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DRIVER's STORY * USA - Still trucking after all these years
New Market man helped break racial barriers for truck driversNew Market,MD,USA -Frederick News Post (subscription -Frederick,MD), by Nancy Hernandez -June 01, 2007: -- Barred from riding a school bus, Lester Dorsey got a job driving a truck when he was 16. More than 66 years later, at nearly age 82, he’s still behind the wheel. “I’ve done it all my life so I have to like it,” Dorsey said... He was reared on New London Road outside New Market and still lives there. After completing seventh grade, he started looking for a job because he didn’t have a way to get to school... At that time, Frederick County Public Schools didn’t bus black students to high school, he said. His parents didn’t own a car and couldn’t afford to pay someone to take him. Walking the 15 miles to Frederick High School would have taken hours, Dorsey said. He got a job working on the railroad by lying about his age... “I said I was 18, but I was really only 15,” he said... No one questioned him, because at 5 feet 9 inches and 170 pounds, he looked older. When his supervisors found out his actual age, they fired him, Dorsey said. He worked as a farmhand for several months before landing a job with Hahn Transportation Inc. in 1941... (Photo by Bill Green: Lester Dorsey of New Market has been a trucker for 66 years)
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