![]() ![]() Activity, meanwhile, among well operators was increasing. His move to oil-services hauling would prove prescient, as he inherited some of the business after the friend got out and McGee obtained authority in 2010. ![]() Some of the wells his company still services today "were produced in the 1940s and '50s." "I’ve lived my whole life in the middle of this gas field and never realized this was going on until we started doing it," he said. The area around Ruston where McGee lives (amid rolling hills and homes and farms and everything else) is peppered with oil and gas wells. The company he was doing much of that work for kept them on a pretty tight quota, and McGee, casting about for new business in the early part of this century, decided to lease to a friend who was doing what JMT does today, "hauling water in the oilfield," he said. Pictured on the wall of McGee's office today is this picture from his early days hauling logs out of the area around Ruston, Louisiana. ![]() He worked with his brother for four years, then stuck with logging through much of the 1990s. He'd been delivering ice cream for the Schwan's company "to residents and small stories," he said, when the brother-in-law wanted him to "haul the wood he was cutting." McGee bought his first truck, a 1980s-era R Model Mack, in 1991. McGee got his start hauling logs after marrying into a family of loggers. Ice cream delivery to log hauling and beyond He remembers telling Lucas "before I die, I want to have a piece of concrete and a roof over my head to work on these trucks." It's been a long road there, but Small Fleet Champ John McGee has most certainly arrived. The entry period is open for fleets of 3-30 trucks - find more information via this link."I had a barn at the house," he said, with a circle driveway that allowed enough space to bring in a tractor and "back in, a little shop inside the barn," though he did most "work on the trucks in the gravel driveway, battling the fire ants and the red mud."īack then, his son Lucas, now in his 20s, "worked for me in the afternoon and during the summers," McGee said. Enter Overdrive's 2023 Small Fleet Championship to put your fleet in the running for this year's award. ![]()
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