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Diversions

February 1, 2012

| by: Todd Dills

Profile: R.C. Barnes

Turn in the Road

Owner-operator R.C. Barnes parlays six decades of industry experience into new musical forays

RC. Barnes might have more experience behind the wheel of a trucking business than any other hauler on the highway today. “I’ve heard there’s two guys out here who are as old as I am,” says the 77-year-old Youngstown, Ohio, resident, “but nobody who’s been out here as long as I have.”

Having begun a putative trucking driving career at the tender age of 14, when he hitchhiked his way from custodial great-grandparents in Waynesboro, Penn., to find his mother in Holt, Ala., Barnes ultimately has more than six decades of driving under his belt.