We Buy Trucks Taller Than Our Houses

In Bellwether, Michigan, the houses are getting smaller, the trucks are getting bigger, and the machines are learning how to do everything people once believed made them necessary.Seventeen-year-old Mara Mercer comes home one afternoon to find her father, Cal, proudly standing beside a massive new pickup truck—sixty-eight thousand dollars of diesel, chrome, debt, and possibility parked in front of...