Troy’s Treasures: By Troy Miller For 43-year old Morgan Warner of Judith Gap, Montana, a small town squarely between equally small stops like Harlowton and Eddie’s Corner, Morgan lives at a faster pace, despite the often slower pace of the small towns around him (Judith Gap is located about halfway between Billings and Great Falls). Trucking since he was 18 years old, Morgan has never been one to live slowly or let opportunities pass him by, and this hard-working family man moves at his own (faster) pace! Two days after graduating high school, Morgan was hauling grain and moving farm equipment for a custom harvest crew in Oklahoma. By winter, he was moving liquid fertilizer to Canada, and shortly thereafter, he got a steady gig hauling logs for Tony Miller, a fellow resident of Judith Gap. Learning to go trucking from his older brother Bryson (58), Morgan fondly remembers riding with his older brother in Bryson’s black 359 (complete with a set of boxes). Much like Morgan, his brother Bryson wasn’t interested in the slow lane. Trucking at 16 years old, Bryson had a profound influence on his younger brother, Morgan. Being brothers, they often learned side-by-side and stuck by each other. Marrying his wife Jolene at 20 and having two children by the time he was 21, Morgan had enough irons in the fire to keep any blacksmith very busy. Naturally, that meant he needed to buy his own truck! Getting his hands on a 1984 Pete 359 and Ravens flatbed, Morgan painted the blue rig purple and black and then ran it for several years, until he was able to upfit to a 1998 Peterbilt 379. Around 2005, Morgan began hauling cattle for Bertolino of Billings, Montana, and then eventually traded up to a 2003 Peterbilt with a CAT “Bridge” motor that, in Morgan’s words, “Never really ran the way I wanted it to” (words you’ll often hear about the Bridge CAT engines, which were the first C15s made in 2002 and 2003 meant to “bridge” the gap between the pre-emissions 6NZ and the emissionized ACERT engines that were very unpopular). Still, Morgan moved livestock for Bertolino in a quad-axle cattle pot for six years, developing his knowledge of the cattle industry. While moving the livestock for Bertolino, Morgan began noticing a sharp, two-tone green 379 on the dealer 62 10-4 Magazine / August 2025 MOVING AT HIS OWN PACE
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