36 10-4 Magazine / September 2025 saying, “I started driving trucks in 1979 and in 1982 I purchased my first truck, a 1979 Freightliner FLT cabover. I was leased to J&L Transportation in Almond, Wisconsin. It was November of 1984, and my daughter Sheena was one year old and my wife Pat was pregnant with our son Shane (who was born three months premature). I received a phone call from my bank telling me that my settlement check of $7,740 from J&L had bounced. So, I called Leon (who owned J&L) and he told me that they had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.” After having a heated discussion with Leon, he told Dennis that he needed the truck back, too, putting Dennis in a really bad position. “I was completely broke and couldn’t pay any bills – I even had to borrow gas money from my mother-in-law just so I could go down to the bankruptcy hearing in Madison in order to try and recoup my money.” At the hearing, the judge told Leon that he had 30 days to either pay Dennis what he owed him or give him his truck back. “Guess what? After those 30 days, I got my truck back,” said Dennis, continuing
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