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    Amish in the News: From Amish Woman to Long-Haul Semi Driver

    Published: Jul 9, 2014 · Updated: Jul 9, 2014 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

    semiWow, life is funny.  You think you have it all figured out and then things change.  But can you imagine in the span of 18-years going from living an Amish life to driving a semi on long haul routes?   That is an incredible metamorphosis.  But that is exactly the story of an Indianapolis woman.  It's rare enough to be a woman in the male-dominated field, but to be a former Amish woman driving a semi. That is probably one of a kind!  I do know of one Plain Brethren man who drives a long-haul semi as his job.  

    In another life I might have found it fun to be a semi-driver.  There's a pull to the open road, the 24-hour diners, the powerful engines that are all part of the trucker mystique.  But my depth perception would have kept me out of that job. I have enough issues backing up my car or trying to parallel park, I doubt I'd fare well in a truck cab.

    Click here to read this incredible story. Keep on truckin' Verna!

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    Hi, my name is Kevin Williams and I am owner of Oasis Newsfeatures and editor of The Amish Cook newspaper column.

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    1. Missy

      July 10, 2014 at 1:55 pm

      It might be easier to be a long haul trucker now that they have all the computer hookups in the cab for the logbooks and they can't be fudged. But years ago my DH trained as a trucker and found that there was a big difference between a "legal" logbook, and an "honest" logbook, and so he quit. He also had this discussion one time at a supper at someone's house who was a trucker. They discussed it back and forth and heard later this plain man quit trucking all together.

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