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TRUCKERS' STORY * USA - Poodle-toting trucker says diesel runs in her veins
Dallas,TX,USA -KHOU (Houston,TX)/The Dallas Morning News, by JENNIFER LaFLEUR -Dec 11, 2006: -- On a sunny day, Jan Steward, a second-generation trucker known as Pistol, steers her 1998 burgundy Freightliner Century through Columbus, Ohio. She has 21 tons of salt in her trailer, two poodles in her cab and a love of hauling cross-country loads... "When I go to the doctor to get a blood test," she says, "I tell him I have Pepsi and diesel fuel running in my veins."... She makes her living in a highly competitive and often troubled industry. The job can be hard, the pressures intense and the conditions poor. But Pistol persists... On a five-day trip through eight states last spring, she explained and complained about the challenges and hazards of trucking – truckers who take risks, unsafe car drivers, high operating costs and bad equipment... With her driver's logbook and a Bible on her dashboard, Pistol points her truck south on Interstate 71 toward Cincinnati... The 50-year-old divorced mother of four and grandmother of eight puffs Doral cigarettes between sips of Pepsi. Wavy blond hair hides her Bluetooth earpiece. She wears jeans and a gray St. Louis Rams sweatshirt... (Photo by RON BASELICE/DMN - Jan "Pistol" Steward took a cigarette break with her poodles Pride (left) and Candy in Waxahachie earlier this year)
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