Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, in business as an owner-operator for decades, took Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills along for part of a run of 3,300 lbs. of stainless tubing from Knoxville, Tenn., bound for Iowa. Along the way, as Dills explains, Bowers told a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships in any successful owner-operator or small fleet business. Recorded along the way in Bowers' own custom stretched 2005 Peterbilt 379, the talk here runs through an array of topics toward an expansive profile of a man at home in his business. "I've never worked a day in my life," Bowers says. Read more about Bowers via this link: http://www.overdriveonline.com/one-independents-comeback-from-the-brink-a-run-with-ted-bowers/