Tag: faces of the road

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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

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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