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"We've always been a team opera-
tion, and I've wanted to help him make
his dreams come true," she says.
Vickie's been a part of his dreams for
more than 20 years, from the start of
her husband's trucking career.
Sampson grew up in Charleston,
W.Va. At age 22, working in a ware-
house, his asthma gave him trouble
during the winter, so his employer let him
switch to loading and driving a company
truck. When the company closed its West
Virginia branch and moved back to its
Ohio offi ce seven months later, Sampson
moved to Florida to enroll in driving
school and then drive over the road.
There he met Vickie, who was an
offi ce manager at a credit reporting
agency.
"She rode with me on several trips
and liked the feel of trucking," Sampson
recalls. Soon after, they married, and
in 1991 moved back to his home state.
He taught her to drive and they began
driving team.
Since then, they've hauled chemicals
in West Virginia and owned a seven-
truck fl eet during a fi ve-year stint in
Missouri. Now, based in Rhome, Texas,
they drive OTR for Landstar Ranger.
"With the freight that we haul, we
have a lot of downtime, so we de-
cided to get something that has all the
comforts of home," Sampson says of
their 2014 Volvo, which has a 156-inch
custom sleeper
The additional weight doesn't hurt
their operation because their freight is
lightweight, and they save costs on hotel
rooms and restaurants, he says. They
average about 6.8 miles per gallon, run-
ning 62 to 63 miles per hour.
Crosson-Cornelius says the Sampsons
go above and beyond on all their hauls.
"They're really good on the shipper
and receiver end and dealing with the
customers and the other complications
that come up," she says. "They do a re-
ally good job of keeping up with things
going on in our offi ce and marketing
themselves, and on a personal level,
they're just such good people that they
stand out."
Keith and Vickie
Sampson's 156-
inch custom
sleeper has a full
bathroom, show-
er, full kitchen,
dinette, queen-
sized bed and a
32-inch flat-panel
television with
satellite cable.
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