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Story - USA - Founder's son, 86, drives truck for 86-year-old firm
Salt Lake,UH,USA -The Salt Lake Tribune, by Paul Beebe -23 July 2006: -- The truck: A 5-year-old Freightliner rigged with a special 600-horsepower motor, an 18-speed automatic transmission and showing 225,000 miles on the odometer... The driver: Gene England, age 86, blessed with a younger face, eyeglasses that correct his vision to 20-20, and body as trim as his truck, even after seven decades and 4 million miles behind the wheel... Actually, the mileage is just a guess. England is not sure how far he's traveled since obtaining a driver license when he was 14. What is certain is he's by far the oldest long-haul driver at C.R. England Inc., a Salt Lake City trucking giant that runs refrigerated trucks coast to coast and into Mexico... (Photo: Melinda Hom-Williams/ The Salt Lake Tribune -- Gene England's father founded C.R. England, a Salt Lake City-based trucking firm. Gene's still an over-the-road driver and makes cross-country trips with his wife who keeps him company)
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