10-4 Magazine October 2023

10-4 Magazine / October 2023 63 of them are well known in the antique truck community, with Larry having owned a pair of Bicentennial Kenworth K100C and W900A trucks. Parked in the row across from us were two of the most amazing women you will meet in the trucking industry. Showing in the bobtail class, Kate Whiting had her 1973 Kenworth W900A named “Cherry Pie” and Eva Knelsen had her pink 2021 Kenworth W900L named “Ken Worth Jr” parked next to each other. With Jerry Linander setting up a canopy along with chairs behind both these trucks, it quickly became a gathering place for everyone to talk, hang out and relax. Other notable friends who showed up to the party included Dennis Durand of Jade Transport, who brought out his beautiful dark green 2017 KW W900L with a stainless Mercury styled sleeper, Rob Hallihan with his brightly colored green and orange 2022 Peterbilt 389, and Dylan Mercier, who drove over from his home in Illinois with his awesome 2005 Mack Vision and Wilson Hopper Bottom trailer, which is a tribute to fallen firefighters. Two driving legends attended the Truckers Jamboree. I had the pleasure of spending time talking with both David Sweetman and Hank Good over a pork chop dinner. One special surprise was Dave and Debbie Robinson, who made the drive over from their hometown of New Holland, Ohio. Having worked at Kenworth’s Chillicothe, Ohio plant for over 40 years, now retired, Dave is one of the organizers of the Kenworth Truck Show in Chillicothe every June and is an amazing friend to so many of us who know him. I had only spoken with Dave on the phone, never having met him in person, but when I did, he offered to give me a ride up to the restaurant in Jerry’s golf cart to meet up with a couple of longtime friends, Michael Gully and Calvin Cochran, for dinner. With so many friends at the show, it kept getting better. Mike and Katie Lambrecht and their son Carson (7) and daughter Addie (5) came from Gillett, Wisconsin. A longtime subscriber and reader of 10-4 and friends with Kim and John Jaikes, Mike is also a former truck driver. With his semi crazy son Carson in truck heaven being in Walcott, I decided to give Carson an assignment, and he become part of the 10-4 Magazine team for the weekend. Prior to this, my editor Dan Linss called and asked if I would take some photos and write this report. Telling him, “No problem,” I then told Kim what we were doing and asked for her help. While sitting in the driver’s seat of Kim’s Freightliner on Friday afternoon talking about this, Carson came up to the door and asked me what I was doing. “I’m getting ready to take some photos,” I said to Carson. “Cool, can I come?” he said back to me. With an idea in mind, I looked at Kim and said, “How cool would it be to capture the show from the view of a seven-year-old?” Kim quickly responded to me with, “OMG Mark, that’s a great idea!” Then, turning to Carson, I asked him, “Hey Carson, want to be my photographer today?” You can imagine his enthusiastic answer! After climbing out of Kimmy’s Freightliner, I showed Carson how to use my Nikon DSLR and then said, “Let’s go!” With my camera in hand, Carson began going from truck to truck taking photos. “Get low!” both Mike and I would tell him, and Carson would sit on the ground to get the low angle shot. While going down the rows of trucks, Carson began asking the owners and drivers like Dennis Durand to pose with their rigs. “I’m with 10-4 Magazine, could you please pose with your truck