Editing Wastes Full Of Lightning (section)

===The Road Crew===

A lot of people who travel alone or in small groups in vehicles, acting as scavengers and hoarding whatever they can find of real or imagined value to take with them, doing what they can to avoid drawing attention to themselves while not on the road. A lot of them exist basically in the niche of herd animals- well armed groups actually find it easier to rob them and leave them alive to continue scavenging than to scavenge for themselves. This has been taken to an almost civilized conclusion: Road Crews are well-armed gangs who establish small fortresses along roads that essentially act as toll booths where vehicles are stopped and shaken down, often by way of a large truck used to block the road. Usually they'll leave whatever they decide the driver absolutely needs, so that the relationship can continue. 

Most Road Crews are built around places of interest, but they move around with changes is traffic tendencies. They're particularly likely to close in and spring up overnight in a circle around a hold, shaking down people who come in or out. They have a weird impact on the areas they control, securing at the same time they terrorize, bringing trade into a hold at the same time they fleece people coming in or out. They tend to have an abundance of resources and know the comings and goings of survivors, but their prices are always painfully steep. Individuals or small groups on foot can often sneak around them unseen or just slip past unmolested, but large groups or anyone trying to use the road in a vehicle is automatically a target to them.