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Sep 5, 2007

TRUCKER'S STORY * Canada - A million miles one at a time

Cliff Brager is honoured by the American Truck Historical Society for his lifetime contribution to the industry

Alberta, Canada -Camrose Canadian, by Elaine Pennington -September 03, 2007: -- You name it, Cliff Brager has probably seen it at some point during his lifetime... Brager turned 97 on Aug. 17 and one week earlier he received an early birthday present from the American Truck Historical Society to commemorate his extensive involvement in the trucking industry in Alberta... It started way back in 1929 when at the age of 19 he decided to purchase a vehicle that had been repossessed. “I worked in the Ford garage with Hugh McFee. I signed the purchase agreement and a friend told me they needed trucks to help lay gravel at Bentley. I gravelled all that winter at Bentley, then Sylvan Lake and Pigeon Lake,” Brager recalled... The first truck was a ton and a half and carried two cubic yards of gravel, “today’s trucks haul about 20 yards”... Looking back, his achievements and contributions to Alberta are numerous, but he remains humble... “I’ve seen so many changes in my lifetime, transportation, communications, technology. The lesson I’ve learned it how little you do alone and how much you do with the help of others”... (Photo: Members of the Camrose Historical Society, January 22, 1980 - Mr Cliff Brager -standing up, to the center of the central row-)

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