Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse

Jacinda is a third generation driver who grew up riding in her mother's belly dump, but never considered the job herself until coworkers at FedEx Express, where she spent ten years as a courier, kept asking why she did not drive trucks. She explains taking a ramp transport shift specifically to keep her afternoons with her kids, running limos and party buses on weekends, then spending two years with a commercial driver temp service taking a different trailer type nearly every day to find out what she liked. She is candid about learning flatbed securement from videos and asking customers to show her how they wanted their own freight strapped.

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Daiza Cummings was a multimedia journalist working news stations and aiming at sports reporting before a friend in Atlanta running hot shot loads put trucking in front of her. She describes two months at Milwaukee Area Technical College, learning to handle a semi through a Wisconsin winter, and starting at a third generation family carrier six days after passing her test, where she ran dry van for two and a half years. She now owns her truck and runs under Landstar, calling in from a truck stop in Cameron, Missouri with her dog Winter.

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Casey Duvall got her Class A to operate cranes for the operators local in Tuscaloosa, until a training course in Texas put her in a dump truck and changed her plans entirely. She explains how three or four years of dump truck work led her to cold contact Gentry and Sons after watching their videos, pitching herself with no over the road experience but a hazmat, a TWIC, and a passport, and how she later brought her partner Clayton over from building race engines. They team drive together now, calling in from Nebraska with six hours left to run.

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Lolo drove for UPS and worked warehouses before that, and spent her first years out of high school as an EMT on an ambulance. She explains that driving a semi never occurred to her until she saw a woman her own size doing it on TikTok, and how fast that turned into studying for a permit and signing on with a starter company. She also talks about lining up a Louisville delivery so she could make the Mid-America Trucking Show, and why she makes a point of visiting the booths nobody else is stopping at.

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Trucker Misty owned a tire and brake shop in Louisville for ten years before it stopped covering the bills, and got into trucking on the recommendation of friends already doing it. They walk through paying their own way through CDL school at fifty dollars a week, six months of training at a carrier, and buying their current truck from a small operator, with a first trailer purchased at the Mid-America Trucking Show. Six shows in, they argue this year was the most driver focused one yet.

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Trent is a hotshot trucker, truck camper, and cook who was building fence in Wyoming and pulling gooseneck trailers when a friend from junior high pitched him on running hotshot without a CDL. On the last day of the Mid-America Trucking Show he talks about meeting his sponsor and a long list of other creators face to face after months of only knowing them online. He also explains the habit he brings into every shipper and receiver, asking people how their day is going whether or not they want to talk, and why he thinks it changes more than just his own day.

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Rob Finch talks from the show floor on day two, where the transportation secretary took the stage, which is not something that normally happens at a truck show. He explains why he drove down from Pennsylvania this year rather than bringing his truck: the CAT in his 2006 Peterbilt locked up in Joplin, Missouri, and instead of paying a $10,000 tow he had a fellow Landstar driver bring out an RGN and haul the truck home. He also gets into the brand new engine going in for the long run, and what he set out to do with his Trucking Resources channel.

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Trucker DC joins from the floor of the Mid-America Trucking Show on day one, a former chef who lost his kitchen job during COVID and finally went and got the CDL his father had been pushing on him since he was 18. He talks about his wife leaving real estate to get her own license, three years of team driving across all 48 states and into Canada, and hauling pharmaceutical grade refrigerated freight. They also get into what six dollar diesel does to a small operator, and why running team means never having to park on an off ramp.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J75YMMkF_hs

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The Moose spent 17 years as a cable guy before ending up in the mountains and falling into heavy towing, work he did alongside the only two DOT officers covering six counties. He explains why moving back to the city killed the economics of towing, how he paid his own way through driving school while driving Uber to cover bills, and what his first year running open deck for TMC has been like. He calls in from a Flying J in Haw River, North Carolina, a few hours after a company driver backed into him.

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The Corvette Couple are a week out from their first Mid-America Trucking Show and planning it down to whether the parking field is paved, how the shuttle runs, and whether there is any food once the short show hours end. They explain how being company drivers means telling their planners where they need to be and letting the loads work around it, and why they want to document the logistics for other first timers. They also talk about arriving in trucking from the car world, and the show producers who were briefly confused by their reservation.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYrcMZXh_EU

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