The Big Idea: Ryan Lowell

Former dispatcher of 13 years takes a stab at writing novel about dark world of truckers

A former trucking dispatcher of 13 years has published a novel about the dark world of being a trucker.  Freight by Ryan Lowell was published on August 11th, 2026 and features a series of characters involved in an attempt at a freight heist along the Canadian border.  “I’ve been working in trucking — not as a driver, but as dispatcher and operations manager — for over a decade, so I’m very familiar with the industry, the characters and the dynam…

The Big Idea: Ryan Lowell

Miles of open road, a Big Gulp, and literal tons of steel. A trucker’s life ain’t an easy one, as author Ryan Lowell knows from years of experience as a dispatcher. This experience gave him the ideas and know-how he needed to write his newest novel, Freight. RYAN LOWELL: I spent much of the 2010’s dispatching truckers and writing fiction. Dispatching was not a career path I’d chosen — I’d studied economics in college — but the characters in truc…