A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford.
“They send a ticket for you to get on a Greyhound bus, and you take the Greyhound bus to Gary, Indiana, and then we went straight to Hammond, where they had their school. It was like I stepped into boot camp. It was different. It ain’t the world you came from.
“But driving the truck is fun. It’s fuuuuuuuun. I don’t mind the ruggedness of it. I like that you can be a woman in this day and time and do it. And when you’re on the road, every day you can wake up in a different state. Whether you get paid good or bad, you’re getting paid to see this country.”
