Nashville, Tennessee-based Ken Greff, in this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, tells the tales of the early years of his seven-decade career in and around trucking, a sizable portion of it spent in truck sales in Tennessee. Yet Greff got his start behind the wheel far away from the U.S. Southeast in Western Canada, driving and owning trucks in a variety of operations. And Greff, 88 today, sounds like many an OTR hauler when he reflects on one regret: "My family never came first. It should have been, but my job was always first," he told new podcast host and McMahon Truck Centers area manager Corey Price, who lives due East of Nashville near Cookeville, Tennessee.
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Price has known Greff since his own days as lead man in the Music City chapter of the American Truck Historical Society, and Greff served as a sales mentor to him when he took his first truck-sales job at an International dealer in Cookeville. Along the way, Price, a truck and trucking history enthusiast since he was a kid, got to know Greff’s past a good bit better -- it stretches all the way back to World War II times when, shortly thereafter, as a teenager, he got his start trucking via a little bit of a subterfuge on the part of his mother, as you’ll hear in the episode.
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Along the way, as we run through Greff’s early days trucking toward how he got from driving and owning rigs in Western Canada to sales in Middle Tennessee, we’ll hear more from Price, too, on his motivation for creating the podcast:
