Trucking Stories for Those Who Do
Over the last couple months I have been
pulling and posting some of my trucking stories for those who drive. While a few are not straight up trucking stories they all came from my trucking experiences in life. I decided to do something a little different.
It is my intention in the near future if I live long enough, to write a book on
trucking and how the Lord got me through it all. My writing has definitely
improved from when I started seven years ago. That can easily be seen by
reading some of my first stories. Over
time I have posted almost 260 blog posts and I dug 40 of the better trucking and faith based ones out and put them in a paper so I can go down the list and update
and edit them for publication. I published them here as is with links.
It is my goal later to travel around and
meet truckers and compile a bunch of stories from a trucker’s points of view. I
would like stories that are faith based or can save others from making some of
the mistakes we made getting to where we are at in life. If you have one you
would like to share send me and e-mail and let me know what it is about.
The stories listed here have not been
corrected or edited yet. They are just
as I wrote them over the years. It is
roughly 150 written pages so it is going to take me some time to get them all
done. I invite you to share them with your friends and give me feedback about
what you like or don’t like about them. Eventually I hope to have the links
with them all when done. For now the original date is included so you can go to
the year and month on my sidebar and find the story you might be interested in. The ones with the lower numbers were mostly from before I started getting readers.
Hope you enjoy them. I am working on
getting them in a format where I can share them on a CD, thumb drive or some
other format that I can do for free. If I do make a book it will be at cost. I
am not interested in making a profit I got that when I lived the experience. The story "Sometimes Following, Means Waiting" is about how I got started trucking.
8/22/2012 Sometimes
Following, Means Waiting
5/28/2012 Trucker Logic
6/23/2016 A
Tale of Life and Death
9/14/2012
Deadhead? or Not? How to Judge?
4/12/2012
How
Not to Go Down a Hill, Vietnam
11/18/2014 Trucking Smarter Not Harder
7/14/2013 Driving on Prayer
4/11/2014 When God Says, "April Fool”
6/7/2015 Coming Full Circle
6/13/2012 Victory Over Stuffitis
7/24/2015 Church of the Eighty Foot Parking Lot
10/15/2015 Are You Who You Think You Are?
11/7/2011 How Not to Go Down a Hill, Murphy's Law at
Work
12/15/2013 Putting Your Hand to the Plow
2/22/2013 Is America Dysfunctional or Reprobate
6/22/2013 Building a Hedge of God's Protection
12/25/2014 A Meal with the Least of These
2/13/2014 A Wanna Be Sky God
7/8/2013 Three Things God Can’t Do
2/6/2012 How I Went From $150,000 to Nothing in a
Heartbeat
9/9/2013 A Truckers Perspective
12/7/2013 My Scrooged Birthday
10/18/2013 The Evolution of Trucker Logic
1/23/2014 Things I Learned the Hard Way
4/25/2012 America Under A Threat Worse Than 9/11 or
Katrina
3/8/2014 Unfinished Business
1/16/2014 When God Answers
12/15/2013 Good News for Christian Truckers
12/15/2013 Putting Your Hand to the Plow
11/13/2013 Agent Orange Tell a Vet
8/27/2013 Leap of Faith
9/12/2013 My Life as a Moonie
3/20/2013 Often Missed Detail in the Bible http://rictheturtleryan.blogspot.com/2013/03/some-often-missed-bible-details.html
8/24/2013 You Are What the Army Needs You to Be
8/19/2013 The Road to Emmaus
1/5/2013 Driving with Zero Fossil Fuels
12/26/2013 Whoa God
7/8/2013 It Rains on the Good and the Bad Both
4/19/2011 Why Americas Losing the Industry and
Marketing Battle
6/26/2012 All Things Work Together For Good
http://rictheturtleryan.blogspot.com/2012/06/all-things-work-together-for-good.html
These stories are the core of a book I am writing. Your feedback, both good and bad is appreciated. You can contact me via my e-mail sclaus2u@hotmail.com If you would like a copy of the list with links sent to you, send me a stamped and self addressed envelope to Ric "The Turtle" Ryan at 12079 E. Lucky Point Road, Wheatland, IN 47597 along with $2.00 which is a about 12 cents per story and I will send it to the address you put on the envelope, you can use the same envelope to send comments on the stories. Any change left over goes to my local food bank or truck stop ministries that support truckers.
If you would be interested in a copy of the book fill in the order form below, so I can contact you when it is done. I am also trying to get some t-shirts done. If you might be interested in those add your size and the color shirt you prefer.
Name _______________________________________
Address _____________________________________
City________________________________________
State________________________________________
Zipcode______________________________________
E-Mail Address ___________________________________
Shirt Size ___________ Color Preference_______________
Phone # (optional)________________________
The picture at the start of the post is the one I am putting on my first T-shirt. When you realize the significance of Gabbatha, which is where Jesus was judged and where we spend our lives, it will have more meaning. It is a good starting point for a conversation. The word is only used one time in the Bible.
These stories are the core of a book I am writing. Your feedback, both good and bad is appreciated. You can contact me via my e-mail sclaus2u@hotmail.com If you would like a copy of the list with links sent to you, send me a stamped and self addressed envelope to Ric "The Turtle" Ryan at 12079 E. Lucky Point Road, Wheatland, IN 47597 along with $2.00 which is a about 12 cents per story and I will send it to the address you put on the envelope, you can use the same envelope to send comments on the stories. Any change left over goes to my local food bank or truck stop ministries that support truckers.
If you would be interested in a copy of the book fill in the order form below, so I can contact you when it is done. I am also trying to get some t-shirts done. If you might be interested in those add your size and the color shirt you prefer.
Name _______________________________________
Address _____________________________________
City________________________________________
State________________________________________
Zipcode______________________________________
E-Mail Address ___________________________________
Shirt Size ___________ Color Preference_______________
Phone # (optional)________________________
The picture at the start of the post is the one I am putting on my first T-shirt. When you realize the significance of Gabbatha, which is where Jesus was judged and where we spend our lives, it will have more meaning. It is a good starting point for a conversation. The word is only used one time in the Bible.
