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Board Member Bio
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Name: |
Charles
P. Parfrey
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Number
of years trucking: |
23 |
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What
type of load do you typically haul?: |
Pulled
a flatbed. Now we broker flatbed, stepdeck and lowboy freight |
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Family
information: |
Wife,
Donna L. Parfrey |
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Favorite
Trucking Story or Moment: |
They
are all good...some better than others. We saw places in this
country we would never have had the chance to see if it were not
for the truck. |
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What
do you like about the industry?: |
The
people and the challenge. As a kid playing with trucks in the
dirt, all I wanted was a truck of my own, which I bought in 1984
and ran until 1994 when we started a brokerage office with three
people. Today we employ 16 people. The industry, through good
times and bad has been good to us. |
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What
makes you successful as an owner-operator?: |
I
believe it was because I ran my truck as a business and I paid
attention to business. |
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Why
are you a member of OOIDA?: |
In 1985 I
was looking for an organization that was doing something for the
driver/owner operator and the industry. OOIDA fit that bill. |