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Adam Wingfield

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August 2019: Two Trucks and a Fresh Start. Today: Nearly 40 Trucks, 140 Trailers, and a 40-Year-Old Carrier. Original

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By Adam Wingfield
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I have known Jerry Murphy for almost two years. We talk every couple of weeks. And I can tell you there is no version of him for the cameras. The man you hear on this episode is the same man I get on those calls. He did not have a driver’s license when he started his trucking company. It was suspended, for reasons connected to the drinking that had already cost him most of a career. He had a felony. He had no clear path and no template.
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He Found His Way Out of the Streets in a Prison Cell With a Pamphlet. This Is How Debon “DJ” Sims Built a Trucking Business Nobody Could Take From Him. Original

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By Adam Wingfield
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The decision that changed Debon Sims’s life got made in a prison cell, over a pamphlet. That is where this story starts, and it is worth sitting with, because it frames everything that comes after. In 2015, Sims got into what he calls the only kind of trouble he had ever been in, his first time, and the lights went out on the life he had been living. Behind the walls, a man handed him a pamphlet.
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PACCAR Is Raising the DEF Limp-Mode Speed From 5 MPH to 25 MPH. It Is Part of the Biggest Rollback of Diesel Emissions Enforcement in Years.

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By Adam Wingfield
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For any owner-operator who has ever been stranded on the shoulder of an interstate at 5 miles per hour because a sensor decided the diesel exhaust fluid system had a problem, the announcement PACCAR made on July 6, 2026 will read like overdue relief. The company is rolling out updated software for trucks equipped with its MX-11 and MX-13 engines that fundamentally changes how a DEF fault affects the truck, and the changes are significant. But this is not just a Kenworth and Peterbilt story.
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