The Mission Statement

This blog is being created to capture the magic that causes me to love this business so much. I will do the best I can to recapture past events that shaped my life, gave me laughs, made me cry. 

Much of this will involve a gentleman named Jimmy Deyoung. One of my mentors in my early career. 

Jimmy and I traveled the east coast from Florida to Maine most of the time in a 24 foot box truck. Listening to our Sony Walkmans in absolute silence. Every once in a while, you could legally break the code of silence to inform the other guy of a radio station that you were listening to that had a good song on it. 

The the thing was, that just before we left to go on this tour, Jimmy broke up with this really hot chick. So he was in no mood to be stuck in a truck with little 20 year old Steve for the next 8 weeks. He immediately made a few rules. Rule Number 1 No love songs.... Classic Rock only!

8 weeks of listening to Steppenwolf certainly had something to do with my love for the industry... or at least it shaped how I viewed it.

Rule Number 2 You can fart in the truck, but you have to roll your window down.

Rule Number 3 A clean truck is a happy truck. 

Everytime we would stop at a rest stop Jimmy would throw everything out that wasn't attached to the cab. If we stopped at 9:00 am then you better have eaten your lunch, because if it was sitting on the bench and you left to go to the bathroom... it was gone.

Rule Number 4 You can't pick up chicks while you are driving a big yellow truck. 

I would see a hot chick in a car down below us and start trying to flirt with her... Jimmy would say... Steve.. you can't pick up chicks in a yellow truck.. it just doesn't work.

those are the rules I remember right now.. there were plenty of unspoken ones but this is 20 years ago, so I will be hard pressed to remember them I am sure. 

I hope you enjoy this attempt to capture what I consider to be one of the most fun times in my life.