A web site has to have personality so I thought I set this About page up as a resume to give the people I'm going to work with & for my life & work experience to help in their decision as to wether or not they would work with me. Never know, they might just throw stones at me. I have four older brothers, two older sisters, & I'm married so I'm used to the abuse. Looking back at all the things I've done I guess it's only fitting I try freight brokerage.

Greyghost Freight Brokerage began as Greyghost Transport in Jan. 2006. I started Greyghost as an owner operater hauling utility trailers & automobiles in the Northwest US. I have ten years experience as a truck driver in the mid & Northwest US. While Greyghost Transport was a Hot Shot operation I started driving big rigs while employed with the State of Nebraska throught the University as a truck driver,/mechanic with the Dept. of Forestry.

I worked at Dari Gold in Boise, ID. for four years driving truck, delivering milk to major grocery outlets before I started Greyghost Transport. WINCO, Albertsons, Ridleys, & Pauls to name a few. I planned to run this one ton for a year & decide at that point if I would stay in the business.

While at Dari Gold I drove Freightlines, 1999 & 2006 pulling anything from tankers, doubles, 53 ft tri axle trailers with drop axles legal to 98,500 K. 

The picture below is of a 2000 Peterbilt I was going to buy after that year in business as a Hot Shot but decided to get into the freigh brokerage business instead. Depending on the economy & fuel prices, that decision is still suspect. I had driven a 1986 Peterbilt earlier in my carrier & was looking forward to running this one but life sometimes takes another path.

While Employed with the Forestry Dept. I drove a 1983 Mack cabover & 1994 Volvo pulling lowboy trailers, hauling military 6x6 trucks we picked up at military bases., federal excess property. I would go to Fort Dodge, Iowa & Fort Riley, Kansas to pick up equipment. We also did any work necessary to make this equipment mechanically ready for rural fire districts to use in fighting grass fires throughout Nebraska.  This included anything from changing motors, transmissions, & transfer cases to electrical & brake repair.

Before working at the NE Dept. of Forestry I worked in landscping for a couple years. Hard work, lomg hours, & didn't need a membership at the gym. Landscaping was harder work than construction. Well I was 40 verses 19 when I worked constuction so I don't know how much harder the work was. Maybe it was just harder to do the work. I did landscaping for just under two years so I had year round experience, greenhouse,  landscape design, planting trees & shrubs, & off season maintenance.

Before landscaping I worked in a plastic molding company as a night shift supervisor/maintenance tech in the production of 3&1/2 in floppy disk & cassette tapes.  Did that for about two years before a layoff due to government allowing imports for less than we could produce. Free trade, gotta love it.

Before the plastic molding gig I worked for Cushman Motors in Lincoln, NE. I'm sure many people over the age of 50 have heard of Cushman scooters, the Eagle. Well they don't make them anymore & they aren't in Lincoln, NE either. Cushman moved to one of the Carolinas I believe but I was laid off long before they moved. I did assembly work, ran the dyno testing finished product. Turf equipment & trucksters is what they made when I was there. All the equipment the golf industry has a high demand for. I worked at Cushman for five years.

They built other machines used in manufacturing & police work. Meter maids drive their blue & white trucksters, hanging tickets on your car when you don't feed the meter.  Electric scooters used in factories & one ton flatbeds you see hauling injured football players off the field.

Before Cushman I worked in the auto repair business, a mechanic working in new car dealerships for about eight years. I graduated from Southeast Community College with an Associates of Applied Science degree in Auto Tech. with a 3.73 GPA or something like that. I was ASE certified in Engine Repair, Manual Transmission & Rear Axle, Front End, Brakes, Electrical Systems, Heating & AC, & Engine Performance from 1982 through 1987. I was later certiied through GM Motor corporation in Specialized Electronics & GM Computer Command Control Electronic Engine & Emmision Control Systems.

I also worked at VW when I first got out of school & went to several Porche Audi schools: AC, Diesel Fuel Injection, & CIS Fuel Injection. We worked on Audi, VW, Subaru, & whatever came through the door. Didn't get much exotic atuff.

It was interesting but the grease under my nails, grubby, dirty work got a little old. Was never any health insurance & work was never steady, too busy when working & nothing to do when school started, state fair came to town,  or people had other expenses. Had to buy tools, tools, & more tools & it wasn't cheap. Funny thing is, I can't stand to change my own oil anymore.

People always complained about the price of fixing their car as if I sold it to them. Looking back at the prices they paid compared to shop prices today, they were getting a good deal & I was working cheap.

I worked contruction, pouring concrete, roofing, building houses, & remodeling for about three or four years also. Jack of all trades I guess. In the winter I would get factory work, welding or assembly. I worked for an outfit called soil movers in Columbus, NE.,  welding, one winter.

I went to work for Lindsay Manufacturing just out of high school, a leading irrigation manufacturer. I started in assembly & moved on to running forklifts & then ran an overhead crane, unloading semis that brought steel in for fabrication. I would unload forty ft bundles of angle iron & other long steel such as rod.  I did wire welding, first on heavy frame & then on to pipeline.

I graducated from High School, well got our of High School in the middle of my senior year with all my credits & went to work in the factory. I was only seventeen & told a small lie to get the job, 18 was the age requirement. Looking back it may have been a mistake as I was laid off a few months later & missed the fun my classmates had skipping school. I guess college wasn't really an option as my folks didn't have the money & dad said, "I guess you'll have to work to make a living, just like I did."

I worked all through high school doing construction & working on farms. It was a small farm community so it was the norm, working for a living instead of going to college. Used to milk cows & work with those damn hogs too. It always amazed me that government bought the family farmers out of dairy with our tax $ because there was too much milk & then the 30,000 cow dairy operations poped up. How much is a gallon of milk?

I will be updating this page with more information about myself, pictures if I can locate them, education, & work experience. I hope this gives everyone a sense of who I am, what I've done in my life to quailfy me to arrange the transportation of your product as well as carriers with confidence in my ability to judge a fair price on their behalf.