Bennett Presents: Legacy, Faith & Heavy Haul—David Davenport on "The Highway Knows Your Name"

Show Notes

Step into the cab and buckle up—this episode of Transportation Nation unpacks a legacy of faith, family, and fearless trucking that’s bound to inspire anyone connected to life on the road.

In this compelling conversation, we’re joined by Speaker A—author, preacher, and veteran heavy-haul operator—whose new book, The Highway Knows Your Name, weaves together generations of trucking know-how with life lessons and spiritual wisdom. Hear how Speaker A's family transformed from a small-town service station crew into a powerhouse in the heavy haul industry, leaning on teamwork, grit, and a steadfast faith at every turn.

Discover what happens behind the scenes of massive, superload moves—where planning can take a year, details make all the difference, and “the devil’s in the details,” as passed down from Speaker A’s own father. You’ll hear why safety, prayer, and trust became non-negotiable parts of every job, and how a simple prayer tradition among rough-and-tumble truckers turned into a lifeline for crews stretched to their limits.

Key highlights include:

• The wild story of a near disaster in a muddy Texas ditch, and how quick thinking—and a little divine intervention—kept the day from going off the rails 23:00.
• How writing down trucking tales and faith lessons, first for a church newsletter, blossomed into a book meant to preserve a family's legacy, cement trucker camaraderie, and invite new readers into a life-changing perspective 17:13.
• Why “boomers” (aka load binders) carry lessons that go far beyond rigging, revealing both the dangers and discipline of the trade.

Perfect for anyone who loves true stories from the highway, values the legacy of family businesses, or seeks encouragement to blend faith and work. Whether you’re a seasoned driver, industry insider, or simply curious about the human side of trucking, you don’t want to miss this heartfelt episode.

Subscribe for more conversations like this—where the stories of the road meet the lessons that last a lifetime.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 Preserving Family Legacy Through Trucking Stories
01:26 Coming Full Circle: The Bennett Connection
04:08 Becoming a Pastor & Truck Driver at 19
05:25 Life Lessons Learned from Dad
07:27 The Davenport Siblings’ Business Journey
09:20 Blending Road Stories with Faith
10:23 The Hidden Challenges of Heavy Haul Trucking
12:38 Why the Book Was Written—Legacy & Faith
14:11 The Boomer Story: Trucking Hazard & Humor
16:08 Connecting Trucking Lessons to Scripture
18:54 Prayer Practices in a Tough Trucking Crew
22:01 Divine Help in Impossible Road Situations
23:08 Hand Caught in Truck Door: A Harrowing Tale
29:05 How to Get “The Highway Knows Your Name”
30:20 Gratitude, Farewell, and Faith Forward

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SPEAKER_00: Our family has a uh
really rich history in the

trucking business, and uh I
wanted to preserve a little of

that so that uh my kids, my
grandkids, my nieces, nephews,

their kids would be able to
remember a little bit about

where we came from.

SPEAKER_01: Well, hello, Kaylee.

I you've been on a little triple
vacation with the cabin, right?

SPEAKER_02: I have, yeah.

I couldn't be on the past
podcast that y'all did with um

the Macklemore boys.

Uh, but you know, I know that
y'all did a great job, and I was

sad to miss it, but I know it
went very well.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we had a good
we had a good time.

It was it was a lot of fun.

But we did mix miss you, just so
you know.

SPEAKER_02: Thank you.

SPEAKER_01: We did miss you
being there.

And uh but yes, you know, we do
have a very special guest with

us today, Mr.

David Davenport.

David, welcome to Transportation
Nation.

Thank you.

It's my pleasure to be here.

You know, we talk about your
book.

I have a copy of Highway, The
Highway Knows Your Name.

We have both read it.

It's uh it's a great book.

We've enjoyed reading it.

Uh it's it's a pretty amazing
story.

But uh before we get into the
book, we first want to talk

about a little something more.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah.

So, David, what's so special
that we want our listeners to

know is you were with Bennett in
a past life.

Uh and I say past life because
it was over 20 years ago.

It was.

Which feels like forever ago.

And I think it's such a God
thing how um, you know, God does

that.

He brings things full circle.

SPEAKER_00: He does.

SPEAKER_02: And so why don't you
share with us a little bit about

your experience with this?

SPEAKER_00: Okay.

Well, in uh the year 2005, uh my
brothers and I started a new

crucking company, will be the
second one we started.

And uh Bennett was the company
we chose to be with as we got

that company off the ground.

And uh they were very good to
us, nursed us right up into

being a uh uh a very good
company.

And uh in 2008, because we were
doing super heavy loads, our

paths kind of diverged, so we
agreed that maybe we should uh

separate at that point, but we
always stayed friends and uh and

partners in the industry.

And in fact, I brought a couple
of things just because you were

an agent with us.

We were, right?

And uh and this is a trophy we
got for being agent of the year.

SPEAKER_02: Very nice, love that
so special back in the year

2006, I believe.

SPEAKER_00: So I'm very proud of
those.

They have a uh special place on
the mantle by my fireplace at my

house.

So very nice.

Yes.

SPEAKER_02: All these years
later, they still sit on your

fireplace.

I know that means a lot to Mrs.

Taylor to know that.

Yeah, well deserved too.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's very
nice.

Yeah, very nice.

So yeah, I think that year that
2006 you did over 1.8 million in

revenue.

That was pretty strong.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_00: We started the
company in 2005.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So in 2006 to do
that kind of I'd say you knew a

few customers back then.

Yeah, we had a few.

We had a few.

SPEAKER_02: So let me ask you
too.

Um, so I know you said this in
your book that you started

preaching at a young age.

So why don't you tell us about
that, how you became a preacher

and you were a heavy haul driver
at the same time.

SPEAKER_00: Well, uh I grew up
in a farming town.

So when I was a young teen, we
were driving those uh rice

trucks around for the farmers.

What during harvest season,
they'd need help with that.

So we all learned to drive
trucks of some sort at a young

age.

Uh I gave my life to the Lord
when I was 11, and I and I gave

myself to him fully when I was
16, and then at 19, he called me

into the ministry.

So since that day, I've been a
pastor of some sort somewhere.

Uh so that's that's a long
history, but I I was never the

pastor that could uh really feel
good about sitting in the

office.

I wanted to be out there with
the people.

And so over the years I've lived
my life with truck drivers, and

uh they're my people.

And that's why I wrote this
book, because I hoped that maybe

it fall in the it would fall
into the hands of just one or

two people that need to know
Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_01: Very, very nice.

Well, the book is pretty
amazing.

I mean, we've enjoyed reading
it.

I know Mrs.

Taylor has and and others.

Um, but what what amazed me, uh,
and we I know we talked a little

about it this morning about our
about our kids and all of that,

but you had a pretty cool dad,
right?

It it talks a lot.

You you reference in the book
about your father and the

lessons he shared with you.

So before we get a lot farther,
tell us a little bit about your

dad.

SPEAKER_00: Well, my dad had
uncommon skills in getting

things done with getting things
done with a truck.

Uh, he had been a uh heavy
hauler most of his life.

And uh in 1967, he decided to
come off the road, and we had a

service station in the little
town of Danbury, Texas, where we

all worked.

But he couldn't keep that diesel
smoke out of his nose.

We uh ended up with some
wreckers and uh eventually a

wrecker for 18 wheelers in big
trucks.

So uh he taught us all the uh
all the tricks of rigging, uh

overturning trucks that were in
ditches, and uh he was one of

those guys that said, I'm gonna
show you a couple times and then

you'll figure it out.

And he was very patient and uh
he had a wealth of knowledge

that was just uh really good.

And fortunately, uh I'm the
oldest of six kids.

Oh wow.

So I have five younger brothers,
and we had our little princess

sister last.

But my brothers were all really
uh blessed with a good aptitude.

So we were a ready-made crew for
my dad as we moved those service

stations and record business
into a heavy all company.

And uh my sister, I uh I'm 16
years older than her, but when

she got to be a teenager, she
moved in and started working in

the office and in the yard and
driving forklifts and all the

stuff that you have to do with
the trucking company.

So our whole family was really
blessed.

SPEAKER_01: Well, I notice in
the book you talk about your

your your brothers too, Donnie
and Dennis, right?

They all they you worked a lot
with them and Richard, okay, and

Mike.

SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes, we all
worked together uh for much of

our lives.

In our first company, we were
all together.

That was Dave Davenport and
Sons.

We started that company in um
the early 70s.

Actually, the service stations
that really started it go back

to 1967.

And then uh af Mamut, an
international company, came in

and bought that company in 1989.

Sadly, uh my father had died at
the age of 59.

Too young.

Too young in 1986, so he didn't
get to see that.

So we all worked together at uh
Davenport Mamut for a while, and

then people had other ideas, so
a couple of my brothers went off

and started a different company,
and so um then in 2005, two of

my brothers came back, uh,
Richard and Mike, and said, we

think it's time to start a new
trucking company, and we need

somebody to take care of the uh
administrative stuff.

So I joined them and uh we
started Davenport Transport and

Rigging.

And our brother Donnie joined us
in in sales a couple of years

later.

And so we we had a good time
working together there.

And very nice, yeah, very nice.

I still see my brothers every
few days.

SPEAKER_01: That's very nice.

Yeah, it's it's uh and you
mentioned that the that in the

book, so that's pretty nice.

SPEAKER_02: We know all about
the family business side.

You do know and I love um I'm
glad you asked the question

about his dad, because I feel
like I got to know your dad just

the way you wrote about him.

Yes.

And I know you titled a lot of
your devotionals and lessons

after his lesson.

Yes.

Um so I know one of them was you
must trust that green light.

Is that the title of it?

It was like you trust the green
light.

SPEAKER_00: It might be.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, something like
that.

SPEAKER_00: I think it's like a
full of green lights or

something.

Yes, that's it.

SPEAKER_02: And uh that spoke to
me because I'm big on that too.

And then about falling asleep
because you talked about what,

you know, one time he fell
asleep and he was big on, you

know, keeping y'all awake, y'all
being a team.

And I just I was like, oh that's
why we love this book so much

because you blend so much of
your stories on the road,

safety, and um tying it all back
to biblical principles is so

special.

So again, going back to the
book, um, my next question for

you is I I want our audience to
know what you know, what do

people not understand about how
how complicated and hard it is

to be a heavy haul driver?

Because you do give I I love
that you give pictures in the

book and you show just on the
dash all the gauges and all the

switches.

And if you make one wrong thing,
you know, something could

happen.

And so can you explain some of
that?

SPEAKER_00: Sure.

Well, sadly, my uh actual truck
driving experience uh on a daily

basis ended a long time ago.

I was more the planner and did
the route surveys.

And I guess what people don't
know is when you move one of

those superloads, I mean you're
getting up into you know five,

six hundred thousand pounds
gross, that sometimes you'll be

planning that project for a
year.

And uh on one we did for
Phillips 66, I had to do three

different route surveys from
Tulsa to Billings, Montana,

because as you know, things
change on the road.

So um, you know, there's
figuring out turning radius,

there's figuring out center
gravity center of gravity

issues, how you make sure you
get that thing loaded just

right.

Um how are we gonna deal with
weak bridges?

How are we gonna deal with uh
narrow lanes when we've got a

dual-lane trailer uh configuring
complicated equipment?

There is there is just a lot
that goes into that uh whole

process of getting one of those
loads.

And I tell people all the time,
and probably there are a lot of

people uh even in your audience
that do this, and they know what

I mean.

Just because we make it look
easy doesn't mean it is easy.

SPEAKER_02: Professionals make
it look easy.

They do really do.

The professional athletes and
singers alike, they're like that

everyone makes it look so easy.

And like you said, it's not.

There's a lot that goes on
behind the scenes.

You and your dad say in the
book, the devil's in the

details.

SPEAKER_01: That's right.

SPEAKER_02: So yes.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, very much so.

Yeah, very much so.

So I know you mentioned a minute
ago, you know, I wanted to ask

your customer, why did you write
the book?

Well, you kind of mentioned that
you wanted people to be come to

know the Lord, and that's the
bottom line.

We know that.

But there's a little more to
that answer.

I mean, you wrote why did you
write that book?

I mean, to me, I mean, your dad
shares stories with you.

I mean, there's a lot in there
that not just because you want

people to be saved, and that's
important, don't get me wrong,

but there's a lot in this book.

So why did write it why did you
write the book?

SPEAKER_00: Well, our family has
a uh really rich history in the

trucking business.

And uh I wanted to preserve a
little of that so that uh my

kids, my grandkids, my nieces,
nephews, their kids would be

able to remember a little bit
about where we came from.

SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I agreed.

Well, you definitely you
definitely accomplished that uh

to be able to see all that.

And I mean the you call them
lessons, uh, and I and I know

that for I know why.

To me, they're stories.

You're telling some amazing
stories in that book.

SPEAKER_02: And I think I I hope
that I had that kind of memory

one day because I always worry,
you know, you live in it, but

years down the road when you
want to leave something like you

said, it's a piece of legacy for
you.

I hope that I can remember these
stories.

I love hearing the stories.

And we went on a similar journey
with Bennett a couple years ago.

When Bennett turned 50 years
old, my grandmother felt the

same way.

She said, We have got to write
down Bennett's history and tell

some of our stories of how we
got here.

And so this is a great piece for
um your children, your

grandchildren, all the many
generations to come, and then

for people to come to know the
Lord.

Um, so let's talk about another
lesson that you shared.

Lesson I think Lee, it's 25.

The title of it is something
that your dad said.

There better not be one chain
left on your headache rack.

And in that lesson, you
mentioned what a boomer is.

So can you share with us that
story and what that means?

SPEAKER_00: I can tell you that.

And uh every new driver that
came to Davenport Transport had

to relearn that technology
because most people call those

load binders, right?

Uh-huh.

But to my dad, they were
boomers.

Yeah.

So I didn't know what a boomer
was.

SPEAKER_02: Well, that's his
dad's term.

Yeah, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, I gotta breed
this.

And then these days we largely
use the boomers that are

ratchets.

They're much safer.

Yes.

You can uh get the chains
tighter actually.

But back in the early days, we
only had those kinds with that

lever that snapped over.

So you had to put a cheater pipe
on them and just pull them with

all your weight down, and when
they went down, they kind of

clicked.

So to get those things loose,
you would take that cheater pipe

and put it on the very end and
lift up on it, and when it came

loose, it just made a pow.

SPEAKER_02: Can't imagine.

SPEAKER_00: And that sounds like
yes, we had at least two very

experienced drivers.

One when that cheater pipe
turned loose with that boomer,

it the pipe hit him and broke
his jaw.

We had another one who had some
Can you imagine the pain?

Yeah.

Another one, it knocked his
teeth out.

So we were, they were, they were
boomers.

SPEAKER_01: They definitely,
yeah, they lived up to the name.

They did, indeed.

They definitely did.

They definitely did.

Well, I know you've got those 60
lessons, they're 60s lessons, I

call them stories.

And what's interesting to me,
it's all around the trucking,

but you God revealed to you
during those lessons how to

bring the scriptures around God
to make sure that they

understood it, you know.

Now we'll get to the boomer
lesson a little bit later during

our driven by faith segments,
but um why did why did you want

to put in the scriptures too?

What how was that?

How did you come up with that to
help support that story through

scriptures?

SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, I'm
a pastor.

Yes, sir.

We yeah.

So to me, everything reveals the
hand of the Lord to us if if

we're just open to seeing that.

So I began uh one one way I
remembered these things, if I

I'm a journaler.

I have these notebooks that go
back for 30 years where things

happened and I wrote them down.

So that's where I failed to do
that, write anything down.

SPEAKER_02: No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so what I
started doing was writing these

as devotions for the people in
our church.

So I would just send them out
every two or three weeks.

In fact, I've got one really
good friend who is a football

coach, and he would keep, he
doesn't go to our church, but I

know him through some other
activities we do together.

And he would call me up or catch
me somewhere and say, Hey David,

you haven't written anything in
a while.

So he was always kind of behind
me, keep writing, keep because

he loved the stories.

And he, in fact, is the one that
said, you know, you ought to

gather all those up and put them
into book form.

And I said, Well, why not?

So I sent him off to a publisher
and uh they looked at it and

said, you know, this is this
kind of stories we like these

days of you and your father and
things like that.

And so uh they said, let us look
at it for a couple of weeks.

Well, three days later they
called and said, Oh yeah, we

want to publish this one.

So it was just a bonus that it
ended up put as a as a book and

and a real blessing to me that
it might reach some of my

people, some of those truck
drivers out there that are that

are just doing that hard work
day after day.

Uh I have nothing but love and
respect for uh for those

brothers and sisters I've had
out there on the road.

SPEAKER_01: Well, what was
interesting reading the stories

was at the end you did share the
scriptures that tied it in.

So it made it the stories even
more powerful because you

related it, you know, back back
to the scriptures.

So um I think people will
definitely be touched by that.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.

I I enjoyed it because I always
look forward to that.

I'm like, which biblical lesson,
how is he gonna tie this into

the Bible?

And you always did.

Yeah, I think it fits so well.

So um, like we've said, you
know, the the spiritual

component of this is so
important to you.

And one thing that we want our
audience to know that you guys,

um, you and your team before
y'all started a job, y'all would

pray.

So can you share with us how
that got started?

SPEAKER_01: Well, and these guys
are rough and subject to the

city.

SPEAKER_02: Right, yeah.

They are yeah.

SPEAKER_01: So they they wanted
to pray with you?

That's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00: Well, that kind of
took on a little at a time.

I at first I would just I would
just pray for those loads

because I knew that we were
really in the place to

potentially cause a lot of harm
uh or tear up something.

So I'd always pray.

And then I had a couple of
drivers that were Christians,

and we would pray together.

And then it got to the point
that uh we would say, All right,

boys, before we leave, could
come around to the back of the

load or the front of the truck,
somewhere where we could be

private, and we'd pray.

And uh uh I in one of my
stories, we one of our uh prayer

meetings got caught by a
reporter when we moved uh at

Davenport Mamut when we moved
the Kearney Arch over I-80, and

uh they put it in a newspaper in
Kearney.

Well, slowly but surely that
became such a habit, and you

have to remember that we had a
relatively small crew.

There were usually 15 or 20 of
us at any time that would be a

part of a job.

So we were together a lot.

SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're like
family.

SPEAKER_00: We were, we were,
and uh I remember when it first

started to take hold because
usually while the guys were

finalizing thing, I was talking
to the customer, I was doing

something, and they'd say, Hey,
don't forget we gotta pray.

So we'd come over and pray.

Well, I knew that it was working
the day that I was really busy

with a customer, and I walked
back over to the truck and I

said, Well, hey guys, and they
said, We saw you were busy.

When we went ahead and prayed
without you.

And so I I said, Thank you,
Jesus.

That's the way this is supposed
to work.

And uh even though I I retired
uh a while back, I'm I'm hoping

some of them still doing that.

Still do that on the loads that
they pull.

SPEAKER_01: You know, I when I
read in here, when I read the

book, um, from a naked eye, you
know, there were times during

your your time being a truck
driver and working with the

team, that but the naked eye,
you'd look at that situation you

you were in and you'd go,
there's no way we're gonna get

through this.

I mean, you would you would face
a difficult time going, when am

I gonna get through this?

But yet you took the time, and I
remember reading the guys that

worked with you, you know,
they'd go all it figures he

prayed and God gave him an
answer, and now we're gonna we

gotta we gotta figure it out.

So what what does that mean to
you to be able to look at a

difficult situation and know
that our heavenly father was

gonna get you through that
difficult by the naked eye, by

the human naked eye, there was
no chance.

SPEAKER_00: Correct.

SPEAKER_01: But by his heavenly
eyes, that's he gave you the

direction, right?

SPEAKER_00: That's right.

The Lord was always really good
about either sending the

resource we needed like fuel.

I wrote one story about uh uh
running out of fuel in those

transporters, which would have
been a just a a disaster.

And and and suddenly there's a
fuel truck after and the guy

said, You did that.

And I said, No, no, I asked for
that.

The Lord did that.

But uh just or else he would get
us together and give us the

insights we need to overcome we
needed to overcome that

particular obstacle.

But uh yes, it was it was
amazing.

Uh good, good crew that we had.

They were they were
out-of-the-box thinkers and they

never gave up.

And between that can-do attitude
and our reliance on the Lord, we

we just got things done.

SPEAKER_01: Well, and and you
definitely did you definitely

pull that off um to make that
happen.

I know reading the book, I know
it's not part of the scripting

here, but but there was one part
I thought you'd just share real

quickly with us.

I know it's not in the
scripting, but um tell the story

of how you got your hand caught
in the door.

SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's a good
story.

I love I love that story.

Well, as I told you, my dad was
the master.

That was back when we were
mostly doing wrecker business.

And we had uh this we had this
company call us, and and we live

uh just around what we call the
Brazos River bottom in Texas,

and so it's the part that floods
when the Brazzas River rises, so

it's always a little boggy,
always a little muddy.

So we got called there was this
big wireline truck, and I don't

know if you've seen one of
those, but they have a huge uh

bed on the back, they have big
spools, they're very heavy,

they're they're top heavy, and
they use them to go in and and

what they call log and oil well.

Well, he'd gotten back on a um
very soft road and started

sliding off, which happens.

I mean, no fault of the driver.

You're just taking a big truck
in a place where it doesn't

belong, but in the oil field you
have to do that.

So they called us and said, get
here as quick as you can.

So we had that had our our
largest wrecker, which is just a

regular 18-wheel style truck,
and I was in a smaller, about a

five-ton single-axle truck that
was wrecker.

My brother Dennis went along to
do the rigging.

So we got there, and sure
enough, here's this big truck.

He's on this levee, he's leaning
really hard.

And dad figures it out.

He says, Okay, David, we want
you to do is right where he's

leaning, we're gonna just jump,
and the ditches were deep.

We're just gonna jump you right
off in that ditch.

And and I looked at him like,
oh, what are you talking about?

He said, No, no, no, you're
gonna have to get there and

we're gonna tie you to the top
of that truck to keep it from

turning over, and I'm getting
the front and I'm gonna hook the

winch on there and I'm gonna
pull him forward.

Well, my dad had a trick that he
did, and those old trucks didn't

have what we call airshift
transmissions.

They were always, they were two
boxes, and that one had a

five-speed main and a four-speed
auxiliary, right?

So you had to have the auxiliary
in neutral for the winch to work

without the truck moving.

But he had this trick that he
would do.

He would just reach up and grab
that auxiliary and put it in

gear when he saw the need for
it, and all of a sudden the

truck would start driving while
the winch was winching, which

means things happened really
fast.

So he put me over in that ditch.

I'm I'm I'm like this, I'm
facing down.

Oh my god.

I'm tied up to the top of this
load.

And he says, Now, son, when I
get that truck moving, you slack

that winch off.

And I said, Okay, dad.

And the winches had what you
call a dog that you could kick

out and the winch would free
spool.

And I said, if it gets too bad,
I'll just kick the dog out and

we'll be fine.

So anyway, I'm down here looking
down.

Dad, I start seeing that thing
move, and I am winching, uh,

letting the winch off fast as I
can.

All of a sudden, he grabs that
gear and he starts driving and

winching at the same time.

Well, this truck is going away
from me at what seemed to be

light speed.

I I try to kick the dog out, but
uh when it's under pressure and

he's got me in a real bind the
way he's going, it won't kick

out.

So now I'm I'm watching as as my
truck just starts turning.

And when it reached the point of
no return, I said, I gotta get

out of here.

So I kick the driver's door open
and put my hand up on the cab so

I could climb out.

And about that time the truck
flipped over.

So now the door that was open
has slammed on my hand.

Can you imagine the pain of
that?

Oh my gosh.

And now my door, my feet are
standing on the driver's door.

My I mean the passenger door.

My hand is slammed in the
driver's door, so I'm just

stretched out here.

I realize the truck's still
running, so I was able to go

down and turn the key off.

SPEAKER_01: At least he had one
hand.

I had one hand free.

SPEAKER_00: And I felt that warm
trickle of blood running down my

arm.

So here I am, caught, truck
laying on its side, hand slammed

in one door, feet standing on
the other.

And luckily, my brother Dennis
came back, and you know, that

door was was heavy, but he was
able to get it open enough for

me to get my hand out.

And uh long story short, uh I
got out of the truck, we got

that wireline truck up and
stable.

Dad came back, and we flipped
the truck back over and pulled

it out.

And no real damage to the truck,
right?

Oh, we in this big deep except
you got blood on the door.

This big deep uh muddy ditch,
everything was so soft that

nothing even got hurt on my
truck.

So we flipped it over, pulled it
out, and we drove back home just

fine.

And and uh mercifully, uh
nothing just just a few uh

bloody scratches on my hand,
nothing permanent.

Nice.

It was a great day.

Nice now.

Back then it was a terrifying
day.

Either no doubt.

SPEAKER_02: Sure.

I know you have so many stories
and lessons, David, in this

book.

Um, and I'm so thankful that
you've been able to share some

of those with us.

So why don't you tell our
readers how can they get access

to this book?

We want them to have an
opportunity to read this.

So where can we go to find it?

SPEAKER_00: Yes, uh, well, my
publisher has done a good job.

They tell me they've just
started marketing.

The book only became available
in late October.

And so right now you can get it
on Amazon, you can get it at

Barnes and Noble.

Uh, I have some friends that get
it at Walmart.

You can order it online, and
they tell me that before it's

over, they're gonna have have
them in the book uh sections of

truck stops.

SPEAKER_02: Love that.

That's wonderful.

That's great.

Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_01: That is awesome.

Well, this is this has been an
amazing book.

It was fun to read.

So, for those of you who are
watching this program today, the

first five, the text, the
information on on the screen

that you're seeing right, if
you'll text to that information,

we'll send you a book free.

The first five, the first five
that text is in, we're gonna

send them a brand new book
called The Highway Knows My

Name.

And David, we're so excited to
be able to do that for you

today.

So if you're watching, you can
get a copy of this book at no

charge, the first five.

All right.

Send us a text and we'll we'll
send you a book for your charge.

SPEAKER_00: And that's because
the highway knows your name too.

That's I'm not the only one.

Amen.

Amen.

The highway knows your name too.

SPEAKER_02: Oh, well, David,
thank you so much for joining us

today on our episode and for
sharing your stories on the road

and us getting to know you a
little bit and and telling our

readers where they can go, um,
our our listeners where they can

go to get this book, because we
want everybody to have a copy of

this book.

And just so thankful for you and
your heart for this industry.

And and of course, I know your
hometown loves having you as a

preacher.

So thank you for having us.

And be sure to, our audience
listening to us to like and

subscribe.

And we look forward to having
you listen to some of our other

conversations with David on our
Driven by Faith channel.

We'll dive more into the
spiritual aspect of this book.

So check us out.

SPEAKER_01: So we'll tell you,
God bless it, and be safe on the

road.