Glen G. Wall Oral History Interview

Oral history interview by Mary Heers with Glen G. Wall. Topics include: His employment as a lease operator/pumper for drilling oil wells; Oil field folklore and ghost stories; Fifteen years spent truck driving to haul crude oil; Truck driver camaraderie and radio chatter on the CB radio; Characteristics of a good truck driver; The comfort of sleeper cabs; Other work he has done related to oil wells; Different types of oil and its viscosity; His father's work as a Firefighter; Truck driving friends that were involved in serious or fatal truck accidents; Glen's interest and participation in Utah Public Radio; A love of writing that developed in fifth grade and his desire to write and publish a book.

Glen Wall works as a lease operator for an oil well run, for an oil company. For a period of time he was a haul truck driver, hauling loads of crude oil from the Uinta Basin to the Wasatch Front. He talks about folklore in his profession, including some ghost stories. He tells some interesting and entertaining stories of his time as a truck driver, and the truck driving culture. Mr. Glen Wall gives his plug and endorsement for giving to the fund drive of Utah Public Radio, talking about what the station has meant to him over the course of his life.