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Carol Nixon has always let her conscience
be her guide in her career and in her life.
Klint Lowry
T
he great American hero Davy Crockett was said to have
lived by the credo, “Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
At first blush Carol Nixon bears little resemblance to the
King of the Wild Frontier — no coonskin cap, no “Old Betsy” at
her side. Instead of being “born on a mountaintop in Tennessee,”
she entered the world in the small town of Colville in northeast
Washington, then lived on the nearby Colville Indian Reservation
until her family moved to the western side of the state when she
was 5.
But in her own way, Nixon shares Crockett’s philosophy to
living. She trusts her sense of what’s right and of what’s right for
her. That’s why she got into trucking in the first place and it is
how 27 years and 2.5 million miles later she came to be chosen
as a TravelCenters of America/Petro Citizen Driver Award winner.
Nixon, 48, grew up in a family of truck drivers. Her maternal
grandfather owned a sawmill where they cut railroad ties. Her
father, Thomas Wolder, would run them down the mountain. A
couple of her uncles also had their own logging trucks, as did a
cousin — a female cousin — she pointed out.
Her love of trucking developed riding along with her father and
uncles.
When Nixon was still in her teens, she had a daughter, Cherisa
Costello. Needing to make a living, Nixon wound up in Alaska at
one point, working a job processing crab. Eventually, she came
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