Truck driver’s daughters want more time with dad

Brad Wood enjoys spending time at the dog park with his daughters, Hannah and Amanda.

“I’ve been driving a truck since 1997. When I was running chemicals it was out, unload and come right back. Now I haul crude oil in the Texas Panhandle and western Oklahoma, and I’m usually gone two to three weeks at a time. That’s the toughest part. It provides for our family, but I’m at the point now where I don’t like being away from home.”

What do you miss most when your dad is on the road?
(Left) “I can’t hug him and say goodnight.”
(Right) “When I get a bad grade on my spelling test and he’s home, he always tells me, ‘You’ll get it next time.’”

— Brad Wood with Hannah and Amanda