Truck Parking Club: The Clubhouse

The Corvette Couple run one truck together after decades around Corvettes and Trans Ams. He rode along with an uncle hauling cattle as a kid, then spent years turning wrenches and running a Corvette shop before deciding, once the kids were grown, that it was time to see the country. Dea works the phones with dispatch, shippers, and receivers from the passenger seat and plans the stops, so the trip amounts to more than survival and miles.

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Josh grew up on a farm and served seven and a half years in the Navy as a corpsman before working as a Harley-Davidson tech in Phoenix, where supporting five kids on shop pay pushed him toward a CDL. He explains how he wound up with an automatic restriction he is still working to remove, after being told his carrier ran manuals and discovering only the lease operators did. He now hauls equipment for Valley Transportation out of Grand Meadow, Minnesota, running step deck up to eleven axles, and his favorite load so far was a batch of military Humvees.

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The G.I. Joe Trucker checks in from Branchburg, New Jersey during the holiday push, parked off I-287 about 45 minutes outside New York City. He explains how he plans each day around a known place to shut down instead of gambling on a full truck stop late at night, handling fuel and showers mid trip so the end of the shift is already settled. He also settles the pork roll question and breaks down why New Jersey has more out of state football fans than anywhere else.

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Shawn of Trucking Life with Shawn came to trucking about 17 years ago looking for stability after some wrong turns in his twenties, starting at Rosedale before stints at Heartland Express and local work, then returning. He now works from the office as a driver coach alongside safety and dispatch, and still goes out himself to recover trucks when a driver has a family emergency or lands in the hospital. He explains why a safety department staffed by former drivers lands differently, and how the ELD clock turned parking into the planning problem that shapes every day.

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Fast Lane Felicia came up through motocross and motorcycle racing, spent her twenties climbing those ranks, and got a CDL in June with an eye on eventually driving for a race team. She talks about how much further connections carried her than raw talent, how little room there is for women on factory teams, and what five months of actually living on the road has been like. The call comes from Hesperia, California, after storms and wrecks on Cajon Pass made shutting down for the night the easy call.

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Nate 'The Rambler' Mitchell wanted to fly, and lost partial vision in one eye to a bottle rocket on the Fourth of July in 1999 when he was 16. He explains how the FAA eventually closed the door on commercial flying after his medical retirement from the Army, and how the same eye left him with a CDL restricted to intrastate driving, which meant three years of local dump truck and flatbed work to prove a safe record before the rules were streamlined. He talks about what finally got him cleared to run over the road, and why the draw was always the exploration.

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The Ramblin' Nomad spent ten years in behavioral health care, working homeless shelters and a psych ward in Albuquerque, before a skateboarding injury ended that job and a stretch driving Uber convinced him he could make a living behind the wheel. He talks about the Greyhound ride to Springfield, Missouri for CDL school, five and a half years at Prime, and a two week stop at a carrier that never paid him. He now runs flatbed for Central Oregon Trucking Company, calling in from Essex, California with a load headed for Tennessee and then Minnesota.

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Wolfgang Wendland returns on his birthday for a broader conversation about why drivers should speak up. He argues the gaps in this industry are obvious within a week on the road, that staying quiet amounts to complacency, and that recruiters selling a version of the job that does not exist are a big reason capable people burn out and let their CDLs lapse. He makes the case for experienced drivers putting honest expectations in front of newcomers, whether or not they ever post about the larger issues.

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The G.I. Joe Trucker is a Marine Corps veteran from New Jersey who used his GI Bill for CDL school in 2012, after his daughter's grandfather talked him into it. He describes washing out of his first company over the switch to automatics, getting his real start at Frozen Food Express following a bus ride from Newark to Fort Worth, and running local for eight years before going over the road. He now hauls concert and stage freight, including a Dierks Bentley show outside Pittsburgh and a first load that put his truck on the floor of the Vikings stadium.

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Chad Keegan got his CDL in 2008 out of a factory job, then spent years watching carriers hand him their worn out trucks and take them back once he had fixed them up. He explains how that pushed him to cash out a 401k for a 1983 Kenworth K100 cabover he found sitting behind a building in Fincastle, Virginia, and the year of work it took before the truck hauled anything. He also gets into running his own authority, why he stays out of California and the congested Northeast, and the cabinets of trucking memorabilia he has collected.

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