A customer once asked me to sit in on his generator’s monthly test. The thing started on its own, ran for twenty minutes humming along at no loa…

The night-shift supervisor at a quarry project I worked on kept a fuel log in a spiral notebook. Neat columns. Dates, deliveries, running hours. He&#8…

The smell hit me before the tour even started. Hot paint, cutting oil, and that sharp diesel tang that gets into your clothes and stays there for a da…