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813-423-2965 Office 813-400-8585
Cell While
contemplating what
to write about myself, I cannot help think how diverse and resilient people are. What we overcome. I am one of those overcomers.
As I write, I have now been in bu siness
for 23 years and in the trucking industry for 35 years. It did not come easy, however. As a matter of fact, I authored a book
about it. Here's
more about me and the book...'Michael Kennon is the CEO and President of Kennon Transport, LLC, a successful trucking business
he runs with his wife, Sue. Before owning his own
company, Mike was a runaway and was virtually homeless for most of his childhood and young adulthood. To survive on the
road, Mike drove trucks, sold encyclopedias, hustled pool, was a baker, ski instructor,
sous chef, drug dealer just to name a few. Drugs and other dependencies took over Mike's life to the point that he could
not accept help when it was offered, nor could he stop running away from a past that haunted him. While now blessed with
what he has achieved in his life and in his personal and family relationships, things were much different at one time. "Memoirs
of a Runaway: A Story of Hope" is a tale of survival and spirituality. Isolation and reconnection. Most of all, it is
a hand reaching out to those who travel down the same troubled path; a story of hope.' Read more and order the book at http://www.memoirsofarunaway.com And, please become a fan of helping runaways on my Facebook
site http://www.facebook.com/memoirsofarunaway  I
was born in Carbondale, IL on August 13th, 1961. My father died when I was 10 and mom remarried a man 2 years later that was
mentally and physically abusive and I started running away. By age 17, I had driven over 250,000 miles in a semi alone without
even having a drivers license. By 20, and 7 high schools later, I had a certificate for business math and communication and
had gone to 3 colleges. I'd
like to say that's the end of the story and lived happily ever after, but that could not be further from the truth. Today,
and for the last several years, however, I have been very happily married and running Kennon Transport with my wife, Sue,
dispatching from a million dollars to multi-million dollars in freight almost every year. I'm also concentrating on helping runaways, promoting 'Memoirs of a Runaway' and am a Golden Tee vendor (more links to networking sites below). Mike
Kennon.
Click on the newspaper clipping for a featured article about my book and click here for reviews.
More
projects and networking sites after Blogs below. For additional Blogs, click on the dates.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Prime Waterfront Lot For Sale
2:52 pm est
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Trucking and Our Economy
I recently published an article on helium.com (while you're there -- type mike kennon in the search area for other articles). This article deals with the very serious issue of companies and individuals that are offering freight out for less than the costs to cover
the operation of a truck and would not even pay minimum wage to the driver. Watch 'Economy: Sectors to Watch' a segment done by Good Morning America where they talk about 'low-balling' as mentioned
in my article.) TheTrucker.com did an interview (read more below) and then asked if they could use this article as well.
4:24 pm est
Monday, January 12, 2009
Interview with TheTrucker.com
Last Friday I was interviewed for an article which should
come out February 1st, 2009 in TheTrucker.com about my new book 'Memoirs of a Runaway'. The Assistant Editor mentioned she just got done doing a series on prostitution at truck stops and many of the the young women are runaways. She went on to say that they had been working with
law enforcement who informed her that the runaway situation has now reached an 'epidemic proportion'.
A boy was throwing starfish back into the ocean and a man walked up to him and said 'you know it wont
matter if you throw them back cause there will be hundreds more that wash up again tomorrow', and the boy continued
to throw another one and turned to him and said 'it mattered to that one'.
Please click on the link
to a printable 'Runaway Resource Guide' to help provide awareness. It will only be with the help of others that we can make a difference.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Happy New Year !!
Hope you have a safe, happy, healthy,
prosperous New Year !!
11:18 am est
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 I started playing Golden
Tee in 1998. When we moved to Charleston, SC, in 2002, I started playing with a group of about 7 to 12 guys a couple times
a week. Then the economy went south and my wife said 'we can't afford your habit any longer...unless we buy one'. The rest
was history and I'm now a Golden Tee vendor (and still play). THE GAME HAS BEEN SOLD: READ MORE IN BLOGS
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