His passion for trucks and the people who devote their lives to the difficult nomadic lifestyle, led him on a six year journey in pursuit of financing and producing an hour long documentary that would chronicle long haul truckers intense feeling for the work they do. The Road are Byron Burgess, a young company driver, Billy Jones, lead driver and transportation coordinator for country music star Alan Jackson, and owner operator Ron Kelsey, who has put over 2.5 million miles on his show winning 1979 Peterbilt. Morgan's documentary is not a nuts and bolts or historic work. Rather it concentrates on drawing the viewer into the trucking life from a driver's point of view and works to convey a sense of what drivers feel about what they do. Drivers are fiercely independent and proud of what they see as important work, despite being treated less than well by shippers and receivers, the media, and often even by the companies they work for.
Trucking is one of the most vital links in our economy.
Drivers are the glue that binds the entire industry, but in general they are last on the list when it comes to problems being solved or addressed. This show was my way of giving something back. A wife of a driver screened the show and wrote me saying, 'I never really understood trucking's pull on my husband. That for me, is what this program is all about, why I did it, and what I want the public to see. AND OR Case Insensitive Sensitive Click here to browse through the headlines of prior issues.