"About the Author" After witnessing an accident in which only one little girl survived, Jeffs passion for running legal and profitable grew to a peek. Offering a personal account of how drivers view the industry, and what happens when they try to improve it. By showing interested parties that some drivers do actually care and that if given a chance, more and more drivers are trying to Do the Right Thing. His goal is for these drivers to be able to run legal and safe without Reprisal. Driving for approximately 30-years, this little girl inspired Jeff to share his stories. As echoes of the little girls screams haunted him in the weeks after the accident, he decided to write Running Legal Blues. By telling his stories, Jeff outlines the old renegade ways of trucking past, and what actually happens to Drivers that try to bring positive changes to the industry on their own in the modern day trucking world. Starting with his first deuce and half in the army, Jeff then moved on to trucks of all shapes and sizes during his thirty year career. He delivered such products as food and gas locally, then on to delivering disaster relief supplies to hurricane areas. Currently he is an Owner Operator of his own eighteen wheeler running freight coast to coast. Jeff in his own way is trying to let the FMCSA and other drivers know that they are not alone when they try to make trucking safer. Todays drivers know that safety is number one. His goal is to change the current image of the trucking industry form being renegades of the road, back to what they use to be known as Knights of the Highway
Starting out in the military with deuce and a half's, Georgia owner/operator Jeff Head has dedicated his life to being a trucker for the last 30 years. Becoming a professional driver in the days during deregulation, Jeff like many of his fellow drivers was an outlaw trucker, bending rules to fit the schedule required when he was a company driver. When he hurt is back though, crushing three discs unloading a load with a manual pallet jack, he began examining his life as a trucker and how he was operating.
Running Legal Blues tells of his journey towards running compliant and the costs he has paid to do so; those of losing friends from blowing the whistle on a gas tanker company who thought drivers were a dime a dozen and why he got into a lease purchase program to get his first truck among other stories of his life as both an outlaw and compliant driver.
Written in a down home manner by Jeff Head, Running Legal Blues may not be written in expert style, but it is heartfelt and very truthful of how trucking was and still is in some cases. Parts of this book will make you smile, parts will make you cry and parts will make you angry as you read it; that makes it worth reading in itself, but the lessons it teaches is the real reason you should buy this book. Trucking is not for sissies as Jeff Head relates it; neither is running legal.Sandy Long
