Truck driver Theron Schmalzried describes the delivery journey on ‘Fox & Friends.’
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Always gone
gotta stay on that story,
laughter
with about a month to go until
Christmas. America is coming
together.
Earlier this week a 55 foot
Christmas tree took resident on
the West lawn of the White
House.
Our next guest called the trip
an opportunity of a lifetime
that driver joins me now
Darren thanks so much for being
here.
So the opportunity of a
lifetime
tell me about the drive across
country with Capitol Hills,
Christmas, treement
laughter.
Oh, it was pretty nice
a lot of people on the side of
the roads, a lot of people on
overpasses waving flags.
You know just taking pictures
a lot of people driving by and
videotaping it on the way by,
thank God they was careful
but yeah. It was nice
a lot of enthusiasm and seemed
like a lot of people were happy
or you know a little bit of
something to maybe brought their
spirits up from a not real happy
year. Maybe
will yeah
happy moments for you,
you drove across the country. I
understand you stopped in ten
different communities.
How did you get picked to
deliver the tree to Washington,
D, dot c
laughter?
Senior driver for the company
I work for apex transportation.
I think that was it
pretty much accident free and I
think it was from the insurance
and the guy that owns apex
will. How was that you said
people on the side of the road
and overpasses? Tell me about
the communities you stopped in.
Did people come out and look at
the tree as you made your way
across the country,
yeah
well in Burlington Ill, tell
you about Burlington, we parked
at the fairgrounds and they
just was able to drive by
they wasnt. You know they was
doing the covid social,
distancing and stuff
theyd take pictures and some
of them got to get out and sign
a banner that was on the side of
the side of the semi and
everything
yeah it was. This was really
enthused
the kids they kind of just
lighted up
I mean they was. They was
amazing with that
they really enjoyed signing the
banner just kind of have their
name go across country with the
tree. You know,
will right,
youll have to forgive me. I
havent yet seen pictures of the
tree in d, dot c
youve got to tell me ive seen
the unveiling of the tree at
Rockefeller Center. It turned
out to be sad.
How did yalls come out
when the limbs came down? Did it
look better than the one in New
York
laughter?
Oh yeah, very much so
the forest service did a very,
very good job. I think, in my
opinion, with it
before we left, it was looking
really good
ing,
will thats good to know
Theron.
Thank you very much.
Our nation has come to
appreciate, I hope, truck
drivers more through the last.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-22.