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	Since I was a kid, I've always loved trucks. To satisfy my curiosity and sense of adventure, I held part time driving jobs while pursuing both my musical career as well as while opening our own company, complete fitness design. www.completefitnessdesign.com I still enjoy trucks as much as I did when I was a kid, though these days, I'm content to merely photograph them. Now that my wife and I have opened our own gym as well, the pictures are fewer and fewer due to time constraints. This shot on the left was the final job in my part time career, hauling fuel in Austin, Texas 2003. For those of you interested in seeing my other online collection of pictures, please visit www.andybruchey.com To visit our gym, please click here www.austinfitnesscenter.com.
Delivering gas at Liberty Hill, TX outside of Austin. Dispensing the goods.
It's not too hard to figure out which house is ours.	Mission Petroleum Carriers, Inc. My first gas hauling job in Austin, TX. Nice truck.	My local job in Nashville TN for 2 and a half years until music took us to Austin, TX. Stan and Gene make it a great place to earn a paycheck. Thanks again for everything guys.
My first stint with tankers. A very sloshy ride around Nashville for me in the late 90's.	Sure is smoother than a smooth bore tanker full of sulfuric acid.	A relatively small carrier from St Louis, MO with a hub in Nashville. A nice ride, but you need a strong back for their freight.
My first job in Nashville was with Pemberton Truck Lines. Mostly we went to the CSX railyard or some other intermodal yard and brought containers to the Service Merchandise warehouses.	Just my day cab with a company trailer.	When my A/C quit in the middle of summer, my boss gave me a cabover road truck to run the city. Thanks Larry.
A classic combo I pulled around Nashville to and from the rail yard.	Around 1998 I went to work for a small OTR carrier out of Bangor, ME called AJ Murphy. This was my truck. A 94 International with a 425 cat and a 13 double over.	This was a load of fresh Maine blueberries headed to a Mass processing plant. We had to run them down in the middle of the night because we were too heavy with a reefer trailer.
This is my Dad Stuart Bruchey. He has always been proud of me as a truck driver. Here he is when he accompanied me on a short trip to southern Maine with some barrels of oil.	One day on a trip to Wisconsen, my beloved blue International broke down before I could even get out of Maine. They rescued me with this leased tractor. It was a long trip.	A pre condo fleet Werner Freightliner captured in Orono, Maine in 1994.
Here I am backing into a unlit indoor loading dock in Queens, NY. It's a bit tight as you can see, not to mention the fact that it was a very busy street.	In the mid 90's I took a NYC local driving job with Harco Trucking out of Long Island, NY. We hauled recycled paper everyday throughout all 5 boroughs of NYC as well as metropolitan NJ. Needless to say, we earned our money!	My 1987 mack. It was no beauty and it turned with the same radius as an oceanliner, but with the camelback suspension, it was a tolerable ride on the city streets.
My second long haul stint was with a small carrier based out of St David Maine (way up north, next to Canada) called Ouellette farms. The trucks were all late model freightliners with 60 series detroits and 9 speeds. They owned a potato farm so if we weren't hauling rolls of paper all over the country, we were taking potato's to Plant City, Florida.	This is how they unloaded the potato's in Florida. A simple flush.	Our German Sheperd who provided me great company on those long and lonely trips. The finest trucker to ever tame the asphalt. Nuff said.
This is where it all began for me back in the summer of 1994 in Portland ME.	My first foray into the world of long haul trucking was back in 1996 with a now defunct company called Direct Transit. I was in the northeast regional division based out of Moosic, PA.	This is the 92 freightliner I drove for my 3 month tenure. Shortly after I had parted ways with the company, they were shut down by the government for massive DOT violations and fined into bankrupcy. They were eventually purchased by Swift.
My first driving job was back in 1994 for a company called BSP Trans out of Londonderry,NH. I was out of the Bangor, ME terminal and zoomed all over the downeast region as well as the north and the northwestern areas of the state during my 2 years there.	This truck would come to be my baby. It was a 92 International with a tiny little motor and a 9 speed, but it was my first permanantly assigned rig and so I loved it. Here I am parked at a lake after a day of humping freight in downeast Maine. I often stopped for a quick cool down during the hot summer.	I learned quickly how to drive in snow and went on some unusual, make-shift roads like this one en route to a salmon fishery.
With a northeast winter driving job comes all kinds of hair raising situations like this road covered in ice outside of Jackson, ME.	An independent's mid roof freightliner from Murfreesboro, TN.	A fine looking 98 Kenworth W900L leased to Dart about to head out of Nashville, TN.
An independent produce hauler from TX pulling into a NJ grocery warehouse in 1997.	A early 90's International logging truck caught in the act between Greenville and Jackman ME. Photographed in December of 2000.	A Kenworth T 600 leased to MS Carriers caught fleeing Memphis in 1998.

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