Still Truckin’

  • Gene Bollinger poses with one of his trucks during the 1970s. Bollinger Trucking is celebrating 70 years of service this weekend.
    Gene Bollinger poses with one of his trucks during the 1970s. Bollinger Trucking is celebrating 70 years of service this weekend.
  • Wade and Tim Bollinger are inviting the public to an open house this Saturday at the Bollinger Trucking shop to celebrate 70 years of service . Over the years, Bollinger trucks have delivered loads to 48 of the 50 states in the U.S. Photo by Jon Flatland
    Wade and Tim Bollinger are inviting the public to an open house this Saturday at the Bollinger Trucking shop to celebrate 70 years of service . Over the years, Bollinger trucks have delivered loads to 48 of the 50 states in the U.S. Photo by Jon Flatland
Gene Bollinger was an entrepreneurial- thinker with a do-it-til-itsdone work ethic, but he had no way of knowing when he and his new bride, Mardella, settled near Timber Lake in the early 1950s that the company they would start would still be in operation today - nearly 70 years later. Bollinger Trucking will celebrate 70 years of service with an open house on Saturday, Sept. 16, beginning at 4…

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