10-4 Magazine March 2022

10-4 Magazine / March 2022 83 old, so his dad had to sign for him to be accepted. He served for three years, learned to drive big trucks and heavy equipment, and got to travel the world. Dave got to do some cool (and some not so cool) things during those years. Thank you for your service, Dave! When Dave’s enlistment was up and he got home, he wanted to drive truck, but was still too young to drive across state lines. He started working for JC Penney as a local delivery and install guy. His next job was with Hudson Farms in Avondale, PA. He thought he was going to be hauling fresh mushrooms to the markets, but what he really had to do was go to horse racetracks to load hay, straw, and horse manure in wire mesh basket trailers for the mushroom farm. On dry days, they stacked it a little higher, because it was lighter and would settle. One sunny day inMay Dave loaded in Monmouth, NJ. After throwing a mesh cover over his load and hitting the road, he exited onto Rt. 41 at Newport. The old bridge was 13’-2” high, and the road went from four lanes down to three, then down to just two lanes. There was a little Triumph sports car with his top down that tried to get around Dave before the bridge. He didn’t make it, so he ducked in behind Dave’s trailer. Stacked a little too high, his load hit the bridge and peeled part of his load back and filled that sports car with hay, straw, and manure, stopping the guy in his tracks. When he got home, Dave’s parents said they had seen him on TV. Ah, the glamorous life of trucking. Staying with Hudson Farms for about a year and a half, Dave then went to work with a local freight company called Scari’s in New Castle, DE. Later, he helped form Metro Express and was there for eight years, where he hauled a lot of Dupont pigments around New York City and New Jersey. The first truck Dave bought was a GMC Astro, which was leased to a local agent for North American Van Lines in Ft. Wayne, IN. Owning his own truck was a real learning experience for Dave. However, from there, Dave took what he learned about managing money and taking care of his truck and has used that knowledge throughout his entire trucking career. In 1981, Dave bought a Kenworth Aerodyne and began doing meat and produce routes with Bullet Express out of Brooklyn, NY for three years. When Dave leased on to Horseless Carriage of Paterson, NJ in 1984, it opened up a new world of opportunities to haul cool cars that he never could have imagined. During his over 34 years with Horseless Carriage, Dave met lots of famous people and hauled plenty of exotic cars – but one stands out more than the rest. When Dave was a kid, he had a picture of a neat old car, and he knew all the history. What he didn’t know was that one day he would be entrusted to haul, display, and drive the one-of-a-kind 1907 Silver Ghost Rolls Royce, valued at $40 million. During its history, this car never lost a race, rally, or challenge it was entered in between 1907 and 1908. It climbed “Rest and be Thankful” in England (a famous mountain road) and beat a White Motor car, which later became White Trucks. For six months, the Silver Ghost was on tour in the US to help raise money for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Dave hauled the car to nearly every Rolls Royce dealership in the country. The car would be at each dealership for several days, and at each place there were special guests who would have the honor of riding in the car. At the end of the ride, they received a certificate that said they had been duly chauffeured, signed by Dave. Dave had to wear an authentic chauffeur outfit when he was on duty. Before they left San Francisco, the people at Rolls Royce wanted to get