The CyberTrucker Story

Necessity is the mother of invention. In 2002, I was a trucker driver who got hurt on the job. I was out of work for over two years. I lost my home, my cars and my credit score tanked. Even my wife split for greener pastures.

The doctors told me to expect to be confined to a wheel chair for the rest of my life. So during my recovery period I trained for a second career as a computer technicain. Fortunately, two years later, I found a very good doctor. He was able to perform a high risk surgery that improved my condition well enough for me to drive a truck again.

At that point, armed with my computer training and over a million miles of truck driving experience, I realized the impact a computer could have on the solitary lifestyle of a long distance truck driver. I began emailing every night, using GPS on my laptop all day, creating electronic logbooks, finding shorter routes, taking and editing pictures of my trips across the United States.

My truck was my mobile office and now the computer was a vital part of that office. However, my computer training had taught me about what goes on inside of a computer. I kenw the vibration and bumps from driving over 2,500 miles a week would destroy the average laptop in less than a month. What my mobile office needed was a way to make my laptop accessible and protect it from the constant pounding of the road.

I looked for a suitable mobile laptop stand, but I couldn't find anything that addressed all the special needs of the rugged lifestyle of trucking. I began visualizing a stand that mounted to the air ride passenger seat. Then, one day while I was parked in the Petro Truck Stop in Joplin, Missouri, I built a prototype.

With a few refinements, I had developed a laptop stand that mounted to the air ride seat. Next, I added dual cooling fans to increase air flow that is so vital for a temperature sensitive computer.

Soon, every time I stopped, other drivers would see my trucker's workstation and would want to buy one. It became obvious there was a need for my product.

In May of 2005, I decided to take a really big risk. I gave my notice to the trucking company I was driving for, cashed in my 401k and started my business. I begged and bargained for deals on material and started building the first units in a bedroom. One month later, I began selling the Trucker's Workstation Laptop Stand.

As sales increased, I outgrew the bedroom. My new workshop was an old pet store. It was 400 square feet with paw prints on the walls and floors. The looks of the building didn't matter. I needed the space to produce the product. Every penny of profit was used for buying more material to keep up with expanding demands of the market.

Today, sales of my product are stronger than ever and the distribution network continues to grow. Countless sources have told me that I changed an entire industry with my patented and trademarked Trucker's WorkStation Laptop Stand. The Laptop Stand has been written about in nearly every trucking industry publication and has been featured in two episodes of CMT's Trick My Truck. My product is usually one of the top selling big truck accessory in hundreds of truck stops nationwide.

It takes a lot of effort to build a company that manufactures, distributes and sells a product. At CyberTrucker we work hard to make the best possible product for our customers. If you have a comment or a suggestion, we would love to hear from you.

Roy Stinson
President, CyberTrucker, LLC

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