Stephen Fagg

Stephen Fagg was a personal trainer and bodybuilder living paycheck to paycheck when a best friend's paychecks pulled him into trucking in 2018. He got his permit solo, was the last driver Hersbach took on a permit, trained eight weeks under that friend, and passed his CDL first try. He explains grinding a lease-purchase to bank about $28,000 in eleven months, putting $14,500 down on the 2020 Volvo VNL860 he still runs and paid off last year, running a year under a friend's authority on an 80/20 split before jumping to his own, and switching off refrigerated freight to dry van for the sleep and the sanity. He gets into surviving the 2023 rate crash by running loads nobody wanted into New York City, why he calls the five boroughs his playground and backing his favorite thing in trucking, and how a blind-side Bronx dock back turned into viral reels (one at 6.3 million views, another at 9.4 million) after his accounts kept getting shut down over the Big Fagg Trucking name. He found Truck Parking Club looking for monthly parking near Midlothian, Texas, has since used it from Minneapolis to Seattle, and wants to buy a lot of his own someday. His advice for anyone eyeing a CDL: if you have a family, run local, and whatever you do, watch your health.