KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (July 25, 2005) — The Tennessee company bent on outfitting every truckstop on the continent with onsite air conditioning, heating, and other utilities so trucks can shut down at no cost to drivers’ comfort, has enlisted the services of a Canadian owner/operator/songwriter/performer to sing the praises of their new technology.

GM Paterson, born on Manitoulin Island and raised around Ontario, started driving in 1992 and has spent quite a few of his 1.3 million accident-free miles writing road songs. Currently, he’s hauling a 53-ft curtain-side flatbed behind a splashy new Pete 379 for Tenn-Line out of Knoxville at the same time as he’s preparing his first CD — not to mention a string of concert appearances.

Idleaire, meantime, is in more than 600 truckstops across the States.

“We’ve just signed our 1000th fleet two weeks ago,” Idleaire’s manager of corporate communications John Doty says. The company has yet to install a system at a Canadian truckstop.

“I’m the real deal,” Paterson says. “There’re lots of guys who sing about trucks but never drove one. I have the credibility that comes from knowing what it’s like to be away from your kids; I know what it’s like to spend 27 days out of 30 away from home.”

He also knows how to get to Fergus, Ontario, where he performed this past weekend at the 20th annual Fergus Truck Show.