It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strain Champs.

Do you remember the first time you felt the call of the road?

I was at Colby College, which is one of these iv-covered liberal arts schools.

Long-haul trucker, Finn Murphy.

My parents and I were walking down this leafy walkway.

Somebody's playing guitar under a tree and there's a couple kids throwing a frisbee and I said,

I'm not coming back here. I'm going to sign up with North American van lines and I'm going to become a driver.

My father, who had never gone to college,

and that was the one thing he didn't accomplish in his life,

he said, you've done three years here, just one more year.

Why don't you just come back and finish?

And I said, because I'm afraid it's going to finish me off first.

When we got home, he actually gave me a bill for three years tuition, which he expected me to pay back.

I looked at it and I was shocked. I couldn't believe that he was doing this.

And I flung it back at him, and I cursed at him.

And he looked at me and he said said don't use that language in my house

and I said I'm not going to use anything in your house and I picked up my duffel bag walked out of the house

and went down the street to where my truck was parked it was to be my first day as a truck driver.

And my parents and I didn't speak for two years.

Everybody loves the road, but some people love it more than others.

Finn Murphy found his career and his calling on America's highways.

He's the author of The Long Hall, a trucker's Tales of Life on the Road.

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