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The late Tom Love could see it before anyone else: A fleet of-yellow?!-tank trailers would become synonymous with his family's growing network of travel centers. Brent Bergevin, executive vice president of transportation, thought he was nuts. "I thought, 'Tom, that would be the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life,'" recalled Bergevin, who helped establish Gemini Motor Transport, the primary fuel hauler for Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, in 2001. "And now every one of our trucks is yellow-and we haul one of the most iconic tankers in America. Everybody knows who operates those vehicles. It just shows you how smart he was compared to me. "He was an unbelievable visionary." His foresight extended far beyond smart branding, and savvy business sense, fueling the lifelong passions for selfless service and worker well-being that made him a highly respected member of his community, and beloved leader for the Love's Family of Companies, which includes Musket Corporation, Trillium, and Speedco. "Nothing was more important than our employees," Bergevin said. "That's how he always saw it." If only he had lived to see Heil trophy No. 2. |