Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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42 | Overdrive | August 2016 TRUCKER TALENT SEARCH Jason Lee Wilson wrote his first song when he was 5 and picked up the guitar at 13, but he didn't perform an original composition for anyone until he was 18. "It was good affirma- tion, but I don't know if it contributed to more writing," he says. "My writing seems to come from inspiration instead of a manufactured process." Wilson, 37, got into truck- ing about six years ago. As a company driver, he hauls aggregates on local runs for MDM Transport and does bimonthly or monthly hauls for Perfect Tenn Transporta- tion. He lives in Maryville, Tennessee, with his wife, Aleksandra, and dog, Bou- dreaux. "I found him on the road about nine years ago when he was a pup," he says. Boudreaux feels drawn to the road, it turns out: "He tried to drive my old pickup once. [It was freshly painted at the time.] He knocked it out of gear, and it rolled right into my buddy's Autocar wrecker. He's had a revoked license ever since." With his downtime, Wilson is always "trapped in the gears," he says. "If I'm not driving or playing music, I'm doing mechanical or cosmetic restoration on old vehicles," some of them for his friends. He's currently working on a 1965 Ford F100 4x4 with a 3-cylinder Series-53 Detroit Diesel engine, plus a 1956 Chevrolet 4400 with a 6.2L diesel engine. Jason Lee Wilson Song he submitted: "From Lynchburg to Nashville" About the song: "I think it's a song a lot of truck drivers can relate to. … You've got no choice but to keep on keepin' on, no matter how tough the laws are, how little respect you get from family, friends or the people you share the road with, or what you may lose along the way." MRL MyRiteLoad_OVD0816_PG.indd 1 7/21/16 9:46 AM