July 22nd, 2008 @ MReed // No Comments
Truck drivers do a lot more work than most people realize. They have to pay closer attention than people who drive smaller vehicles, and they work long hours, and they don’t always get paid well or get home to see their families on special occasions or get to see their son’s little league games.
Mostly, they do what they do for a paycheck, and because they enjoy it, but also so people can walk into their local stores and get the things that they want and need. And they add up miles.
Will Farver, a trucker for 17 years, has racked up over two million of them. He was recently honored by his employer, D.M. Bowman, with the company’s Million Miler Award for the second time.
He’s also earned the company’s Highway Angel Award for pulling a grandmother and two children out of a car that had been in a wreck and appeared to be about to catch fire. He wasn’t trying to be heroic – he just knew that the family in that car could have just as easily been his own.
He was doing what he thought anyone else would have done, and when he was finished he went back to driving. It’s his job. It’s what he does. The beauty of it all is that the company he works for sees it and appreciates it.
Tags: D.M. Bowman, mileage record, Million Miler Award, trucking news, will faver
