’t vote for him simply because he’s black.”