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JOB RESOURCES 

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you apply. 

BEHIND THE WHEEL 

From the roadways 

to the airwaves 

Tom Kyrk does double duty 

as professional truck driver, 

radio personality 

34 

Affton 6 

Berger Moving & Storage 29 

Beyond Distribution 25 

Boyle Transportation 7 

Dillon Transportation 27 

GoTruckers.com 14 

J&M Tank Lines 32 

Keen 9 

KL Harring Transportation 5 

LOGiX 18 

Marten Transport 31 

Nebraska Atlantic Transportation 33 

Oakley Trucking Inc. 19 

WHAT’S INSIDE 

22 

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FEATURED BUSINESSES 

ALONG FOR THE RIDE 

18 wheels, 4 legs 

Lack of knowledge about 

service animals inspires 

trucking company 

RIG OF THE MONTH 

Sweet ride 

Darren “Pac-Man” Stafford 

shows off his fully customized 

2001 Peterbilt 379 

OWNING THE WHEEL 

Is it a necessary expense? 

Trailer ownership brings independence 

but adds cost and responsibility 

PI&I Motor Express 20-21 

Progressive Commercial 40 

Red Eye Radio 23 

Reliable Carriers Inc. 15 

Schuster 26 

Star Freight 12-13 

TForce Freight 2-3 

TMC Transportation 11 

Tran Stewart 30 

U.S. Xpress 37 

Variant 35 

Western Express 38-39 

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Zachariah Fry and Ghost 

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resources 

guess — this is info you should know. If a violation 

falls within the period requested on the application, 

be sure to list it. 

The “DAC Report” is used by many carriers 

to obtain drivers’ employment history. There 

are other services that provide similar information, 

but the DAC Employment History issued 

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that order this report usually also report 

your information once you leave the company. 

The report can list accidents or incidents that 

occurred while a company vehicle was in your 

possession, even if they were not reported to the 

police. Some carriers report accidents, and some 

report every instance where money was spent, 

such as a broken mirror or needing a tow truck 

to get unstuck. 

In this report, carriers can report if your performance 

was satisfactory — or not — without 

leaving details. They can also report the circumstances 

of your leaving the carrier, noting such 

things as “truck left in unauthorized location” if 

you didn’t return their truck to a specified terminal, 

or “fraudulent use of funds” if you advanced 

cash on your fuel card before quitting. 

Some carriers are meticulous about what goes 

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the task to a disgruntled safety clerk who may 

have an ax to grind. 

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anything in your report or to have your rebuttal 

statement included with the information provided. 

Rebut with facts, however, not emotional 

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for all new hires. Carriers, MROs and 

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Before January 2020, carriers usually had to 

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PHOTO BY JOHN WORTHEN 

PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM KYRK 

Tom Kyrk, who drives for a company that 

provides what he describes as “white glove 

service,” enjoyed a bit of time of recently on 

a brief layover in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 

addition to working as a truck driver, Kyrk 

is also a professional radio host on The 

Transportation Network online radio station. He 

and Tom Kelley, one of the network’s founders, 

appear on air together in the above photo. 

Kyrk told Kelley he could use his headset and lead shows 

while driving his truck — and being fed information from the 

studio through the headset. 

“As far as I know, we are the only radio show to ever do 

(broadcasting) that way, but it worked,” Kyrk said. “I was 

just driving down the road and talking about topics that were 

of interest to fellow truckers.” 

Kyrk still hosts shows that way, but he prefers to be stopped 

so he can open his laptop and have a better view of the news 

and events happening daily. 

Kyrk said the goal of TNC is to “build something for drivers 

that is unique to them. Drivers miss the old days of radio. You 

get so much information, but also a variety show of sorts. 

It’s music, it’s comedy, it’s news. Sometimes it works, and 

sometimes it doesn’t. But I feel like, overall, it’s a really good 

program.” 

Kyrk said it’s important to have a sense of humor while on 

air … and in life. And he and Kelley, along with others who 

are regulars on the network, are always joking around. 

“Most of what I do on the radio is … they give me a topic, 

and I give them my opinion,” Kyrk said. “If I see something 

going on on the road, I call in and give them the information. 

Or it could be that I see something … I see smoke, and I call 

in to them and ask them to investigate it. It could be nothing, 

or it could be a major accident that drivers need to know 

about.” 

As for trucking, Kyrk said he describes himself as a driver 

who “delivers extreme white-glove service” to his clients. He 

can’t go into further details due to security reasons related to 

his carrier. 

Growing up in upper New York State, Kyrk said he remembers 

being fascinated by the snowplow trucks and farm equipment. 

He said that early interest likely planted the seed for his love 

of trucking. He also credits trucking for making his life better. 

“Most of the education I have gotten has come from the 

real world and school of hard knocks (on the road), not 

college,” Kyrk said. “I think college is great for people, 

but I also think that you should learn some kind of a trade. 

Because then you have something you can use later in life if 

you have to fall back on it. Also, you can do simple repairs 

around the house. I am a big advocate for that.” 

Kyrk has been on the road for 15 years and has traveled 

nearly 2 million miles. He started out with Stevens Transport 

after quitting the retail business and enrolling in a trucking 

school. Now, at 46, he said he knows he won’t be able to 

drive a truck forever, no matter how much he loves the 

industry. 

“I know there are drivers my age who are having major 

health issues,” Kyrk said. “I’m realistic that trucking is rough, 

and your body wears out. Diesel is a bit of an addiction. If 

you wanna get into trucking, make sure you’re out there for 

at least five years. At that point, you probably won’t want to 

leave. Once you get it into your blood it’s very, very, very 

hard to get rid of.” 

Though he now lives in the Pittsburgh area, Kyrk said he 

considers his truck to be his “home.” 

And he doesn’t want to imagine it any other way. 

“I try to be the best person and driver I can be,” he said. 

“People say the brotherhood of trucking is gone, but I think 

it’s still there. It’s had to change with the times, but the days 

of helping a fellow trucker on the side of the road are not 

over. I’ve benefitted from that, and I have been the helper. 

You just do the best you can do. When you do the right things 

for the right reasons, you will feel good about it.” 

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along for 

the ride 

road is the same thing that’s caused him the most headaches from 

others in his trucking career, from employers to truck-stop personnel 

to storekeepers while out on the road. 

“It’s been stressful over the years,” Fry said. “I remember one 

time we were in Kroger, and we were in an aisle. Ghost, when he’s 

working, he doesn’t bark at anybody. He’s an exceptionally (well) 

trained dog. We were in an aisle, and I was bent over picking up 

some shaving cream and the manager comes up behind us aggressively, 

‘You can’t have that dog in here!’ 

“I was like, ‘He’s a service dog.’ ‘If he’s a service dog, I need 

to see some papers right now!’ the guy said,” Fry recalled. “I was 

like, ‘That’s not how it works. I don’t need to show you anything, 

actually.’ He’s like, ‘Then you get the hell out of my store!’ And that 

same thing has happened a million times.” 

The Americans with Disabilities Act was supposed to smooth 

things for people who rely on service animals to function, but Fry 

said in reality, the law is widely misunderstood — or just disregarded 

altogether. 

“With the ADA, basically if you have a service dog you don’t 

have to have a vest on it that says ‘Service Dog’” Fry said. “The 

requirements are that your dog is trained and he’s not bothering 

anybody. He can’t be creating a disturbance, and if he is, people 

can ask you to leave. If you go to a business, they’re allowed to ask 

you, ‘Is he a service dog?’ Then you can answer them, and they can 

ask you, ‘What is he trained to do so that we may accommodate?’” 

When asked why he sometimes chooses not to suit Ghost with a 

vest, on the off-chance that it might head off some of the confrontations, 

Fry said it comes down to a matter of privacy. 

“I do have a medical condition, and I’ll tell you what. The worst 

part of having a service dog is that everybody asks what you’re 

suffering from that qualifies you to have a service dog,” he said. “I 

shouldn’t be required to have a big sign that says, ‘I’ve got something 

wrong with me. Here’s my service dog.’ 

“People who have service animals, they don’t want confrontation,” 

he shared. “They don’t have a service animal because they 

want to go fight everybody about their dang dog. You know what I 

mean? That’s what always blew my mind so much about it. I have 

him with me to help keep me calm and for my benefit. He’s the 

sweetest dog ever, and everywhere we would go it would just cause 

a big scene, like he’s some troublemaker. It’s just crazy.” 

Fry said the presence of Ghost has caused him to cycle through 

several trucking companies who refused to view the 6-year-old German 

shepherd as anything but a pet. So earlier in mid-2020, he took 

the extraordinary step of forming his own company, Ghost Hauling. 

“We’ve been doing real good. I have a handful of customers, great 

people. It’s the best experience of my life,” Fry said. “I work on the 

smaller side of things, you know, working with smaller companies 

and smaller shippers. I haul fertilizer most of the time. I deliver to 

farmers and nurseries and stuff like that.” 

One interesting aspect of the venture is that now that Ghost is 

pulling double duty as company mascot — with his profile painted 

on the side of the truck and everything — the reception the pair 

receives is often much different than when Ghost was simply doing 

his job as a service animal. 

“Ghost is with me everywhere I go. Everybody loves him,” Fry 

said. “They love seeing him on the truck and seeing him in the 

truck.” 


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RIG of the 

month 

INTERVIEW BY THE TRUCKER JOBS MAGAZINE STAFF 

PHOTOS COURTESY OF DARREN STAFFORD 

The January Rig of the Month is a fully customized ride that looks sweet and delivers 

tasty treats all around the East Coast. This 2001 Peterbilt 379 was purchased by 

Darren “Pac-Man” Stafford in 2016. Since then, he’s added almost everything new. 

He started off by changing the bunker to blind mount with 35.75 dual revolution 

lights. He’s also put on a big hood conversion to take the slope out of the hood, 

and a full 7-inch Lincoln exhaust. On the inside, Stafford made everything black 

and red to match his nickname, Pac-Man. This includes the dash panels, steering 

wheel, shift knob and custom speaker covers. He also added subwoofers and a 

powerful speaker system. The truck is powered by a crate 6NZ Caterpillar engine 

that produces 750 horsepower and is paired with a 13-speed Eaton transmission. 

Stafford primarily hauls liquid sugar though contract, and occasionally watermelons 

and potatoes between Maryland and North Carolina. He says he grew up around 

trucking but only got his CDL about five years ago. 


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The dual lines to sliding tandems are often a problem. If 

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unloading. 

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