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38 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 7.17
THE
BIT
JUST
SAYIN'
Suffering a
Two-Stroke
By Jack Welch
Illustration by Carrie Neumayer
Clean yards, dirty air.
Each year, it seems,
the armada of pickup
trucks pulling flatbed
trailers loaded with lawn
mowers, weed whackers,
leaf blowers, chainsaws and other
yard-work gadgetry grows larger. Few
of the truck doors display a company
name or logo; that's because most of
these outfits are fly-by-nighters — fire-
men gigging for extra spending money,
laid-off factory employees, stir-crazy
teachers off for the summer.
How many such "businesses" are
there? No telling — the city has no
licensing procedure for vagabond
lawn-and-garden services. If you want
to operate a food truck, say, or sell
T-shirts on a street corner — in short,
be an itinerant vendor or peddler —
lord knows, you'd better apply (and