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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

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Why $6,000 from Chicago to Long Island is no longer enough

Huck Northcutt is a former Army cook turned flatbed driver. This Face of the Road recounts nightmare loads and what trips just aren't worth the money anymore.

July 30, 2018

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Faces of the Road: HHG hauler/American author Finn Murphy

Long Haul Paul Marhoefer’s detailing of how young Murphy “acquired a love for ‘low company and hard work’ while working at Dan’s Service Station in Cos Cob, Connecticut,” and more in a life and business hauling HHG, part of it chronicled in his “The Long Haul” book.

July 16, 2018

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‘Reverend Haney,’ shapeshifting sin-master with a trucking conscience, hangs it up

Long Haul Paul on the conversions and ingenuity and numerous work-arounds of a hauler who’s put up his traveling shoes for good: “An Unseen Smith was forging His divine stamp on the old forger. No one knew more about sin than Haney, and everyone knew it. No one knew how to get around stuff like him either.” …

July 2, 2018

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Faces of the road: Dawn L. at the diesel desk and her extended family

From her childhood in the Mojave Desert to befriending professional truckers, Long Haul Paul stops to learn more about Dawn L., a Pilot diesel cashier.

May 14, 2018

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Faces of the Road: Retired hauler and fleet owner Theldon Thornburgh

The latest in Long Haul Paul’s series capturing voices from the road: Theldon Thornburgh reflects on his long career, beginning in a 1930s/40s gas-powered International: “I was pretty lucky. I think I traveled 5.2 million miles and never did have a chargeable accident…”

April 30, 2018

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Faces of the Road: Mary Gauthier and her new record of songs written with military veterans

How “Mercy Now” folk singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier came to pen the 11 tracks on her new “Rifles and Rosary Beads” record working with military veterans as cowriters, the latest in “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer’s “Faces of the Road” series.

April 10, 2018