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American Trucker Magazine (History)

In the mid 1980's, American Trucker Magazine (ATM) had a circulation of well over 100,000. The magazine was sold in more than 150 truck stops across the U.S. Many of the truck stops that sold ATM were concentrated in the West, Midwest, on across I-80 through Pennsylvania and New York state. The biggest concentration of participating Truck Stops were across the southern states from California east through Arizona, New Mexico, through Texas; Louisiana; Mississippi; Alabama; Tennessee; Georgia and Florida.

American Trucker began in 1977, as a Newsprint, loose page fold-over, called Mother Trucker News. The publishers were two friends, Steve Kreger and Bud Feldkamp who met while students at Loma Linda University in San Bernardino, California.