Good-Will Debt Repaid With a Hay Ride
About 75 tractor-trailers, many driven by stock car racers, rumbled into Columbus with horns blaring Thursday hauling 50,000 bales of hay donated by Southern farmers to Ohio ranchers struggling to feed their cattle in drought-parched pastures.
The weary drivers pulled their rigs past well-wishers into a grain terminal 12 hours after the convoy departed Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina on a mission to repay a debt of good will.
The caravan, which wound through the mountains of western North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, was a reverse run of a convoy that hauled 20,000 bales of hay from Ohio to the drought-stricken Southeast in 1986.
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