Tag: faces of the road

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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

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How a 'Diesel Fool' became the 'Highway Preacher': Paul Leger

New Brunswick, Canada-headquartered Paul Leger speaks fluent trucker. On the road to his ministry around the Irving Big Stop in Salisbury, he ran U.S. lanes out of Toronto, then no-logbook Maritimes multi-stops before a spiritual transformation.

November 28, 2023

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'Chicken house closed, locked up, nobody home' | Introducing Hope Zvara and 'Trucking Yoga'

Is it possible to get through the Roadcheck inspection blitz without passing a single open scale? Flatbed independent Mike "Mustang" Crawford points the way. Long Haul Paul's talk with Zvara details the quality-of-life benefits of basic movement.

May 19, 2023

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Owner-op finds Chicago container hauling, long-term, more lucrative than OTR

Marine vet and owner-operator Carlos Alizondo hauled in military support-operations in Iraq, but also has war stories about container hauling in his hometown of Chicago. "These guys don't know how good they have it today," he said of current conditions.

January 23, 2023

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Faces of the Road: Gold Star Mother Jill Williams' eight-day pilgrimage to honor her son

Williams' son, Warrant Officer William Joseph McCotter, had served in the prestigious Third U.S. Infantry Regiment, known as “The Old Guard.” In 2021, Williams culminated what had been a six-year journey to honor him with Wreaths Across America.

December 19, 2022

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Faces of the Road: Betting on the 'highest common denominator' with Road Dog's Jimmy Mac

Long Haul Paul Marhoefer guest-hosts, in part, this edition of Overdrive Radio, featuring one among his Faces of the Road oral histories with none other than Dave Nemo Weekends host Jimmy Mac about his elevation of trucking talk radio.

October 21, 2022

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Faces of the Road: Dave Nemo on history at 50 years in trucking radio

Long Haul Paul's interview with Nemo speaks to the historical importance of all-night radio formats, birthed in part with Nemo's initial mentor Charlie Douglas at New Orleans 870 WWL AM, for overnight truckers, including himself in the 1980s and '90s.

June 7, 2022

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How William 'Porkchop' Honey and his dump truck saved dozens

The latest in "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's "Faces of the Road" series chronicles what's now the stuff of blue-collar lore around Indianapolis -- operator Honey's act of heroism to cut off a high-speed chase headed straight for a late-night paving crew.

May 10, 2022

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Faces of the Road: Log hauler and writer Gord Magill, student of the ice roads

The latest in Long Haul Paul's series of oral histories and profiles features Canadian-born hauler Gord Magill, who's run the ice roads, hauled logs in New Zealand and road trains in Australia, written on Canadian politics for Newsweek, and more.

March 8, 2022