KNOXVILLE, Tenn. − Texan Michael Dorsey has spent a career crisscrossing the nation as a long-haul truck driver and, like many in his line of work, the places don’t register much anymore.
So it was Friday, in Erwin, Tennessee, just another stop in a seemingly unending row of them. Dorsey, 56, was there to pick up a load of yellow flexible gas piping and haul it to Arizona over the weekend.
He never made it out of the parking lot. And before the morning was over, the truck driver from Humble, Texas, became a hero …