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In today's edition, we’re taking a run back through another episode of the Over the Road podcast series -- hopefully engrossing listening to take you through a long run and perhaps a little diversion from the political rancor of our chaotic time. This is episode 2 in the OTR series -- originally titled “Why We Drive.” Regular readers will know we produced Over the Road in collaboration with PRX’s Radiotopia podcast network, and it was hosted by our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer. In the episode, Marhoefer and producer Lacy Roberts spent time with two operators in Grand Island, Neb., owner-operator Jared Sidlo as well as Kenyette Godhigh-Bell, based out of Florida. In April 2019 when the interview was conducted, Godhigh-Bell was right at one year in trucking, pulling a reefer as a company driver with Grand Island Express. The visit with her featured in the podcast also included some time in an owner-operator training course of sorts at Grand Island headquarters -- no matter of chance, as it were.

Less than two years since we talked with her on the anniversary of maiden voyage with Grand Island Express, she's now out trucking with her own authority in a 2017 Freightliner Cascadia near identical to the company truck Marhoefer describes in the episode, minus as yet the "Lady K" insignia on the door. She’s power only at the moment with her authority active for just a couple of months – part of the wave of new authorities since mid-summer host Todd Dills wrote about in this story a month or so ago: https://www.overdriveonline.com/volatile-year-growing-pains-in-app-freight-pricing-value-of-negotiation/

As you listen to this OTR episode, keep Godhigh-Bell’s present in mind as she speaks from the past –- wonderful, simply put, isn't it, to see a plan come to fruition.

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