Monday March 28, 2011

 

 

Interview With a Lady Involved in Trucking

Tuesday, March 22

 

Early last week Inge (Highway News Editor) and I traveled to the home of Nancy Sensenig to do an interview for the May issue of the Highway News & Good News. We like to feature a woman who is involved in the world of trucking for the month of Mother’s Day.

 

 

She has a lot of fun memories of trucking when she was young.

 

 

When Inge asked a question that she could not answer, she asked her husband, Harry, to join the interview. Harry and Nancy are in their seventies.

 

 

Nancy and her first husband Dale Graham founded their business when they were young. She began driving truck to help get their business going – so they wouldn’t have to hire a driver.

 

 

They have about twenty trucks and deliver a variety of products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Mack is the pride and joy of Nancy’s son who oversees the business.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy no longer drives truck, but knows almost everything about her business.

 

 

 

 

 

Harry held one of their dogs while Inge finished the interview.

 

 

A granddaughter does any office work that requires a computer.

 

 

Nancy spends many hours at her office desk – paying bills and dispatching drivers.

 

 

In her early days of trucking she and her husband hauled milk, and picked it up in milk cans.

 

 

This one is a bit smaller that the ones she had to pick up. When full of milk, a can weighs about ninety pounds. She isn’t much heavier than that.

Harry and Nancy took us out for lunch following the interview. We had a delightful time visiting with them.

I was purposely vague in giving details, because some of you will be receiving this Highway News in April.

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To read any issue of the Highway News online, go to www.transportforchrist.org and click on Highway News Online (on the left). Then choose the issue. This will be in the May issue. It should be online by April 22.

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