Videos from my fire department, the Monticello Fire Dept. and my activities with my fire dept.

Hi I'm Hank also known as Fotofreddie.
My home is upstate New York, but I also spend a lot of time in Germany.
I'm a retired truck owner driver. Retired because of back and hip injuries. I ran my little trucking company in a partnership with my mom. I still own my well known 1981 Kenworth K-100C VIT Aerodyne. My truck is known around the world as "Hank's Highway Hilton" My website about my truck can be found @ www.highway-hank.de Ever since I was a little boy, I wanted to be a trucker and that's what I did until I got hurt. I used to drive all over the US. I also had the opportunity to go on 2 International Show Truck Tours all over Northern and Eastern Europe in 1992 and 1993. Also in 1995 and 1996 I had the opportunity to drive a big Mack show truck in Germany and northern Europe for the German electronics chain Media Markt.. Besides trucking and truck shows, my next biggest activity is photography. I have always liked taking pictures, and that's how I got my nickname Fotofreddie. I used to take so many pictures, that my young German friends started calling me "Fotofreddie"
Besides my trucking activities, I have also liked serving my community. I'm a 35 plus year member of the Monticello Fire Department. But because of my injuries I have been reassigned to non physical strenuous duties. I was also a member of our local volunteer ambulance corp. until a sneaky paid ambulance service along with dirty politics got them shut down. I am also a member of our local Kiwanis club. I am also an honorary member of the Emden Germany Fire Department, City Center Station.
In the summer of 2006 I got a new computer which had Windows Movie Maker and also finally a DSL connection and since than I've been posting videos on Youtube. In the fall of 2006 I finally got my first two digital cameras with video feature, and started making my own videos. I had planned on dividing my video making time between my fire department and my skater and other young friends, and opened two accounts for this on YouTube, fotofreddiefirevids and fotofreddiesk8vids. I no sooner got started with my fire action videos and my fire department's hierarchy let me know of their displeasure of my video activities. So I now spent most my free time making sk8er videos, including 5 videos of German Sk8ers that I met on a recent visit to Germany. As I keep making videos, they keep getting better. In February 2007 I finally got my system to transfer my old analog videos to digital up and running. I have over 30 hours of videos of Trucking in America and from my 2 Euro Tours and Skateboarding Video. I am now slowly transferring all the videos and that's where I'm spending most my free time now. I will be uploading them here as I get the chance to transfer them to digital and rework them in my Movie Maker. I've also opened HighwayHank1 on Youtube for all my Trucking Videos
Because of my trucking, photo and internet activities I have friends all over the world, but mostly in Germany and northern Europe along with here in the US.