If you’ve been on the road for any significant amount of time, you’ve likely had those moments of conflicting thoughts about doing something else. Maybe a…
Browsing: Poetry In Motion
I sure love running the big roads. Those wide-open interstates offer relatively uninterrupted travel and plenty of room to set the cruise and mind my own…
How’s your summer going, folks? Had enough of this 2020 drama yet? Things have certainly been changing at a break-neck pace, but I truly hope your…
The other day I was talking to my uncle David on the phone. He and I are the only two remaining long-haul drivers in my family.…
Do you like fancy trucks? The kind with elegant paint schemes, shimmering chrome, and polished aluminum? Of course, you do. We all do. There are certainly…
These are some crazy times, aren’t they?! This virus has thrown everything into a tailspin. Hopefully, by the time this poem goes to print, we’ll see…
Some of us in this trucking industry tend to have a sentimental soft spot for certain trucks we’ve had. We may even give them names or…
Hallelujah, y’all! It’s finally March! We are quickly approaching my favorite time of year. Out here where I run, I’ve already started seeing early signs of…
If you’re reading this in the February issue, then that means you’re probably just as frustrated with old man winter by now as I am. But…
Happy New Year, everyone! Time to make some resolutions to ourselves that we likely won’t recall by next month. Hopefully, you have something exciting to look…
This one is sort of short and sweet. While talking to some friends of mine who are in the trucking industry, we often end up talking…
Every month, for several years, I’ve written little poems. Mostly about our trucking lives, in eighteen-wheeled homes. I’m really not a poet, I just like to…
There sure is a lot of buzz going around about driverless cars and trucks being tested and operating on our public highways. I am certainly not…
This poem is a story about Jimmy and Sarah. Jimmy is the kind of boy who lives for the moment – the free-spirited type who tends…
Today, I was talking to Erik of 10-4 Magazine on the phone and we were discussing an idea for a poem. Amidst our conversation, I commented…