Robert M. Braswell is a man of many talents.
He's a capable shade tree mechanic and an award-winning journalist. He at one point pursued a career as a physician. As Executive Director of ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC), and a TMC staff member for nearly 30 years, his fingerprints are on the organization in places too numerous to count.
A self-described tinkerer, Braswell grew up in southern Maryland, spending a lot of time on construction sites alongside his father, a marble and tile tradesman.
"What you could do back then, you could never get away with today," he said, "but I was going with my father on job sites when I was as young as four or five years old, carrying tile boxes back and forth and observing everything."
It was on construction sites where Braswell first recalls being exposed to a commercial truck – the multi-wheeled machine that would lord over much of the rest of his life.
