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Tag: faces of the road: Page 3
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Sisters of the highway: Trucker donating kidney to fellow hauler
One hauler (and kidney) to another. âLong Haul Paulâ Marhoefer tells the story of West Virginia-based oil tank hauler Elizabeth Sweetâs plans to donate a kidney to Hawaii-based dump-truck driver Cheryl Lynn Ibana-Bean.
July 3, 2019
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Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told âI couldnât do it, and I was gonna prove âem wrongâ
Hooks and her 2014 389: âI learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. Thereâs people out there in Texas âŚ, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what Iâve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.â
May 13, 2019
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âTheyâre not used to seeing a woman haul steelâ â Meet Md.-based Nikki Stewart
âThereâs a lot of ego in steel hauling. You have to psych yourself up for it, like an athletic event. You have to have a good work ethic. Theyâre not used to seeing women hauling steel. When they see youâre a woman, they have to give you some kind of label.â Hear more from Stewart in this âFaces of the Roadâ installment from Long Haul Paul.
May 1, 2019
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Nearly six months without a paycheck: One lease operatorâs story
Year 2018 was shaping up to be the best on record for a Midwest-based lease operator. He had just paid off his 2015 Pete. A breakdown, a cargo claim, an illness and little support from his carrier later, and âall I had left was my word.â
March 5, 2019
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61 years trucking â and counting
Truck driver James Tharp shares some of history based on his 61 (and still going strong) year career as a truck driver. Read what he has to share here.
February 11, 2019
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ââŚ. the day they put an e-log in my truckâ: A multimillion-miler father still trucking, the son who got out
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the ELD mandate, a conversation with a father who stayed in the industry, and a son who left it behind. Introducing Ohio-based Bill and Lee Wilker.
December 17, 2018
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Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better
Long Haul Paulâs latest in the âFaces of the Roadâ series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill âWatermelon Slimâ Homans, out with a new record, âChurch of the Blues.â As Slim puts it: âIâve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.â
December 4, 2018
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Thanksgiving ramblings on the trucking life in times gone by
Roger Ruble was âfrom that onetime breed of ex-drivers who would build a truck stop of their own.â Long Haul Paul met Ruble at the perfect moment at the tale end of a maiden voyage in the late 1980s, cold and hungry in Fiat, Ind.
November 20, 2018
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âHighway Hellionâ Meredith Ochsâ new history of women in rock music
Most in trucking might best know Ochs as cohost of the former Freewheelinâ program on Sirius XMâs Road Dog Trucking Radio channel, but her exhaustive knowledge of music stems from decades as both a broadcaster and writer in multiple genres.
November 12, 2018
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Faces of the Road: â18 wheels and a dozen rosesâ singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea and her new record
âLong Haul Paulâ sits down with a trucking-country legend for a talk, in part, about her new âPretty Birdâ record: âIn the end, we all become characters in a Kathy Mattea song. In three years, if I can tough it out, I will literally receive a gold watch at my own trucking job. âŚâ
October 22, 2018
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Why $6,000 from Chicago to Long Island is no longer enough
Huck Northcutt is a former Army cook turned flatbed driver. This Face of the Road recounts nightmare loads and what trips just aren't worth the money anymore.
July 30, 2018
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Faces of the Road: HHG hauler/American author Finn Murphy
Long Haul Paul Marhoeferâs detailing of how young Murphy âacquired a love for âlow company and hard workâ while working at Danâs Service Station in Cos Cob, Connecticut,â and more in a life and business hauling HHG, part of it chronicled in his âThe Long Haulâ book.
July 16, 2018
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