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along for the ride Baums AWAY! Driving with dogs creates a happy family for this trucking couple BY DWAIN HEBDA / CONTRIBUTING WRITER When it comes to love of the open road, Larry and Angie Baum are in rare company. The Illinois-based couple, who drive for Landstar and have about 3 million miles under their belts, are so in love with driving that they’ve taken the life-altering step of living in their rig with their pups — Gizmo, Bandit and Nova. “Used to be, we’d be out for two or three months, go home for a week; out two or three months, go home for a week,” Larry said. “But now, we have the Volvo 180 super sleeper that has all the amenities — toilet, shower, stove, sink, a big refrigerator. So, we are selling our house and living on the road.” For Angie, it’s all part of the adventure. “I’ve done so many firsts with him since we’ve been driving,” she said. “To see all the landscapes and wake up every day to a new city is so cool. We just love it!” These niceties aside, there’s an awful lot in Larry and Angie’s backstory that suggests the two never would have wound up together, much less live the life of a driving team. Larry spent his youth catching waves in Southern California. The loss of his first wife so upended his world that he went into a downward spiral that eventually cost him his job, home and a relationship with his daughter. In time, he finally started to come around, but he had no idea what the future held. “I was on unemployment,” he recalled. “Went to one of PHOTOS COURTESY OF LARRY AND ANGIE BAUM For Illinois-based team drivers Larry and Angie Baum, life on the road is three times better with their canine companions, Gizmo, Bandit and Nova. The couple, who drive for Landstar, say they now live on the road full-time. 30 THE TRUCKER JOBS MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2022 WWW.THETRUCKERJOBS.COM 30 THE TRUCKER JOBS MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2022 WWW.THETRUCKERJOBS.COM
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