The world’s oldest truck driver is still on the move at 90, and he has no plans to retire.
Doyle Archer has been working for over 60 years, covering over five million miles.
And despite spotting many impressive landmarks, it’s the countryside he most enjoys watching out of the window, reports What’s The Jam.
“I do not plan to retire any time soon,” he said.
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“As long as my health holds, I will keep driving. I do not have the word ‘retire’ in my vocabulary.”
Doyle grew up on his family’s farm in Kansas and went on to earn a degree in agriculture.
He became a partner in a lumber and grain company before getting into the trucking industry in 1961.
Asthma forced him to leave the farm and grain trucking business behind, but he stuck with hauling.
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He said: “Anything you can haul in a truck, I have hauled it.”
And he really means anything, as he’s transported everything from livestock to canned goods, and furniture to petroleum, across the country.
Now, he’s even been certified as a “Million Mile Safe Driver” after making it to one million miles without a single incident under his belt.
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Doyle has driven for Coomes Inc. in Kansas, US, for the past 20 years, even hitting the world-famous Route 66, which takes you 2,000 miles to Los Angeles from Chicago.
He has even been a part of history along the way, including driving on the first eight-mile section of the Eisenhower Interstate System in Kansas shortly after it was built.
Doyle said: “My favourite views I’ve been able to witness are the mountain views, scenic prairies, and the timbered forest of this great country.
“I’ve been given the opportunity to see the Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center of Houston, TX.
“Many decks and harbours of ports in many states dealing with international shipping.
“I have witnessed many sunrises and sunsets from behind the windshield.
“Deserts of the southwest, historic settlements, the bright lights of Las Vegas and the western lifestyle of the Cheyenne rodeo, the music of Nashville, TN, and the great steel mills of Chicago.
“But my favourite will always be the wheat fields of the High Plains in June and July.”
If you couldn’t admire him any more, he’s also been married to childhood sweetheart Lois for 70 years.
He has nine children, 25 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
In his spare time, Doyle takes a big interest in antique cars and he loves watching John Wayne movies.
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