.....so after I got out of High School in Hot Springs I was immediately enrolled into the D.R. Miller School of Truck Driving, awarded with a Drivers License from Selma, Alabama, handed a bull hook, given a smart looking hat and coat.......and my life in the elephant business began!
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
Bill Woodcock #10
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GOOD STUFF, Buckles!
We have all been blessed because of this!
Thanks for sharing these.
Bob
And the Glamorous, show business phase of your career begins!
Ah, but even more fame came as a "blogmeister!"
Only sad part of this new found
fame is it came with carbunkles
Hope you are able to sit again
Perhaps a different cushion
Who was it that said,"Fame can be a pain in the butt"?
I learned to drive a truck in the same school. I agreed to drive the cookhouse, and Gus, the mechanic was to show me how. He jumped in the drivers seat, stomped on the clutch and moved the stick shift "One-Two-Three-Four-Five- High-Low. See ya on the lot!" and he was out the door.
I will always be grateful for my
38 minute semi driving lesson
from Walt "Sputnik" Pamphilon
the electrician for Reithoffer's
1st unit when I was an assistant
in 59 & I was 16 with a Florida
Junior License that no values
I accompanied him to Dallas PA
Reithoffer's then WQ to pick up
2 semi trailers & another horse
I drove his Cornbinder CO200 &
he drove a big Diamond T back
We both were pulling recently
acquired moving van trailers &
we had dummy hoses attached as
they had old vacuum brakes & we
had air connections (real fun
on the mountain back roads)
A great way to learn to drive
Many years later my 2 semis had
Alabama tags courtesy of Judge
Leland Enzor of Andalusia by
the help from Johnny Canole
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