Larry Severson’s racecar mechanic skills helped jump start a career as an owner-operator
Owner Operator of the Month
You can’t measure success in dollars and cents, Severson says of his nearly 50-year career. Success, he says, is the feeling you get when you’ve done the job right.
Owner-operator Larry Severson’s first haul was the clincher for the start of a nearly 50-year career.
On a Saturday afternoon in 1963 while working part-time at a local gas station, Severson was asked by a customer if he’d drive a truck for Northwest Transfer.
“It was the following Monday morning I got over to his place where he had the trucks parked and he gave me a load to Country Club food stores, and I took that first truckload,” he says. “I had to use a road map to get there.”
