Tag: faces of the road

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'No wreck is the same': CTS Towing small fleet owner-operators Clifton and Joyce Parsley

In a world where boot-hungry marauders charge $500K for cargo clean-ups, Long Haul Paul here tells the story of CTS Towing, "one of the good guys."

August 12, 2025

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'One of the good guys': Remembering small fleet owner Les Willis

Long Haul Paul remembers small fleet owner Les Willis following his passing this Spring, calling him a man of "deep political conviction and heartfelt social inclusion and tolerance" at once. "Every trucker was welcomed under that tent. ... He was a true gentleman."

July 29, 2025

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Five generations of milk hauling: Turnage and Sons, LLC

Long Haul Paul delivers on how MS-based Turnage and Sons, a fifth-generation milk-hauling small fleet, has defied the trucking odds. The business's time-honored approach to family and hands-on maintenance keeps Robbie and Levi Turnage thriving through market challenge.

July 23, 2025

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He was Wild Bill to us

Long Haul Paul remembers fellow trucker and songwriter Bill Weaver, gone too soon: "Everything he touched seemed to prosper. He was the type of friend you could never outgive."

July 6, 2025

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'Catch you on that Westbound I-40': Remembering Mirah Lesa 'Yo-Yo' Worley Hughes

A legend of the 1970s/'80s trucking generation passed June 2. Long Haul Paul here reflects on his 2021 talk with 'Yo-Yo' Worley, invoking what she'd wanted at the end: "Find an overpass where there's no on- or off-ramp, wait for the wind to blow Westbound, and pour me out over the road."

June 3, 2025

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Honoring a father's legacy with Tim Eacret of EZ Pete Interiors

There are some dads who, in not giving their children everything they’d like materially, wind up giving them something of far greater value. That describes the father of Tim Eacret, proprietor of truck-upholstery specialist EZ Pete Interiors, who honors his dad's legacy in this week's Overdrive Radio.

May 26, 2025

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'Promise to a friend': The Wheel Jam Truck Show, staying alive

The Wheel Jam Truck Show in Huron, South Dakota, began in 2002 over beers among friends. It grew from nine trucks the first year to hundreds today. Before its founder passed in 2024, he charged two women with keeping it going.

May 7, 2025

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Canadian bull hauler-songwriter Mike Murchison, lucky to be alive, releases new record

The cattle hauler and trucker-songwriter Mike Murchison's new "Highway, Volume 1" record is his best to date, according to Long Haul Paul. Yet Murchison's hearing some of his songs differently after a brush with disaster loading livestock recently.

April 18, 2025

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Faces of the road: 19-year-old Jordan Foreman, on his past, present and future trucking

Long Haul Paul spoke to Foreman when he was but 18, still in high school, and already hauling grain in an Indiana farm operation. Foreman's advice for young men and women eyeing trucking careers: "Don’t get in a hurry, and learn from the old guys."

December 24, 2024

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The 'death-defying adventures,' songwriting, rig-rock rise of The Franklin County Trucking Company

The bad boys of trucking music are back with their fourth studio album in seven years, “The Death-Defying Adventures of The Franklin County Trucking Company.” It's a doozy of a listen, and Long Haul Paul here details the record with the bandleaders.

November 6, 2024

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Kinship with old-school trucking drives photojournalist's new exhibit

Photojournalist and Air Force vet James Year rode 25,000 miles with truckers of all stripes with a goal to illustrate OTR trucking culture "while it still remained." His "Stealing Fire" exhibit is now up in Syracuse, New York, detailing the journey.

April 16, 2024

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Meet Will Dodson, among the first 'graduates' in the under-21 pilot program

FMCSA's under-21 interstate trucker apprenticeship program is off to a sputtering start, yet for Will Dodson, among the first drivers to graduate to unsupervised OTR work in the program, it's the hopeful start of a long trucking career.

January 30, 2024