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Show Page The Daily Utah Chronicle. Thursday. December 7, 1978 need to De a she passed. chuckled Suzanne. imjortnat thing Sheyou handed mm an reniesentative. "I don't know why." said Donna. envelope with the directions to his house Suzanne graduated from the l'niersity of scribbled on the back dncctions which Minnesota with a degree in English. She was Dave had given her the night before. "This is going to teach and then decided the 8 a.m. to your free main la folder with directions to 5 p.m. toutine ua not for her. house in rase you get lost when drunk vour "About three years ago a guy offered me a truck-driinsome night." she finished. job with his firm so I went to two truck drivers started talking ihe school," Suzanne said. "My mom was which they had gotten into situations about surprised when I told her I was going bat k to Donna said. "You know, and road the on school. She said, Great! You're going to k slow must people to work in those pic they No, I'm going graduate school, and I said. stations." f " jxjit-oentry school.' to "We pulled into one in Kansas and the Donna said the separation from home and guv asked us if our log books (records of time husband really wasn't that bad. The average spent driving) were up to date." run, for the West Oast driver, takes from "We said in unison, 'LOGS!' What logs? five to six days. After the run Donna said she We haul boats.' " Donna laughed. has two days off before starting another trip. "It was his first day on the job and we The company is rapidly growing and wanted to give him a hard time," Suzanne taking more orders for boats. The moie took it well and didn't give us a said. "He boats ordered, the more Donna and Suzanne in ieturn." time hard can work. women Both get along well and figure the "My husband's boss called me one day and the time company would split up their only asked if I could give them a hand for a little be to have them train new would duet while," Donna said. "Six months later I'm said the company is growing drivers. They still driving." drivers are needed more that fast so Both women feel that I "tail is similar to desperately. Texas in the roadside courtesies displayed, "We oniy had one truck a year or so ago, but they liked the roads in I'tah much but now we have four and expect to add mote espec iallv more than those on the Suzanne said. "The idea of building moie." Fast (ixist. bass boat and saving a couple of own vour "In Texas they think a roadside stop is starting to appeal to dollars thousand should be nothing mote than a light with a I even own one but I'm going many jxople. roadmap," Donna said. T hey think no one kit to tiade it in on a sailboat-buildinhas to go to the bathroom. It must be 200 soon." miles or so between stops." In their six months of hauling boats "I'tah gives you no warning on hills." Suzanne and Donna only had one boat Donna said. Twenty-tw- o Women truckers: It's fun1 by JIM SMEDLEV Chronicle staff 7 It's a.m. on a cold November morning. Four people are anxiously awaiting the arrival of a semitruck carrying a new Glassline bass boat. But the four Salt Lakers have been waiting since 6 a.m. for the truck to roll up. The conversation over steaming coffee and sweet and from St. Paul. "We're late because we dune right through Salt I.ake City going west on Highway 80," Suzanne said. "We were going for a while and realized that nothing was out there." "So we pulled over and got some sleep. When we woke up we couldn't remember what direction we had to go." Donna laughed. "The first sign we saw after driving a ways said, Reno 80 miles. So we turned around and headed on back." Both women drove cattle trucks before hauling boats. They both said they liked the job because of the money and freedom, and admitted it was just plain fun. "With me the job is also an ego trip. A guy will do a double-tak- e when he sees us wheeling down the road. Sometimes we'll hMir guys on the CB say, 'Hey did you sec to speculation on the whereabouts of the truck. "I hope they're not lost," said Dianne. "I gave them great directions to the house," Dave replied. "Maybe that's why they are lost," Tom laughed. "They probably sold it to someone else," Paul chimed in. The group's early morning, humor was cut short when Dave veiled "Hold it!" The quiet of the southeast neighborhood was disturbed by the deep rumbling of a motor which could only have been a diesel. Dave sprang to the door and sure enough, a 1978 International bearing seven boats and two women, crawled down the street. Two women! A blonde and a sandy-haire- d brunette the from and cab down said, "Where jumped do you want it?" The boat weighed only 600 pounds, and after they unloaded the accessories from the middle and separated the deck from the hull, its removal from the semi was easy. After the work was done, coffee again became the order as the papers were being rolls ' turns still-aslee- p g -- truck-drivin- those twochicksdrivingthatrig?' " Suzanne said. "Hell, everybody in the truck stops knows you and if they don't, word gets around quickly." Suzanne said the only resentment she meets up with on the road is from the with 30 or more years of trucking behind them, and the wives of old-time- husband-and-wife-truck- teams. She said the old-timer- rs er s hate longhairs, women and rookie drivers, not necessarily in that order. "If looks could kill we'd be dead," g Suzanne said. "Tell them about the one we saw driving on the way into Salt Lake," Donna said. "This one guy's wife was driving," said Suzanne. 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"He knew when he ordered it that he didn't want it," Suzanne said. "All to do was to be a sales representative lor Glassline. The women finished their coffee and were anxious to get bac k on the road. They still had five boats on their trailer. A stop in Angeles would take c are of four of them. The fifth would be dropped in Oregon and then they would head back to Minnesota to do it all over again. "Well Mr. Horney (Dave's last name), you are now onlv the third sales representative of the Glassline company in all of the United States," Suzanne said as she headed for the d(Kir. "Sell some boats because we wouldn't mind coming back here. I like driving on these big, wide streets." "That decline there's a sign saying. Hill. Trucks use low gear." It would be more helpful if they put the sign on top of the hill where it should be." Donna and Suzanne said that they have had a couple of close rails in their adventures on the road. "It worries us, but brake failure is something vou have to accept and know how to handle," Suzanne said. "One of us will be sleeping in the sleeper and the driver will yell, 'Hey! Guess what? We're going 90 miles an hour!' " "Whoever is in the sleeper will kind of make a joke of it bv saving, 'I'll give you a quaiter if ou don't kill me,' or something like that," Donna said. "We have computet ied brakes and there are some good things and some bad things with them," said Donna. "If I had a choice of fieewheelin' or getting thrown through the truck's window I would jusi as soon stay with the truck," Suzanne added. "Gmpuieiied brakes are U supposed to release when tiiev 14ft lot. Regular brakes lock up." The women were just about done with their coffee uhen Donna said, "Tell him about the power lines you knocked down, Suzanne." "Oh. just got a linle loo close to one guy's gutter and they came down. It was nothing rnajot ." 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