And Not Stopping Anytime Soon
Nearly 9 million miles and counting.
That's how many miles Idella Hansen and Sandi Talbott have between them. The best friends and big rig truckers have
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"There weren't that many women out here driving trucks," Talbott recalls with Hansen,
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Talbott first got into trucking in the 1970s
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Coach Outlet Store Online was still on the road a "rolling nursing home," as Hansen calls her. After his death, Talbott carried on without him.
Hansen,
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"It was important for me to be able
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cheap coach purses I got in it and I took off."
"When I take the truck in, it's, 'Oh, here's a little old woman. We'll make a bundle off
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Age be damned, Talbott
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"Four years ago, I had a heart attack while I
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official coach outlet online go back on the road, I pulled out of my driveway and started through
official coach factory outlet online the gear pattern, it was like I'm back in my element. It is my life.""I'm not interested in retiring," she says. "When
coach factory store online I get in that seat, instead of being slump shouldered, all of a sudden I have sat up straight, pulled my shoulders back, and it's like a rush of hot blood."
But what happens if Talbott's health should fail?
"I'll stuff you in the truck with me," Hansen says, laughing.
"When they pry our cold dead fingers off the wheel that's when we'll retire," Talbott says. "Because when people retire, they die. And we ain't ready for that.".
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