Crossroads

Tim Botos: JACKSON TWP. — On boxed trailers, flatbeds and mammoth refrigerators on wheels, America drives to, from and through Stark County.

Before sunrise, under the midday sun and in the still of night, truckers hauling everything from onions to TVs, zip through this area along Interstate 77. They deliver products to businesses and warehouses here. They take them from here to far-flung locations around the country. Or, they simply just pass through, on their way from Point A to B.

"If you bought it, a truck brought it," truckers tell you.

Regular folks, casual drivers in cars and SUVs — four-wheelers as truckers call them — share the road with these trucks every day. Rarely, if ever, do they…