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With my truck backed into the dock at a small factory outside Pewaukee, WI, I look over the nearby farmland.	Picking up bags of graphite in Asbury, NJ. Everything in the plant, including men, was coated with black dust.	At a construction site for a high-rise apt. complex, I waited to unload my cargo of new vinyl windows.

Most of my "professional" truck driving experience (that means driving a tractor-trailer rather than a step van or delivery van or furniture van or straight truck) involved trips like those shown above - picking up cargo at one factory or warehouse and delivering it to another factory or warehouse.  There was a two-year stretch, however, that was quite different.  I drove for a company called Morgan Drive-Away  which transported a variety of different types of vehicles from factories to dealers or from seller to buyer all around the country.  Some drivers worked in teams, driving multiple vehicles from a factory to various dealers, while another person drove a van to pick up the drivers after delivery and return them to the starting point.  Other drivers used cabs, buses or planes to return home after a delivery.  I, like many others, towed my own car behind the vehicle I was delivering, then used the car to drive to the next pick-up point.  All of these methods had their pros and cons, but I preferred the independence of having my own car with me.  As long as I kept my eye on my own personal finances and did a little money management along the way, that is, it was worth it. The following photographs will show some of the many different types of vehicles I delivered, throughout the country.

Fueling Southwind Motor-home before heading south. Paying for fuel was a driver's expense.	This Freightliner tractor was to be delivered from Alabama to a truck/auto auction in South Carolina.	I carried a few hundred pounds of hitching parts and hardware in my trunk. Trucks were tough to hitch to.
An Airstream Motor Home which I delivered to Midway, FL. It was plush inside.	This commercial-type bus came from a Blue Bird factory in central Georgia.	This Blue Bird bus broke down en route and had to be towed the rest of the way to Savannah, GA.
I drove this school bus, towing my car behind, to a bus company in New Jersey, I believe.	I picked up cube vans like this from Fort Valley, GA, Buffalo, NY, and Morgantown, PA.	Several times, I delivered Budget trucks from an office that had too many to an office that needed one.
I delivered this to a residential area where a man had a work-from-home business.	I picked this junior-sized motor home up at the Winnebago factory in Clear Lake, Iowa.	I delivered a few of these Salvation Army trucks.  I think two went to Baltimore, MD.

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