Pekala left his home in Poland back in 1983. He was 22 year old medical student. Even back then he loved cars and motorcycles.
Things were really bad in Poland at that time, so he had the choice to move to Canada, South Africa, Australia or the United States. He left and migrated to the United States, where he decided to stay forever. Therefore, in 1985, he immigrated with his wife to Massachusetts, with the help of a Polish church.
He did not have any trucking experience back then. So, it did not even occurred to him to drive a truck. Therefore, he tried several different jobs in order to make a living. At the time, his wife went to school, whereas he was switching jobs, until one day he heard that driving was very well paid.
During the week he was working on construction sites and during the weekends he would go to the driver training school. In 1986, a year after he came in the United States, he got his commercial license. Firstly, he started with hauling gasoline for a small operator in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
