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Never underestimate a South Carolina watermelon hauler: Carroll Fulmer and Leon Everette

The latest in “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer’s “Faces of the Road” series with country legend and current gospel singer Leon Everette: “I was surprised to learn that Everette attributed his past success in the music business in part to a trucker by the name of Carroll Fulmer. … Yeah, that Carroll Fulmer …”

September 25, 2019

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A truck with its own Facebook page: Mark and Holly O’Donnell’s “Family Tree”

A big winner among several at the first-ever American Pride Truck Charity benefit show for St. Christopher, held in truck parking at GATS, was “The Family Tree”, a mural-wrapped 2018 Peterbilt 579 owned and operated by the O’Donnells, of Tennessee. It’s intended “to celebrate the history and culture of trucking,” Holly says.

September 9, 2019

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Sisters of the highway: Trucker donating kidney to fellow hauler

One hauler (and kidney) to another. “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer tells the story of West Virginia-based oil tank hauler Elizabeth Sweet’s 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 ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em wrong’

Hooks and her 2014 389: “I learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. There’s people out there in Texas …, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what I’ve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.”

May 13, 2019

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‘They’re not used to seeing a woman haul steel’ — Meet Md.-based Nikki Stewart

“There’s 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. They’re not used to seeing women hauling steel. When they see you’re a woman, they have to give you some kind of label.”  Hear more from Stewart in this ‘Faces of the Road’ installment from Long Haul Paul.

May 1, 2019

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Nearly six months without a paycheck: One lease operator’s 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 “all I had left was my word.”

March 5, 2019

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61 years trucking — 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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‘…. the day they put an e-log in my truck’: 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 Paul’s latest in the “Faces of the Road” series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans, out with a new record, “Church of the Blues.” As Slim puts it: “I’ve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.”

December 4, 2018

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Thanksgiving ramblings on the trucking life in times gone by

Roger Ruble was “from that onetime breed of ex-drivers who would build a truck stop of their own.” 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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‘Highway Hellion’ Meredith Ochs’ new history of women in rock music

Most in trucking might best know Ochs as cohost of the former Freewheelin’ program on Sirius XM’s 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: ’18 wheels and a dozen roses’ singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea and her new record

“Long Haul Paul” sits down with a trucking-country legend for a talk, in part, about her new “Pretty Bird” record: “In 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. …”

October 22, 2018