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IN-BRIEF
Mack’s sixth RoadLife episode features pair of drivers from Western Canada
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Mack Trucks’ sixth episode of its RoadLife series titled “Long Way From Home” features two western Canadian long-haul truck drivers.
Bill Flynn, originally from Newfoundland, has spent the last 14 years working in Edmonton, Alta., as a driver for bulk transport company FL Carriers.
Hauling raw materials for the concrete industry, Flynn’s truck weighs in at up to 63,500 kg when fully loaded.
“When you look at a truck driver, it’s a lot of sacrifice. It’s long hours,” Flynn said. “Your social life is not what a normal person’s social life is. I don’t think people realize how much you have to do to make it all work.”
Dawson Creek, B.C.’s Dwayne Hamann is the second driver featured in the series. Hamann
is a driver for Peace Country Petroleum, which serves portions of B.C., Alberta, and the Yukon, delivering shipments of diesel and gasoline and traveling up to 1,000 km each day.
“Everything that comes to your town comes on trucks,” Hamann
said. “Guys are working 24/7 just to make sure the shelves are full and your gas tank is full.”
RoadLife shines a light on drivers who work long hours and spend significant time away from home to ensure goods are deliv- ered across North America.
“Not being home, that’s the biggest challenge for me,” Hamann said, who carries a reminder with him at all times: the names of his daughters tattooed on his fore- arms. “You look at those some days and you remember what you’re doing it for.”
Flynn embraces the life of a truck driver, and couldn’t see himself doing anything else for a living.
“How many people do you know who have worked a job all their life, and they get up every morning with a lump in their stomach because they don’t like their job and they really don’t want to go to work?” Flynn said. “That’s stress- ful. I’ve never felt that way. I never once wished that I was doing something else.”
RoadLife’s “Long Way From Home” is available on roadlife.
tv and Amazon Prime Video. Viewers can also access RoadLife bonus content from Mack Trucks’
social channels – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. TW
STA hands out $5,000 in scholarships
REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN
The Saskatchewan Trucking Association (STA) doled out its annual schol- arships recently, with three students receiving a combined $5,000.
The recipients must have a family member who owns or is employed by a Saskatchewan trucking company.
Emily Galey of Swift Current was awarded a $3,000 scholarship; Liam Kerr of Moose Jaw, and Zoe Selimos of Regina both received $1,000.
Scholarships are handed out each year. In addition to being a dependent of an owner or employee of an STA member company, applicants must
be a high school graduate, have applied to a post-secondary institution, submit transcripts, and complete the scholarship application no later than June 30. TW
THIS MONTH’S CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across Down
1 ’06-debut International tractor 5 Labour’s repair-invoice partner
8 Axle and leaf spring connector (1,4)
9 Gear _____ (clumsy shifter)
1 Winnipeg bulk transporter, ____ Hauling 2 Mullen Group’s Alberta HQ town
3 Really wrecked, in other words (5,4)
4 DPF soot cleanses, briefly
10 Carrier based in Vittoria, ON (8,5)
12 Bean Town
13 Canadian nickel critter
16 Diesel fuel reservoirs, frequently (4,4,5)
19 Documents processed by Customs (5,4)
21 Arlo Guthrie song restaurateur
22 Windshield crack cause, commonly
23 11-Down reefer line
12 Truck auction participants 14 Allied or Atlas (3,4)
15 Big name in rental rigs 17 GMC’s Chevy Titan clone 18 Nasty winter precipitation 20 Slippery Snowbelt surface
5 Tire gauge abbr. (1,1,1)
6 CB or scanner
7 Snowbelt windshield cleaning tool
11 Trailer brand with Chicago corporate HQ
12 TruckWest•October2018
TW-184 Oct. © 2018 M. Jackson
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