Clyde Way was born in Flowers Cove, Newfoundland. The oldest son of a woodsman turned carpenter. Clyde grew up in a Northern Peninsula community where there were no phones, electricity, or paved roads, and the only schooling was the typical Newfoundland one room affair.

Clyde used to team up his dog sled and head into the forest to cut wood for his home and school. He had an early rise at 4:30 am, to take out the family dory in order to catch fish, some of which he would salt down in wooden barrels so the dogs would have enough to eat during the hard winter.

Clyde's first job, while still in school, was wheeling barrows of coal from the docked schooners to the local co-operative warehouse. He also sold small wares door to door. As he grew into his teens, Clyde helped a local tradesman wire homes in the area as the exciting new 'electricity' made its way into town.  At 15, his father bought a car and he learned how to drive. He dreamed that perhaps he would own one of his own someday..... maybe even a truck ! Meantime, he worked as a messenger boy at the local post office, using a bicycle to make his rounds. By the time he got his drivers license, a makeshift and unpaved road had been constructed to Corner Brook, though a ferry crossing was necessary in Bonne Bay.

At age 17, Clyde went to work with his uncle truck distributing beverages for a local distributor. Often he would risk getting the goods around Bonne Bay via the new path, so he would not have to wait for the ferry. A year later, Clyde took over the business from his uncle.

Shortly after the age of 20, Clyde sold his stake truck to purchase a dump truck and began helping link communities by road, as the sea began to lose its status of 'highway'

In 1973, a local distributor invited him to take over their two tandem trucks and contract with them to haul their produce. Clyde gradually began buying more trucks and gathering more clients. Often he would change tires in the middle of the night on the side of the road, inflating them with the vehicles engine, to ensure the cargo was delivered as promised. His wife looked after the children and the bookkeeping from a small basement office.

Today the business is run by the next generation. His sons, Marvin and Monty operate what is now known as Way's Transport Ltd. As a boy, Clyde learned the value of hard work and has passed this ethic on to his sons.