Monteagle & Marilyn by Bobbi McGee
Monteagle & Marilyn – The story of John & Marilyn McCormick You just never know who you will meet at a truck show or the story you will uncover while looking at trucks. This time I was in Henderson, Kentucky at the “Truckers Helping Hands,” Chrome & Light Benefit Truck Show. It was here in the scorching August sun that I met Owner Operator John McCormick and his wife Marilyn. It is not very often you run into a working pneumatic vacuum tanker at a truck show but there it was, his 2021 Kenworth W900L black metallic paint sparkling in the sweltering heat with a mean drop visor and stainless-steel deck plates. Peeking under the hood sat a Cummins X15 with an Eaton 18 speed topped off by 3:36 rears. Beneath all the chrome the custom black and gold looked remarkably familiar to me, asking him he smiled and said, “her name is Bandit,” which clicked with me immediately. John started officially trucking on his own at 21 years old after growing up watching his dad, ...