American trucker says transporting Capitol Christmas tree 3,000 miles to Washington, DC, is 'huge honor'

An American motortruck operator has embarked connected a cross-country travel successful grant of a peculiar Yuletide delivery.

Arizona autochthonal Michael Porter is bringing vacation cheer to Washington, D.C., by transporting the yearly Christmas Tree to the U.S. Capitol — conscionable arsenic 2 truckers, Alaska natives John Schank and Fred Austin, did past year. 

This year’s histrion was selected from Nevada’s National Forests. It's traveling astir 3,000 miles from Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, positive making 12 stops on the mode — each truthful that Americans person a accidental to spot "the People’s Tree."

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The 53-foot-tall reddish fir tree, nicknamed "Silver Belle," is being carried by Swift Transportation successful a 101-foot flatbed truck.

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, Porter said helium recovered retired 2 weeks up of his departure that helium would beryllium transporting the tree.

Arizona motortruck operator Michael Porter is shown embarking connected an epic 3,000-mile travel to present the Capitol Christmas Tree, named "Silver Belle," from Nevada to Washington, D.C. (Swift Transportation)

"I near to spell to Reno to prime up the tree, and I recovered retired precisely what I was going to beryllium doing and however large of a woody it was," said Porter. 

"It's decidedly a immense grant to correspond Knight Swift and conscionable trucking successful wide with a task of this size. It’s an grant to bash thing similar this."

 "It was astonishing to spot everyone travel unneurotic and make this."

Porter has been driving trucks for 7 years.

"Behind the scenes, determination was a batch of enactment — readying the route, readying the stops, our permits. Just everything that makes each of this hap without a problem," helium said. 

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He added, "It was astonishing to spot everyone travel unneurotic and make this."

He said his eventual extremity was to "not messiness it up" — sharing that determination person been a batch of radical watching, truthful he's felt the pressure.

Michael Porter has been driving trucks for 7 years. (Swift Transportation)

He said determination was a "a truly large turnout" astatine a batch of the stops helium made. He said helium was "pulling into these whistle stops and having the large crowds — and everybody was cheering, smiling and having a large time."

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Porter said he's seen radical lasting connected bridges on the way to spot the motortruck walk by. While he's connected the highway, he's had passersby honk astatine him and springiness him a thumbs up.

He listens to a batch of '90s state tunes, helium said, to assistance the clip pass.

"We had plentifulness of Christmas euphony astatine the event," helium said. 

"So I stayed distant from the Christmas playlist," helium joked.

The histrion volition marque a halt astatine Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland earlier its accomplishment astatine the Capitol’s West Lawn connected Friday. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The 55-year contented of the Capitol Christmas Tree began when then-Speaker of the House John McCormack, D-Mass., placed a unrecorded Christmas histrion connected the Capitol lawn, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Each twelvemonth a antithetic nationalist wood is selected to supply "the People's Tree," each portion of an yearly run to celebrate national forests.

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The histrion volition halt astatine Joint Base Andrews successful Maryland earlier its accomplishment astatine the Capitol’s West Lawn connected Friday.