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Sandra Boydston

Sandra Boydston
Las Vegas, Nevada
LandStar
Scholarship Won: Truck Writers Scholarship - $2,500

When I was in high school, I tested for the military.  I did not know until I signed the papers that my recruiter enlisted me as a Transport Operator.  It seems odd to me now that he recruited a small 5’2”, 85 pound girl to drive five tons and 22 ½  ton LVSs.  I had to place a backpack behind me to reach the pedals, but I passed every test the Marines threw at me and received every license they had except for the wrecker model of the LVSs.  I was certified for the single trailers and doubles.

But while I was away, my mother was home alone working a job she hated as a computer programmer.  Raising me alone, my mother and I had a rough relationship at times.  After watching me succeed in driving trucks, she decided to become a truck driver herself.  She left her job and moved into my extra bedroom while she went to trucking school.  Now I have settled into an office job and she is driving trucks.  Trucking has brought her happiness as she follows her dreams to travel the country.  I see her when she passes through and she gets to spend quality time with her grandson.