On 9/11 anniversary, trucker remembers hauling WTC steel

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Sept. 11, 2020. FreightWaves has updated it and is republishing it for this year’s remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Truck driver Tim Philmon, along with millions of Americans, marked the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Monday by remembering the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

Philmon recalls exactly where he was on Sept. 11, 2001, when he heard the news that planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in...

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Where were you?

Truck driver hauls load of WTC steel back to its foundry in Coatesville, Pennsylvania.

Truck driver Tim Philmon, along with millions of Americans, marked the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Friday by remembering the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

Philmon says he recalls exactly where he was on Sept. 11, 2001, when he heard the news that planes had crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, another plane had hit the Pentagon, and a fourth aircraft had crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

“I was with several drivers, who were staged in...

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