Scott Spear's 1969 Kenworth has been in the trucking game as long as Spear has himself.Unless otherwise noted, all photos courtesy of Scott Spear
Scott Spear's trucking and transportation career began in 1969, the same year Kenworth built the W900A he's dutifully restoring in the suburbs of Dallas, and in that fateful period where America became the world power we know it as today.
From being one of the engines behind the U.S.' dominance in the Space Race, to celebrating the Statue of Liberty's facelift in the 1980s, Spear has seen some of the country's pivotal moments from the driver's seat. He's helped navigate some of its biggest environmental crises as an environmental engineer back when this country didn't take a driver's knowledge of things for granted.
Spear, a native of Panorama City, California, started driving at just 15 years old for his family business and eventually hauled heavy equipment to build dams in central California, before even graduating high school.
By the age of 19, he was hauling cross-country for a local small fleet, an impossibility today. In fact, much of Spear's life story wouldn't be possible today, but through his 50-plus years as an operator and in other roles in trucking, he's helped expand on the scope of possibility in this country.
"Loading it on trucks took two weeks ... It only took 30 minutes to blow it all up."
--Scott Spear, on his 1986 haul of fireworks to NYC for the Statue of Liberty facelift's unveiling
"I’ve been in pretty much every niche there is with the exception of cars and cattle," said Spear. "I did frozen food and produce then I got into hauling for Stayco Corporation doing hydromulching."
