Big Wheels Rollin' On -- Truck Dealer Goes Far, and Is Mapping Out a Future

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Richard Sweebe came to Memphis on a personal dare in 1982 as partial owner of the International Harvester truck dealership.

He kids no one when he says the $26,000 he could scrape together at 32 bought less than 5 percent of what was then a company factory store on Brooks Road.

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Big Wheels Rollin' On -- Truck Dealer Goes Far, and Is Mapping Out a Future

"I had never been to Memphis," said Sweebe, who then was an International district manager for Ohio, West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. "But I knew I wanted to be a dealer."

Twenty-five years later, paren...

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