Cover Story
Larry and Noemi LeBlanc have found happiness and job satisfaction as an owner-operator team, and they attribute much of their success to the Expedited/Long-Haul Division at Covenant Transport. Like many owner-operators at the company, the LeBlancs started out as company drivers. Larry wasn’t sure about going back to OTR after doing some regional driving, but Noemi talked him into it. “It was always my dream to travel the United States on a horse. Now I drive a big truck all over the country,” she says. Larry trained Noemi as his team partner and they were ready to hit the road. more

Murphy's World
I have seen a lot of crazy things, but last December I experienced the worst day of all time. I had pulled into a truck stop to get fuel. The fuel islands were full, and most were stacked two-deep with trucks. I saw one that had only one truck, so I pulled behind it to wait my turn. more

Driven Women
GG—Truck stops are getting to be more about the family and stuffed shirt business traveler than they are the trucker. There used to be a time when truckers were the preferred customers, now we’re beginning to feel like second-rate citizens. more

Trucker Buddy
The students in Donna Lavold’s third-grade class in Waupaca, WI are not only big fans of the Green Bay Packers, they think their Trucker Buddy, Harold “Bruce” Moss III, is a hero, too. One student, Kya, nominated Moss because, “He is the greatest Trucker Buddy, and he’s a Packer fan just like me!” more