What Happened To That Driver?

Over the years we have had quite a few characters come through the forums. Plenty of nice ones, but also lots of looneys, still have a few here in my opinion. Here's an update on some of our older members that learned from us... then ran off never to be heard from again.

Ray

Almost at his 2 year mark, unfortunately not accident-free but he's still trucking! Ray was an Instructor/Trainer and had many students. I would say he's a successful solo driver.

Kathy

This former teacher spent quite a bit of time at her first company, Central Refrigerated, then moved on to America's Service Line. Its remarkable, right now she is the Orientation Administrator at Swift's Rochelle, IL terminal!

David Cochran

David spent a while at Swift. Being OTR was extremely difficult on his family so he went to work for Goodwill near his CA home. He then went to Gordon to get more OTR experience. He now calls Iowa home and works for Coco-Cola as a local driver.

Chris M.

Chris started with Central Refrigerated and drove for just under a year. He is now home and away from the industry because his wife had medical problems that were too difficult to control while on the road.

Randy

Randy has done very well with leasing. He was a former Instructor/Trainer earning a Trifecta on his very first student. He joined Prime's lease-purchase program and drives a truck he will soon own. He is looking at other purchasing agencies and possibly going to Landstar in the future.

Jopa

Jopa started his career at Prime. He had an extremely rough start, getting into multiple incidents and staining his record. One day he had heart pains and went to the doctor. The doctor did not allow him to operate a CMV from that point on so Prime had to cease his truck. Jopa spent many months in recovery (he made a full recovery) and landed a local government driving job in Truckee. He was paid extremely well hourly wage, but there wasn't much work, with winter around the corner there is now no work to be done for many months. He is still deciding his next move.

Guy DeCou

Ah, yes, our legendary bench warmer. Guy is still employed by Prime, and to this day is accident free. I got my Driver Manager to recruit Guy to our board and it went through perfectly. Guy is an extremely talented driver and gives me a run for my money when it comes to getting the top MPG for the fleet. He is stiff competition - I wish I never recruited him to my fleet.

Here's a guy I miss.

ThinksTooMuch

We chatted on the phone a few times when I was in trucking school. Good guy. Last I heard he was working a regional / local gig for US Xpress. We both have a philosophy background, and consequently, think too much ... Being a truck driver does give you plenty of time to be in your head while on the road.

He contributed some good threads on TT about pulling a tanker.

Hey, this is really cool! I'm glad you put this together Daniel! We'll have to keep adding onto this one.....

Lol Daniel, competition just keeps things interesting

And to think I almost made the list. lol

I badger Kathy and Guy all the time to pop in here. I always can't help but wonder what happened to Amelia? Haven't seen her since the old forum.