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Click! They're winners!
It's almost impossible to be an owner/operator today without a computer, but the cost can be an obstacle when you're starting out. Wendell and Kathleen were facing that challenge when they learned they had won a mobile office, including a laptop, by taking part in last year's Road King Drivers' Choice Awards survey sponsored by AT&T.
The Hipshers, of Indianapolis, had been preparing to become owner/operators last year when they saw the entry form in the May/June issue of Road King.
"He brought it home and when I saw it, I said, 'Let's fill it out and send it off,' since we didn't have a computer and had been talking about getting one," Kathleen says. "I have to tell you, we prayed about this."
Kathleen says she had had some experience with computers, but her husband was a beginner.
"He's becoming an expert though," she says. "We're using it a lot for things like getting directions, and we're getting our bookkeeping started on it, too."
The laptop came with AT&T WorldNet software and has a built-in fax/modem. The Hipshers, who became owner/operators last July, also won a cell phone.
Road King third Drivers' Choice Awards survey asked truckers to tell us what products and services they think are the best on the road. Wendell ranked Freightliner as the top truck and Detroit Diesel as his favorite engine.
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