Trucks Were Mike Pardo Sr.’s First Love
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Trucks were the main outlet for Mike’s mechanical prowess!
From the age of 10, Mike knew that he wanted to work, be around, and own large
heavy duty trucks. From there he went on to own his own repair shop where he
treated them as if they were the customers. So much so that drivers of the
trucks wouldn’t want to see him at the shop, they would leave the trucks in the
yard. The drivers were worried they would be told that they are mistreating the
trucks that they drive by not maintaing them.
Mike went on eventually to have his own under a trucking company he started.
Unfortunately, Mike was eventually involved in an accident that sent him down a
65 foot embankment that caused the beginning of the decline of his health.
This is the first interview I’ve done with a member of my own family. This is
also the first interview I’ve done posthumously, through my great aunt. It was
an honor to be able to sit down and get these stories documented, and I hope to
do more of these.
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Episode 30
Transcription
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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welcome to the Germans podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m
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interviewing my great aunt sue part of
senior or my great uncle michael part of
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senior posthumously who lives his dreams
through heavy duty trucks
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welcome to the show and Sue hello thank
you for coming on your welcome Joe let’s
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get started by giving some background
about yourself and your relationship
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with Uncle Mike and then go into how
Mike lived his life
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okay well I met akamai crowd 1985 I
worked for a trucking company and he had
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a repair business one of the customers
had a truck in the shop they couldn’t
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pay for it and another customer hide a
truck in the shop that she inherited
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from her mother so she needed a driver
on the truck so might put them together
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and they leased the truck on with the
trucking company I was working for and I
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used to dispatch him he would take care
of all the loads and stuff so we used to
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talk through the week then on fridays i
would collect paperwork and pay the
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drivers
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well one week he said he was going for
italian seafood and I said oh I like
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seafood
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he said well you want to come with us
and I was like I kind of felt like I’d
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invited myself so I said no no that’s
okay so the next week when I talked to
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him he asked me out and said look you
want to go get seafood nice the desk and
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that’s where it began
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we saw each other from october to $MONTH
january and then I moved in with them i
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guess it was August they had moved the
business from deptford down to the soul
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and when they moved to business
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the girl that was working in the office
apparently didn’t know a whole lot
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