Working: Livermore trucker keeps rolling with the paper industry

SUN JOURNAL • May 10, 2020

As a logger and then a trucker, Darrell Tibbetts has had a front-row view of the paper industry. “I use to haul out of Bucksport and Madison, I used to haul out of Otis, but they all closed,” said Tibbetts, 51. Even at those still making paper, he said, “every mill changes a little bit every year — one picks up and one goes lower.” When Pixelle Specialty Solutions made the call last month to restart the Jay mill after a massive explosion using trucked-in pulp to make paper, Tibbetts got to work. “I bought two (three-axle tractor-trailers) within 24 hours,” he said, and he has built two more since.