KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leading an organization of 17,000 truck fanatics from around the world is a pretty big job, and Aussie import Laurence Gration has been the guy calling the shots for the past four years as the executive director of the American Truck Historical Society (ATHS).
He’s a busy guy with a lot going on, but he hit the brakes recently long enough for “10 Questions” with Old Cars.
OLD CARS: How did a guy from Melbourne, Australia, wind up working for the American Truck Historical Society in Kansas City?
This type of business, non-profit business management, is what I’ve done for 40 years. About 1996 I went to a conference in Adelaide and met an American and got married, and after a couple of years, she said, ‘I’ve had enough of this, I’m going home.’ And now,
