When Loren Lowry got his CDL in 1990 to take work hauling for Washington, D.C.-area beer distributors, he couldn’t have predicted his ultimate destiny in trucking lay on the long-haul highway. What could have been more predictable, however, was that that long-haul work would be of a piece with one of the now 46-year-old’s passions from an early age. Lowry has raced off-road motorcycles “since I was 11 years old,” he says, on the East Coast circuit through the year 2001, when he began a transition off the bike seat and into a more comfortable, fitting one behind the wheel of a race team transporter.
In 2001, leading up to what would be his last pro race in Toledo, Ohio, Lowry was at a qualifier in New York when he had the opportunity to meet the KTM factory team manager, to whom he expressed interest in becoming a transporter driver. 
Lowry’s gotten a front-of-the-house seat for spectacular national success with L&M, which claimed Supercross championships in both 2008 and 2009. This year, he’s hauling two Supercross racers’ gear — Josh Grant and Kyle Chisholm, both new to the young team this year.
Overall, though, personally, Lowry says he’s gotten no small dose of satisfaction from the day-to-day of trucking the team’s equipment cross-country as a transporter. “Truck driving is one of the best jobs I’ve had,” says Lowry. “You’re directly involved in what you’re doing. It feels like the best thing for me: all of us take pride in what we’re driving no matter what it is — we polish the wheels, wash the truck every week. There’s a lot of nice trucks in the circuit.”
Look for his rig at the truck stop, he says. “We’re normal just like any over-the-road guys at the truck stops. We know all the good restaurants.”
Finally, enjoy the handlebar-cam-view vid of a Josh Grant qualifying round at Anaheim earlier this year below:
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