need not apply.
初めまして。僕は18年間が日本に住んだ。弁護士として働きました。大学院も東京に留学しました。大阪にも長くに住んだ。弁護士の前は欧州で旅行会社に勤めました。オーストリアでスキーガイドとして働いて、イギリスとギリシアも水上スキー教えました。スパインで農業の移民労働者として、スウェーデンに工場に働きました。
今トラクタートレーラーの全米運転手の仕事をしています。会社が乗客を許せいます。僕は日本語を練習したい。大阪弁ができれば。同時に日本人を米国の放浪の旅を紹介します。間違えないで、私が仕事中忙しいので。観光事業の機会はあまりないんですよ。客の興味があれば、客さんが一人で前か後で自分の環境すれば良いかもしれませんが。たまに、配達場を待ち時間が長いんですよ。何時間がかかります。倉庫の駐車場で待つのは、トラクターの中には本読んで、パスコン遊んでいるがつまらないかもしれません。その時、客さんがライドシェアでどこか行けるけれど。米国の高速道路を走る時は信じられない方どうきれいですよ。
トラクターの中に二段ベッドが冷蔵庫もあります。客さんははしご登るのは面倒くさいかもしれません。トラック停留所ででシャワーをします。休憩所にも駐車場で寝ます。アメリカの休憩所のトイレは汚いんですよ。けれど、もしか日本それともアメリカの大型の運転手になりたい方が興味あれば、又は珍しい冒険を欲しい、最高の経験です。僕は良く運転手の仕事を紹介出来る。私日本で宮城県石巻市女子高校と横浜国立大学で学生を教えました。アメリカと欧州もスポーツも教えました。私がうまく案内出来ると思いますけれど。運転学校、学生ローン、仕事募集などの説明が旅に出ながら、良く説明できます。例えば、もし内の会社で仕事を貰えると、会社が運転学校の学生ローンを支払いしてくれます。
待ち合わせは、会社の都合が良いとスケジュールを合わせる。終わり時は空港、駅など、安全場所のみを落ちて下さい。計画通りお願い致します。会社も大変安全第一の心配です。
今考えるのは毎日＄20です。自分が食事代、シャワー、などの責任です。出来るだけ、スーパーに買い物します。
とても大事な事。マリジュアナ、お酒はトラクターの中には絶対ダメですよ。客さんはお酒を外でちょっと飲むは大丈夫ですが、マリジュアナは全然ダメ、どこえも。この職業は連邦の管理ので、非常にご注意して下さい。
不明の書き方あれば、聞いてください。興味あればお返事して下さい。なんでも質問あれば、ご遠慮なく。よろしくお願い致します。
Steven McIntire Allen
499 E Vermontville Highway
Potterville Michigan 48876
United States of America
+1 (860) 234.9705
mcintire@me.com
July 22, 2026
Aska Driving College
飛鳥ドライビングカレッジ川崎
〒210-0025 神奈川県川崎市川崎区下並木97番地
k.yamato@aska-web.co.jp
re Japanese ‘truck stay’
Dear M. Yamato,
I appreciate you speaking with me on the phone. Please relay my appreciation to M. Tanaka. I apologise for the sudden intrusion. I very much enjoyed learning and obtaining my O class license from your school more than two decades ago.
Before law school I worked in the tourism industry as a ski guide in St. Anton, Austria, a valet at a hotel at the ski resort of Alta, Utah, a waterski instructor at a beach resort in Skiathos, Greece, and as an instructor at a professional competition waterski school for multiple World Champion Slalom silver medalist John Battleday in the UK. I lived in Japan 17 years where I practiced law in Tokyo for Nishimura Asahi, and in Osaka for an international boutique firm. I am licensed to practice law by the states of California and New York.
As I’ve been driving around the Western United States, I’ve thought how much I would appreciate the opportunity to repay the many kindnesses the Japanese bestowed on me when I lived in Ishinomaki, Tokyo, Osaka, and Nozawa Onsen. Also, I would enjoy a Japanese passenger who is willing to speak Japanese with me. And, as you certainly must have realised from our phone conversation, I need Japanese practice!
I recently obtained my Michigan Commercial Driver License (CDL). My employer permits me to have riders under the condition that I notify my employer of the rider well in advance of the rider joining me in my cab. I have been wondering how I might find a suitable Japanese rider willing to practice Japanese with me while I drive, and together we might enjoy the incredible natural beauty of America.
As I mentioned on the phone, the homestay industry is a very well developed market in both directions, and on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Many Japanese parents are willing to pay generously to have their children placed in safe, reliable homes to learn about America and practice English. I am thinking that there are a substantial number of Japanese who would be interested in a mobile homestay, i.e. placing a Japanese guest with an American truck driver, and give the guest a real, authentic American tour of the highways and byways that America has to offer. Moreover, given Aska Driving College’s business experience, we could also pitch this service as a way for Japanese people interested in learning more about getting a CDL in America.
Japan is enjoying unprecedented popularity around the globe, especially in America. I suspect I could find many of my fellow truckers, many of them first generation immigrants themselves, interested in hosting a Japanese guest. Also, Japan and the Japanese are famous for safety. This could be an opportunity to enable Japanese to teach Americans to raise American trucking safety standards.
Clearly, my thoughts are in the exploratory stages. I am suggesting Aska send me a person to ride with me for a brief period of time. That person must be at least 21 years old. The minimum age to obtain a CDL is 21.
I would coordinate with my employer to make arrangements to collect the guest at a location agreed upon well in advance, such as an airport. My employer is headquartered in Salem, Oregon and has about 1000 drivers, so load availability, delivery locations, etc. are fairly flexible. My employer simply asks that when the guest wishes to leave my care, the guest depart my truck only at a safe, convenient location, e.g. airport, train or bus station, rental car agency.
I can envision many possible benefits of introducing Japanese to American trucking. If we could create a steady stream of Japanese who obtained their CDL, I think we could revolutionize the American trucking system. If we start with a nucleus of Japanese, interested in internationalizing the logistics industry, this could also be a means to export Japanese safety standards around the world.
Moreover, any Japanese interested in the global logistics industry would be well informed about the American logistics industry after a visit such as I am suggesting. As I mentioned on the phone, I studied in a semester abroad program in Tokyo when I was in graduate school to become an attorney. A trucking homestay could be a very hands on way to train for a career in logistics, whether as a driver or administrator, and have an opportunity to improve one’s English. Japanese college graduates, experienced commercial truck drivers, and English students could see America, gain a lifelong friendship with an American trucker, and learn more about America while watching stunning landscapes.
Japan would be providing a great service to America. Moreover, this could be a financial benefit for Aska, myself and my employer. If Japanese ‘truck stay’ guests decide they want to get a CDL, student loans are available to finance their schooling in America. I know of one struggling truck driving school that might be interested in cooperation with Aska to train Japanese drivers. Aska might also provide students with training and practice in Japan. If, after obtaining a CDL, drivers apply to and are accepted by my employer, I would receive a bonus for introducing the employee candidate. Also, my employer would reimburse the cost of the driver schooling by either repaying the loan, or in payments to the new driver if they hadn’t borrowed tuition expenses.
I understand that Aska Driving College recently closed one of its locations. Perhaps the personnel who were displaced by that closing might be interested in investigating how we could develop a service which provides Japanese citizens with an opportunity to travel the United States, and potentially become a commercial truck driver while riding in a tractor trailer cab.
I apologise for writing in English. I could translate this, however I suspect that translation software might be more reliable. If the translation software causes any confusion, please ask me to clarify. Also, please don’t hesitate to ask me any questions.
お手数ですが、よろしくお願い致します。
Warmest,
S. McIntire Allen
