Cover Story
Susie Surginer - Prime, Inc.
Susie Surginer proudly served in the U.S. Navy for seven years, where she worked as a torpedoman’s mate. After processing out, Susie headed for Florida and got her first taste of trucking by hauling concrete pipe locally for a construction company. “The trucks I drove soon got bigger and bigger, and before I knew it, I was pulling flatbed loads,” she remembers... more

Murphy's World
Wrong Turn Leads to Life Lessons
Dear Murphy,
I had been driving about two weeks when I was given a load of paper to New York. I followed the directions (almost) on my Qualcomm. Somehow I missed one turn and ended up on a little state highway winding through the mountains of eastern New York. I knew I had made a mistake, but I couldn’t find a place to turn around. The mountains of New York quickly
became the mountains of Vermont. more

Driven Women
Diary of a Trucker's Wife
Over the next few months, “Driven Women” will be featuring excerpts from a variety of women’s diaries. Don’t get excited…I’m not talking about that kind of
woman, and certainly not that kind of diary...more

Truckers Buddy
Trucker Buddy Fred Inspires Students to Work Hard
For the past nine years, Fred Steudle has been writing to a fifth grade class in his hometown of Calgary, Alberta. Trucker Buddy Fred has motivated the students in teacher Bev Biccum’s classroom to “work hard,” according to Mrs. Biccum.“He cares about the students and challenges them with creative and interesting activities,” Mrs. Biccum adds...more