Owner-operators Rick and Terry Henderson call Rittman, Ohio, home. Yet the creature comforts in what Terry notes is the "eighth house truck" they've operated, their 2022 Peterbilt 389 with a 144-inch ARI big bunk, bring home to the road, where they haul arms, ammunition and explosives (AA&E) freight for the military, leased to Bennett. "This will be our pathway to retirement," Terry said of what's well-known as a lucrative freight niche, which the pair first got into in 2020 leased to a different company.
Yet she could also easily be talking about the new build. There's another truck in their tentative plan as it stands now, but "I don't know how you top this one," Terry said, a sentiment expressed by Rick as well.
She's a looker inside and out, no doubt.
The 2022 Peterbilt 389 is here pictured with the USS Constitution at Boston Harbor.
The layout for the ARI sleeper is rear door, front shower, with the pull-down bed/dinette set up on the driver side toward the back.
Terry worked with ARI to oversee the interior finishes from bottom to top, all the way to crown molding above the kitchen cabinets.
The Hendersons met for the first time "on a CB in a traffic jam," Terry said. She was a Schneider company driver. Rick was hauling yachts, among other freight, and since they got married in 2009, "we’ve been teaming," Terry said. They bought their first truck in 2011 after working through past credit issues to finance the purchase. When they got married "we had horrible credit -- we were like two train wrecks that came together."
