Being an owner operator is one thing, but when you decide to get your own authority, it puts you in a totally different ballpark. When my…
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I was introduced to the H.W. Farren Co. a couple of years ago when my friend Pete Briggs was hauling oversize loads for them. Their trucks…
It has been three years since my friend Bette Garber passed away. I can’t believe how fast time flies. For those of you who knew Bette,…
Most truck drivers hate being told they have to go out on Long Island. Not me – I was bummed that we wouldn’t be stuck for…
Alex Bashenow of Bargersville, Indiana has always dreamed of being a trucker. Unfortunately, his physical and mental condition has kept him from fulfilling that dream –…
Bill Moon had a vision. In 1963, at Exit 284 off a short stretch of the new Interstate 80, in the middle of an Iowa cornfield,…
After recently crossing the flooded Mississippi River near Dyersburg, TN it got me thinking about the mighty river and the famous roads that follow it –…
Over the years I have found that truck drivers are the BEST story tellers. Our dear friend “Uncle Darrell” Hicks is one of those storytellers, and…
You never know what road trucking will take you down. Bryan Dax, a longtime owner-operator from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, knows that well. After three decades of…
As truck drivers, we all want to drive in the safest possible conditions, and we all want to make a decent living doing the important work…
It was in early November (2010) that I got the idea to put together a book for Mary and Philip Breidenstein, the breeders of our dear…
Not long ago, I was sitting in a deli in Madison, Wisconsin enjoying some ice cream with my “adopted daughter” Sarah, and we were talking about…
