Years later, the opportunity came along to get into the diesel engine side of the trucking industry and I was ready. I also did some dispatching in those early days, and in the evenings I had a race car shop called Mallinson Performance (I built and raced Corvettes). I got involved with the traffic management side of trucking when I was 19 years old.
But it wasn’t always easy – especially in those early days. Today, my company (Pittsburgh Power Inc.) is a well-respected business and I am very proud of that fact. Eventually, the industry caught up with me and began to embrace my ideas about fuel efficiency and performance in diesel engines.
For many years, in the early part of my career, I was labeled as a “black sheep” in the trucking industry because many of my ideas were a bit ahead of their time.
