regulations and mandates. Now, he said its most important roles are working with the American Trucking Associations on the hours of service issue and increasing awareness of how the NTA can serve smaller companies. “I don’t see how people through my time
and tenure, I could have made it without being a part of the association, and I don’t see how trucking companies that are going to move into a next generation are going to be able to do it without having someone like the Nebraska Trucking Association,” he said. All of his brothers eventually went into trucking. When Waldo moved to Arkansas to retire, he ran across an Atlas Van Lines agency in booming Bentonville, and he and his third son, John, bought it together. John eventually bought out Waldo and grew close to the Walton family, owners of Walmart. As the retailer grew, so did Winter Moving and Storage. Oldest son Wally later joined that company after working for Atlas and other
moving companies. The youngest son, Mark, owns Mark Services, a refrigerated operation in Lincoln with half a dozen trucks and repair shop. Even at this stage of the game, Bob tries
to stay involved with every aspect of the company. He maintains a commercial driver’s license and drives a little if one of his drivers is having mechanical problems and needs a changeout, or if the company needs someone to help make a short run. In most cases, the company probably could get by without his help, but he says it’s good for the boss to stay involved. “I’ve always maintained that I can do
anything that anybody here can do,” he said. “I can still put a truck in the dock. I can run a forklift. Anything that I ask anybody else to do around here, I can also do it. And my son is the same way.” That son, Michael, is following in his
father’s footsteps. Like Bob, he underwent a lifelong education in the transportation and
logistics business. As a child, Michael said, “I was small enough, I could shimmy between block storage or scoot behind the perimeters and go look for pallets that they were having trouble finding. So I was always in it, whether it was busting out floors in a trailer helping, or in the warehouse being a part of it. You know, in the beginning it was a game.
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