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Feature Story:<br />

rock and roll Hauling<br />

Security Guard-Turned<br />

Trucker<br />

On Trucking<br />

From the publisher<br />

Money Matters<br />

puzzle<br />

On the Cover<br />

staff<br />

General Manager: Megan Hicks<br />

Sales Manager: Jerry Critser<br />

Editor-in-Chief: lyndon Finney<br />

Staff Writers: Dorothy Cox, Cliff<br />

Abbott, Aprille Hanson, Derek Hinton<br />

Art Director: Cecilia M. Green<br />

Jamie Adcock<br />

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Meg larcinese<br />

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Greg McClendon<br />

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Mitzi Wright<br />

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Chairman/CEO: Mark Schiffmacher<br />

CFO: Susan M. Humphreville<br />

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Work Well, Live Well, Earn Well<br />

Andrew, Tell our reader audience who you are and your<br />

involvement at Boyle Transportation.<br />

My brother Marc and I own our company, and we operate it<br />

along with a dedicated group of experienced coworkers. We’re<br />

in the second generation of family ownership. My folks started<br />

our company in 1971, and Marc and I grew up working here. In<br />

addition to running our company, we are active leaders in the<br />

American Trucking Associations and other trade groups. We are<br />

committed to this industry and to improving its<br />

operating conditions.<br />

How do you pay your team drivers?<br />

We take an untraditional approach<br />

to compensation. You know how most<br />

long-haul driving jobs are paid by the<br />

mile? Drivers show up for work each<br />

week, and they’re ready, willing and able<br />

to earn. However, they have no control or<br />

predictability over their paycheck – some<br />

weeks they do well, other weeks they do<br />

poorly. That volatility makes it tough for<br />

people to plan their<br />

personal budget.<br />

We’ve changed that dynamic entirely<br />

at Boyle Transportation. If you’re over<br />

the road for a full week, your guaranteed<br />

minimum earnings will be the equivalent<br />

of running 5,500 miles – regardless<br />

of how many miles you actually drive.<br />

That’s $1,430 per person per week minimum<br />

for first year teams. If your actual<br />

earnings tally (miles, stops, detention,<br />

etc.) is greater than the minimum, the<br />

greater amount is paid.<br />

We expect our professional drivers to be safe, responsible,<br />

and productive representatives of the company. In exchange,<br />

we provide them a compensation structure that affords a steady,<br />

strong, predictable paycheck.<br />

What about home time?<br />

Well, we have an abnormal home time policy. Our teams<br />

earn two days off per week over the road, whereas most carriers<br />

only allow one day off per week OTR. Our teams either work on<br />

a regional basis, where they are home weekends or alternate long<br />

weekends, or they go over the road for 3-4 weeks and then take<br />

6-8 days at home.<br />

Although this home time policy is quite liberal, we’ve found it<br />

to be a big factor in our retention success. After all, why<br />

work so hard if you can’t enjoy time with family, fishing, or getting<br />

that honey-do list done?<br />

Mark & Andrew Boyle<br />

How does that translate into annual earnings?<br />

Each of our team drivers earns about $57,000 to $70,000<br />

per year. Keep in mind, our teams are only over the road about<br />

260 or 270 days a year. Although a few driving jobs may enable<br />

someone to earn a similar annual amount, the person typically<br />

has to work far more days to do so.<br />

What’s different about your company?<br />

We do important work. We haul military commodities<br />

for soldiers and medicine for patients, and we do it very well.<br />

Our employees, from management to<br />

professional drivers to maintenance to<br />

administration, feel a tremendous sense<br />

of pride in this mission. We can’t accept<br />

mediocrity.<br />

When I go to visit customers, they<br />

frequently offer unsolicited compliments<br />

about our professional drivers.<br />

They tell us how great our drivers look<br />

in uniform, that they’re good communicators,<br />

and that they’re pleasant and<br />

know their job. I find those compliments<br />

tremendously gratifying, because<br />

they mean that we’ve made good hiring<br />

choices, and that we’ve given our people<br />

the resources to do their jobs properly.<br />

Any other thoughts you’d like to share<br />

with our readers?<br />

This is a tough industry, make no<br />

mistake. Some days the driving job can<br />

be really interesting and enjoyable, and<br />

other days it’s just plain work. But we<br />

try to apply the golden rule – treat people<br />

the way you’d want to be treated.<br />

In addition to the big things like guaranteed compensation<br />

and extensive home time, we do little things that demonstrate<br />

our investment in our people. We pay for smartphones and issue<br />

them to professional drivers. We pay for satellite radio service<br />

in the truck. We pay for uniforms. We pay for $10,000 worth<br />

of onboard safety technologies. We even provide professional<br />

drivers their own corporate email address – just as we would for<br />

any other employee.<br />

Why do we do these things?<br />

While we spend a lot of money on vehicles, technology, and<br />

facilities, our most important assets are – and always will be –<br />

our people.<br />

Interested in Boyle Transportation?<br />

Go to www.DriveBoyle.com or 800.442.40<strong>04</strong>, x3<br />

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New Bose Ride®<br />

Seats Make Driving with DART More Comfortable Than Ever.<br />

What happens when a company that produces<br />

legendary products for your ears applies their<br />

brainpower to your whole body? You get the<br />

Bose Ride ® system—the first major innovation in driver<br />

seating in over 30 years. And what happens when a company<br />

that’s already known for having one of the lowest<br />

driver turnover rates looks for new ways to keep their<br />

drivers happy? You get a decision everyone is comfortable<br />

with.<br />

“Just this month, we<br />

started installing the Bose<br />

seat in our vehicles,” said<br />

Joe Kilgore, General Manager<br />

of Dartco, a member<br />

of the Dart Network.<br />

“We’re grateful for the hard<br />

work and dedication our<br />

drivers put in their job<br />

every day. This is the latest<br />

way we’re giving back to<br />

and investing in<br />

our drivers.”<br />

Here’s how Bose Ride works: When you’re bouncing<br />

over a rough road, its precision sensors detect bumps and<br />

intelligently calculate a response based on your position<br />

and speed. Then, an electromagnetic motor in the chair<br />

generates counteracting forces to protect you from up to<br />

90% of bone-jarring vibrations—helping you drive more<br />

miles, recover faster and maybe lengthen your career.<br />

{ }<br />

The chair generates<br />

counteracting forces to<br />

protect you from up to 90%<br />

of bone-jarring vibrations.<br />

Kilgore added, “Our drivers spend a lot of time in their<br />

truck, and being comfortable while they drive is important.<br />

When we heard how much our drivers could possibly<br />

benefit from the Bose seats, we jumped at the opportunity<br />

to serve them.”<br />

Long haul drivers who’ve<br />

been with the company<br />

more than three consecutive<br />

years, and drive a company<br />

truck with less than 250,000<br />

miles, will be among the first<br />

to enjoy the seats. In addition,<br />

Dart Transit Company<br />

is offering Bose Ride as an<br />

alternate to its sign-on bonus<br />

for newly contracted owner<br />

operators. Current owner<br />

operators can purchase<br />

the seat at Dart’s cost, plus<br />

installation. The Bose seat will also be an added incentive<br />

for driver trainers, who will receive seats for both the<br />

driver and passenger—all free of charge.<br />

So, in a career where bumpy roads shake your whole<br />

body and employee turnover shakes up the whole industry,<br />

Bose and Dart have teamed up to make your road to<br />

success a lot smoother.<br />

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AccountAbility in cSA title<br />

Today’s world is characterized by thousands upon<br />

thousands of rules and regulations.<br />

Follow the book, we’re told, or you’ll pay the<br />

consequences.<br />

That theory so frustrated a former boss that he ordered<br />

everyone in his department to place a sign on their wall to<br />

help them make intelligent decisions.<br />

“The rule of common sense is practiced here,” it read.<br />

The rule of common sense<br />

says that a person should<br />

not be held accountable for<br />

something for which they are<br />

not responsible.<br />

Applied to the trucking<br />

industry that means that<br />

neither a carrier nor a driver<br />

should be dinged for being<br />

involved in an accident caused<br />

by another person, usually a<br />

four-wheeler.<br />

Ever since Compliance,<br />

Safety, Accountability was<br />

introduced in 2010 by the<br />

Federal Motor Carrier Safety<br />

Administration and which is<br />

designed to reduce crashes,<br />

injuries and fatalities involving<br />

commercial motor vehicles, trucking stakeholders have<br />

been concerned about the lack of accountability in large<br />

truck accidents.<br />

After all, the program didn’t take into account whether<br />

or not the commercial vehicle should be held accountable.<br />

It simply made no common sense to penalize a carrier<br />

and its driver if the trucker was driving safely down the<br />

road only to have the inattentive driver of a four-wheeler<br />

slams his or her vehicle into the back of the big rig.<br />

But reading between the lines of CSA material published<br />

by the FMCSA, the agency was more concerned about crash<br />

predictability that it was how its scoring system impacts<br />

the driver population.<br />

FMCSA finally agreed to conduct a study on whether<br />

it was feasible determine accountability in large truck<br />

crashes and came back with an answer last month that<br />

made no common sense: the costs of crash accountability<br />

outweigh the benefits.<br />

And, the agency said, in predicting future crashes, it<br />

really didn’t matter whether the commercial vehicle was<br />

held accountable.<br />

Tell that to a driver who’s been involved in a couple of<br />

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accidents the past 12 months — neither for which he or she<br />

was accountable — and now that driver may be penalized<br />

by his or her own company and in the future might be<br />

labeled a driving liability by prospective employers.<br />

Last time we checked, there was a driver shortage, so<br />

in everyone’s estimation the industry needs to hang on<br />

every driver it can.<br />

The agency gets its information about crashes from the<br />

police accident report (PAR) that local, county and state<br />

law enforcement officers complete, and the FMCSA report<br />

did point out correctly that many times it was difficult to<br />

ascertain from a PAR who should be held accountable for<br />

the accident.<br />

What’s more, the agency said, it doesn’t receive PARs<br />

from state agencies and that those reports might<br />

be difficult to obtain because of the requirements<br />

for secure data collection and storage, which<br />

would create a significant, albeit unknown, cost to<br />

the agency.<br />

The agency obtained the PARs it used for the study<br />

from two national datasets: the National Highway<br />

Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis<br />

Reporting System (FARS) and the National Motor<br />

Vehicle Crash Causation Survey (NMVCCS).<br />

While it didn’t say so, data from these two<br />

sources is usually available only months or<br />

years after the accident occurs, and a trucker could<br />

be dinged and penalized long before accountability is<br />

determine based on FARS and NMVCCS.<br />

The FMCSA says the report is not its final answer and<br />

it’s asked for comments on what it is presented.<br />

If you want to comment, go to regulations.gov and enter<br />

docket ID FMCSA-2014-0177 and speak your peace.<br />

Surely, the FMCSA can come up with a method<br />

that won’t ding drivers and carriers when the other<br />

party is at fault.<br />

To the agency, we say we’re holding you accountable<br />

for doing so.<br />

We suspect that the American Trucking Associations<br />

and other trucking stakeholders will keeping hounding the<br />

FMCSA until the agency comes up with a solution to the<br />

problem.<br />

After all, why should a driver or a carrier be penalized<br />

(or a driver lose his or her job or not be able to find<br />

gainful employment) because they were hit by a drunk<br />

or distracted driver or someone who runs a red light and<br />

smacks into the side of a truck. It only makes common<br />

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Megan Hicks<br />

EntErtainmEnt Hauling<br />

In this issue, we’re highlighting one of the more glamorous<br />

jobs a trucker might land: working as a roadie for top<br />

entertainment. See page 24.<br />

We are all about big bucks in Big Money Trucking, but<br />

sometimes the stars align and you find yourself in a job<br />

that delivers a hefty paycheck and some weighty perks. Like<br />

rubbing elbows with super stars, singers, football players,<br />

NASCAR drivers and more. Sure, we all love traditional<br />

benefits: insurance, paid vacations, pet programs. But there<br />

aren’t many jobs that also tout being able to stand stage<br />

left while a gigantic country star belts out popular tunes in<br />

front of thousands and thousands of adoring fans. You’re<br />

on a stage (maybe just not center stage) with someone that<br />

millions of folks whould give an appendage to be that close<br />

to. You see the hard work that goes into superstar success.<br />

The likes of Carrie Underwood and Kenny Chesney look<br />

amazing when they step on stage, with the music playing<br />

perfectly. But as a hauler in the entertainment world, you<br />

get a peek into the loads of work that takes place long<br />

before the lights come up and the bass kicks in. Sound like a<br />

trucking gig you might like?<br />

Of course, rare--if not completely non-existent--is the<br />

trucking gig that doesn’t require some long hours and<br />

strenuous tasks. And hauling in the entertainment world is<br />

no exception. It’s late nights and usually involves physically<br />

loading unique, expensive, important equipment (massive<br />

drum sets, speakers, etc). But still cool, right?<br />

When people think trucking, they usually think about<br />

boxes of socks, crates of veggies, live animals, perhaps.<br />

Flatbed trucks with chains and tarps and funky equipment<br />

that no one knows anything about. Even pieces and parts<br />

that dwarf a common house. Maybe glamorous isn’t a word<br />

that comes to mind. The money is good, absolutely, but<br />

there’s nothing fancy going on.<br />

But when you’re a trucker, the opportunities don’t end<br />

there. Want to do something different? Consider all the cool<br />

industries that require moving loads around the country and<br />

then think about how you might fit in. As a driver, you have a<br />

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Rock and Ro<br />

Truckers keep touring musicians on the road<br />

for the summer concert season<br />

Country music super group Zac Brown Band faces a<br />

particularly grueling stretch of their 20<strong>15</strong> summer tour<br />

during the month of July. They have to be in Denver on<br />

July 3, Salt Lake City, Utah on July 9, Boise, Idaho on July 10, and<br />

all the way over to Quincy, Washington on July 11.<br />

And it isn’t just Zac Brown Band that needs to get the outdoor<br />

music venues in these cities. There’s a crew, equipment, musical<br />

instruments, staging, merchandise trailers … a lot of behind-thescenes<br />

tools that help bring a live-music experience to life.<br />

But how do major musical acts like Shania Twain, Brian Wilson,<br />

Rick Springfield, Chicago, AC/DC and Madonna get from Point A<br />

to Point B so they can entertain the masses?<br />

They rely on truckers.<br />

Transporting the Stars<br />

For years, traveling musical acts specifically have relied on<br />

S.O.S. Transportation, a full service theatrical trucking company<br />

based out of Oregon. For legal reasons, Olson cannot talk<br />

about S.O.S. Transportation’s current clients. But the company<br />

has transported the likes of Van Halen, Rod Stewart, Alice In<br />

Chains, Journey, Lyle Lovett, R.E.M., George Thorogood and ZZ<br />

Top across the country. (None of the artists listed<br />

above are<br />

S.O.S. clients, whose history puts them<br />

in contact prefers to work with rock acts as opposed to country<br />

acts.)<br />

“If you want to put it to its lowest common denominator, we<br />

take little black boxes that hold all of the equipment, and we put<br />

them on the big white box [the trailer] and take them to the next<br />

town, then unload the little black boxes and wait,” said Chris<br />

Olson, president of S.O.S. Transportation. “And if you can point<br />

with your ‘disco’ finger, you can stand back and load a whole<br />

truck while supervising, saying ‘disco’s here and disco’s there’ as<br />

a driver straps and loads.”<br />

Some tours are smaller than others, requiring one or two<br />

trucks. Stewart, when he toured, needed eight trucks, while his<br />

tour mate, Stevie Nicks, had two of her own trucks. Olson also<br />

said his trucks have come a long way over the years, mostly<br />

growing larger so that they can hold more stuff. Olson’s current<br />

trucks can run 75 feet in length because of 53-foot trailers.<br />

Summer, without fail, is Olson’s busiest time because so many<br />

artists hit the road in<br />

support of an album or just<br />

to tour warm<br />

weather venues. During<br />

the winter<br />

months, S.O.S. and similar<br />

transportation companies keep busy with<br />

television programs like<br />

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ll Hauling<br />

By Sean O’ Connell<br />

“Wheel of Fortune” or Jeopardy!” that go on location to do live,<br />

remote broadcasts.<br />

The Show Must Go On<br />

Typically, the way a tour works, every vendor responsible for<br />

a component of the show – from lighting to staging to musical<br />

equipment – meets in the city that is the first stop on the tour.<br />

They coordinate the production through rehearsals. From that<br />

point, the trucks lead the tour from town to town. When each<br />

show ends, the trucks are loaded to make unpacking easier in<br />

the next city.<br />

If complications can arise, it usually has to do with legal<br />

drive times so that productions can make it to the next city<br />

without violating DOT regulations. Olson recalls an instance<br />

where a merchandise truck needed to move from San Diego to<br />

Minneapolis in two days.<br />

“So I flew in another driver and they team dove to<br />

Minneapolis,” he said. “That guy got off in Minneapolis, got a<br />

hotel room, and then flew home the next day.”<br />

Even though it’s an<br />

Olson says entertainment<br />

isn’t glamorous.<br />

integral part of show business,<br />

transportation<br />

“It’s trucking,” he said. “You still have to be smarter than the<br />

truck and trailer that you are operating. You have to be a little<br />

more polite to most people because regardless of who you run<br />

into and what their issue is, you are going to have to address it.<br />

You are paid salary, not paid mileage. But you get paid every day<br />

form the time that you leave home until the time you get back.<br />

And the truck has to look good, so if you aren’t working on your<br />

truck, you are polishing it.”<br />

They also<br />

S.O.S. may<br />

only hire<br />

“You<br />

four or five<br />

guys leaving<br />

December. I<br />

in the late<br />

home anywhere<br />

the most.” Because<br />

trucking, the show<br />

don’t recruit a lot of drivers. Olson says<br />

receive 500 applications, but they may<br />

one guy out of that pool.<br />

are gone a lot. You can be gone<br />

months in a row,” he said. “I’ve got<br />

in July who won’t get home until<br />

remember doing Van Halen tours<br />

‘70s and early ‘80s where I was<br />

from six to 10 days a year, at<br />

in entertainment, just as in<br />

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Here are dates for a few major acts out on tour this summer:<br />

ZAC BROWN BAND<br />

Fri 05/01/<strong>15</strong><br />

Thu 05/07/<strong>15</strong><br />

Fri 05/08/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sat 05/09/<strong>15</strong><br />

Thu 05/21/<strong>15</strong><br />

Fri 05/22/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sat 05/23/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sun 05/24/<strong>15</strong><br />

Thu 06/<strong>04</strong>/<strong>15</strong><br />

Fri 06/05/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sat 06/06/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sun 06/07/<strong>15</strong><br />

SHANIA TWAIN<br />

Fri 06/05/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sun 06/07/<strong>15</strong><br />

Tue06/09/<strong>15</strong><br />

Thu 06/11/<strong>15</strong><br />

Fri 06/12/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sun 06/14/<strong>15</strong><br />

Mon 06/<strong>15</strong>/<strong>15</strong><br />

Fri 06/19/<strong>15</strong><br />

Sat 06/20/<strong>15</strong><br />

Nashville, TN |Bridgestone Arena<br />

Raleigh, NC |Walnut Creek Amphitheater<br />

Alpharetta, GA |Verizon Wireless Amph. At<br />

Encore Park<br />

Alpharetta, GA |Verizon Wireless Amph. At<br />

Encore Park<br />

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Don’t let spring get sprung by maDness of<br />

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By Phylis Dills<br />

Public Affairs Specialist for the Dallas Region of the Social Security Administration<br />

Since 1939, March has meant one thing in the world of<br />

sports: March Madness. In this tournament, 68 college<br />

basketball teams compete through the month until only the<br />

final four teams remain. Coaches gather their teams to drive<br />

home the gravity of the moment, reminding them that they’ve<br />

worked hard and that how they respond to the pressure<br />

directly determines the outcome.<br />

When it comes to retirement, you can secure your own<br />

winning outcome by teaming up with Social Security and<br />

taking advantage of services offered online. Start by opening<br />

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myaccount.<br />

On March 6, Americans recognize Middle Name Pride Day.<br />

At the Social Security Administration, our middle name is<br />

“Security,” and every day, we do everything we can to live<br />

up to that name. As part of protecting our vital services, we<br />

safeguard against all forms of Social Security fraud.<br />

Social Security has zero-tolerance for fraud and those who<br />

try to cheat the system. While we can’t prevent all fraud<br />

schemes any more than the best police force can stop all crime,<br />

we work aggressively with our Office of the Inspector General<br />

to investigate and prosecute people who commit fraud.<br />

What can you do with a my Social Security account? Allow<br />

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• Use your account to view your Social Security Statement<br />

and verify your earnings history each year. Your future benefits<br />

are based on your recorded earnings.<br />

• Stay focused on your financial future by getting estimates<br />

of your retirement, disability, and survivor benefits, if you are<br />

still working.<br />

• Keep up the full-court press by managing your benefits, if<br />

you already receive them.<br />

• Get immediate proof of your current Social Security<br />

benefits or a replacement SSA-1099 or SSA-1<strong>04</strong>2S for tax<br />

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While everyone focuses on college basketball, create your<br />

own March Madness with Social Security. You can open your<br />

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breaks. Don’t wait until crunch time. Your moment is now. Take<br />

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estimates. Staying ahead of the game is key to having a winning<br />

future in retirement. Social Security is a dependable team<br />

player, assisting you to your retirement championship, and my<br />

Social Security is the Most Valuable Player on the court. Check<br />

out your final four at www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount.<br />

Acting Commissioner Carolyn Colvin’s message to those<br />

who would defraud Social Security is clear: “We will find you;<br />

we will prosecute you; we will seek the maximum punishment<br />

allowable under the law; and we will fight to restore to the<br />

American public the money you’ve stolen.” We provide<br />

benefits to one-fifth of the American population, including<br />

elderly retirees, people with severe illnesses, and widows and<br />

children after the death of a wage earner. Our beneficiaries<br />

also include wounded warriors and the chronically ill, all<br />

of whom tend to be the most vulnerable of our population.<br />

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Our Office of the Inspector General works in concert with<br />

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accurately predict where fraud may occur. By monitoring cases<br />

closely, we identify fraud sooner rather than later—and often<br />

we prevent it before it happens. We also have stiff penalties<br />

that discourage people from committing fraud, including hefty<br />

fines, suspension of benefits, and even jail time for the most<br />

severe offenses.<br />

We take our middle name seriously and so should you. If<br />

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call the Social Security Fraud Hotline at 1-800-269-0271<br />

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Spring training for major league baseball teams begins<br />

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FIRST BASE<br />

If you changed your name due to marriage or divorce, or<br />

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avoid a “mismatch” with our records (which could delay your<br />

tax return) and improper recording of your earnings. To learn<br />

more about your Social Security number and changing your<br />

name, go to www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.<br />

SECOND BASE<br />

You will need Social Security numbers for your<br />

children if you want to claim them as dependents<br />

on your tax return. In most cases, parents request<br />

a Social Security number for their newborn child at<br />

the hospital when applying for a birth certificate. If you<br />

didn’t apply for a number for your child then, you can apply<br />

at your local Social Security office or by mail. Claiming your<br />

dependents will maximize your tax refund or minimize any<br />

amount you owe. To learn more, read our online publication,<br />

Social Security Numbers For Children, available at www.<br />

socialsecurity.gov/pubs.<br />

THIRD BASE (Bases loaded)<br />

If you receive Social Security benefits, you need to pay<br />

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CLEANUP HITTER:<br />

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Former Security Guard-Turned Trucker<br />

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Driver Glenn Hart started<br />

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a surprising career change since<br />

both his father and uncle are<br />

truck drivers.<br />

There’s a wreck that<br />

happened in 2009 near<br />

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truck driver Glenn Hart’s mind.<br />

He was only 18 at the time<br />

and driving his mother’s car. A<br />

woman trucker was in front of him and before he knew anything<br />

had happened he saw her start “backing off,” the gas pedal, Hart<br />

remembers.<br />

When he pulled up beside her he looked up and saw her<br />

face. Clearly. Then up ahead he saw the four-wheeler she had<br />

been avoiding. A 17-year-old girl talking on a cell phone flipped<br />

her car five times. Hart went to the scene of the wreck to see if<br />

he could help and miraculously the teen was alive.<br />

Thanks to the woman trucker, a larger wreck was averted<br />

because she could see the girl was in trouble and avoided the<br />

wreck before it even happened.<br />

After getting his CDL, Hart entered American Truck Training in<br />

Oklahoma City and saw the lady truck driver again. Face to face.<br />

She was his trainer. “Before she started talking I said, ‘I know<br />

you,’” Hart said. When he recalled the wreck and described how<br />

he had looked up at his now trainer, recognition dawned on her.<br />

“She was shocked,” said Hart, who now runs a dedicated route<br />

for Werner.<br />

Although only 23 and a trainer, himself, Hart is no stranger to<br />

trucking. His dad drives a truck, a job he’s held for many years<br />

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happened in 2009 that<br />

sticks in Hart’s mind.<br />

and his uncle also has been a career truck driver.<br />

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career in security, not trucking. He loved the company he was<br />

with and last year was in the process of getting his license to<br />

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FEATURE<br />

carry a firearm when the firm lost its “armed bonding,” meaning<br />

none of its employees could carry a firearm.<br />

Suddenly, he lost his enthusiasm for the security business.<br />

“Find out what you’re going to do,” Hart’s dad told him. “You<br />

can always do truck driving.”<br />

“I love driving in general,” Hart thought. “Why not make a<br />

living out of it?”<br />

Several months later he was on the road.<br />

“I talk to everyone I see,” said Hart. “I like to get other drivers’<br />

input on how things should be done. I’ve got a trainee, now<br />

[Dylan Lawrence], and I encourage him to seek out other CDL<br />

holders and get their thoughts. If I have a question I ask an old<br />

timer; experience comes with age.” Because he’s young, Hart<br />

thought he might have trouble with older trainees but found<br />

that not to be the case.<br />

Before Lawrence, who’s 22, Hart had a 51-year-old trainee,<br />

a man who was formerly a certified computer technician. “I<br />

thought he might not like being trained by a young squirt still<br />

wet behind the ears but we got along very well. I talked him into<br />

staying in trucking. He missed his family but I put in a request<br />

with his manager” for him to get more home time,<br />

Hart said, “Of course more home time is what most truckers<br />

could use more of.”<br />

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Hart’s family members are 21-year-old Hunter Tucker, and<br />

her 5-year-old son, Gabriel. “She loves that I’m able to make<br />

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talk. After being away from family the next hardest thing is<br />

communication. There are things she needs to tell me while I’m<br />

on the road but when I’m driving I don’t talk, headset or not.”<br />

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right mentality and a willingness to do it [be away from home].”<br />

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truck driver” to do the job, either.<br />

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but she’s one of the best drivers I know.”<br />

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trucker in the family.<br />

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