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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Victor Godinez
Oct. 23--Erin Rucker never imagined she'd be running her father's custom motorcycle and car shop.
But when a motorcycle accident left Bill Rucker, 48, in a coma and, eventually, without his left leg, she didn't have much choice.
"The accident happened on a Thursday," she said. "So Monday I had a meeting with everyone that was here, and I told them that we were going to continue on, business as usual. We're going to move forward, and that any decisions that needed to be made, I would make them."
While her father has recovered and returned to the helm of Rucker Performance Motorcycle Co., Ms. Rucker, 24, has gone from part-time employee to full-time operations officer.
As her father was convalescing between August 2004 and last January, Ms. Rucker took charge of nearly every aspect of the high-end Fort Worth bike maker.
Ira Bryck, director of the UMass Family Business Center (www .umass.edu/fambiz) in Amherst, Mass., said children...
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