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Lasting legacy Events of 9/11 altered many truckers' lives and prompted numerous changes in the trucking industry TODD DILLS AND MAX KVIDERA Where were you on 9/11? Florida-based owner-operator Tim Philmon was sitting in his 2001 Mack Vision at a shipper near the Miami air- port. He and several other drivers he knew were waiting to load when they heard the first plane had flown into the World Trade Center's North Tower that morning. "One of the guys had a TV in his truck," Philmon says, "and we were watching, trying to figure out what was going on," when the second plane flew into the South Tower. Soon, Philmon noticed a dearth of 20 TRUCKERS NEWS SEPTEMBER 2011 planes in the sky. In Dallas, then-Prime-leased owner-operator Mike Crawford noticed the empty skies, too, during a pick- up of shingles. "The planes were going over to Love Field in Dallas and, all of a sudden, there were no planes. I got loaded and got out of there and was going to stop in Ana, Texas, at the Love's to get some fuel." Twenty miles from the stop, Crawford received a call from his wife, who was in tears. "She wanted to know where I was, what I was doing. 'Be careful,