Haulage & Press · One Compass, Two Directions
A parent company built on motion and meaning — long-haul freight and publishing, because both require knowing exactly where you're going.
Leased owner-operator, long-haul OTR trucking. Independent, reliable, and on the road.
The publishing arm — writing by Ellis E. Pinkerton, shaped by the long haul. Novels, series, shared worlds.
§ 01 — The Company
"Two kinds of navigation — both require knowing where you're going before you leave."
Inky Compass Ltd is a single-member Ohio LLC operating across two distinct but philosophically aligned industries. Freight hauling and fiction share more than most would guess: long stretches of solitude, an obsession with what waits at the destination, and the knowledge that the journey itself is the whole point.
The name comes from the tools of both trades — the compass that finds direction, the ink that fixes it to paper.
Long-haul OTR trucker and writer of fiction. Active on the road and on the page — with the Appalachian novel Rail-Rooted Rust and the Atrament Universe among ongoing works. The road is the research; the page is the result.
§ 02 — Get in Touch
Whether you're a shipper, broker, editor, or reader — drop a line. The compass points where it's needed.
§ 03 — From the Road & the Page
The latest from the Inky Compass Substack — road dispatches, writing updates, and whatever else is worth saying.
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