Long haul
Truck driver Theron Wood checks to see that the 32-ton load of palm fat he is hauling from Tacoma to Caldwell, Idaho, is properly secured to his truck.
Charles H. Featherstone
A view of I-90 west of Vantage from the cab of Theron Wood's semi-tractor trailer with patches of freezing fog in the distance.
Theron Wood’s big rig being loaded with 32 one-ton totes of Malaysian palm fat in the parking lot of Global Agri Trade in Fife, Washington. Wood will haul the palm fat to Caldwell, Idaho, where it will be used as an ingredient in livestock feed.
Theron Wood, a truck driver with TL Trucking out of Pasco, prepares to clean the ice off the rearview mirrors of the 1999 Kenworth W900L semi-tractor trailer not far from the junction of S.R. 26 and I-90. Wood had to stop several times on the eastern side of Snoqualmie Pass to clean the ice off his mirrors. “Heated mirrors don’t seem to help,” he said.
Big rig driver Theron Wood uses a crowbar to tighten the straps securing a load of palm fat to the back of his big rig
FIFE — Theron Wood stands in a fenced-in parking lot at the end of a narrow cul-de-sac not far from the Port of Tacoma.
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