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Listen: Talent Search winner Taylor Barker’s new musical bonds; Brumbach Stephens hauls one giant tree
Listen: Owner-operator and Trucker Talent Search winner on trucking, music and life in general in-studio from Nashville, likewise former small fleet owner now with Wilbanks Trucking, Brumbach Stephens, on the haul of a lifetime with this year’s Capitol Christmas tree.
November 29, 2019
Business
Scenes from the Capitol Christmas Tree’s stop in Nashville, with Wilbanks Trucking’s Brumbach Stephens
Wilbanks Trucking’s Brumbach Stephens didn’t exactly to expect to be where he is today, behind the wheel of this specially wrapped Kenworth W990 and toting the well-overlength trailer that currently houses a 60-foot Blue Spruce on its tour across the country bound for the U.S. Capitol. Stephens calls the christmas-tree haul a “once in a lifetime deal.”
November 22, 2019
Business
News roundup, Nov. 4: Kenworth W990 to transport U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree, lane closures set for I-65S bridge in Louisville, NASTC’s 2019 ‘Best Broker’
The 55th U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree will be transported and delivered by a custom-wrapped Kenworth W990. The three right lanes of the I-65 South Kennedy Bridge between southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, will close Friday night. NASTC recognized longtime driver advocate Buster Anderson for years of service, and Brenny Transportation as “Best Broker.”
November 4, 2019
Business
New Mexico-based heavy-haul fleet to carry U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree later this year
Artesia, New Mexico-based Wilbanks Trucking Services has been selected as the trucking company that will haul the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree across the country to Washington, D.C. This year’s tree will make its way to the U.S. Capitol from Carson National Forest in New Mexico behind a Kenworth W990.
September 5, 2019
Business
U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree begins cross-nation journey
During its journey from Montana to the nation’s capital, the tree will make stops in communities in Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Missouri and Kentucky before completing the trip on Monday, Nov. 27, when it will be delivered to the U.S. Capitol.
November 10, 2017
Life
Owner-operator delivers Capitol Christmas Tree after 4,000-mile trip in Kenworth T680
Driver Gary Amoth, owner of the 120-truck Gary Amoth Trucking in Twin Falls, Idaho, transported the 80-foot Englemann spruce in his specially-decaled Kenworth T680 from Idaho to the Capitol. The tree’s tour included 27 stops between Idaho and D.C.
November 30, 2016
Channel 19
Scenes from the Capitol Christmas Tree’s Nashville stop
The Capitol Christmas Tree’s third-to-last stop on its route across the country for a Monday delivery in D.C. One happy daughter put her signature on the trailer, joining hundreds of others to have done so this year.
November 25, 2016
Business
Trucker hauling Capitol Christmas Tree calls cross-country trip the ‘haul of a lifetime’
The trip, which began Nov. 6, will be the longest journey in his 33-year career as a trucker. Amoth is the owner of Twin Falls, Idaho-based Gary Amoth Trucking, a fleet of 125 trucks.
November 17, 2016
Life
Christmas tree delivered to U.S. Capitol
The U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree was delivered Friday, Nov. 20 to Washington, D.C., by Lynden Transport driver John Schank.
November 25, 2015
Channel 19
Christmas in November — drone video of the Capitol tree haul
And: Pictures of the loading of the Rockefeller Center tree in Gardiner, N.Y., earlier this month, care of reader Scott LeVan.
November 21, 2015
Life
Kenworth T680 begins cross-country tour with Capitol Christmas Tree
The 2015 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree made its first tour stop in the lower 48 states Saturday, Nov. 7, with an event at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry and Lake Union Park.
November 10, 2015
Business
Capitol Christmas Tree delivered to D.C. after trucking-sponsored 2,700-mile trip
The special Kenworth T880 carrying this year’s U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree ended its trek Tuesday when the 75-foot white spruce cut down in Minnesota last month ended its 2,700-mile trip to D.C.
December 3, 2014
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