So he paid off his home in Milwaukee WI in less than 10 years on a bus driver salary and my Grandma working at Gimbles.  

Mom makes ice cream from scratch, dad is a mechanic, and they find older cargo/transit vans for a couple thousand dollars, spend $10k to convert them and equip them, and then hire drivers (for 25% of revenue) to go sell the ice cream (high quality version).

He is a truck driver who is rarely in state and does not answer my calls but relays messages through her.

They have a medical and vet school there and that also means a university hospital for the region.That's probably the two big demand drivers....also some ag and some energy.