iLuvMyTrucker: Gary Rittenour

Sep 4, 2013

He is my best friend, my co-worker, my husband. He has a 2-million-miles-plus safe, perfect driving record. He will help anyone he can. He’s a loving father of two girls, and grandfather of a boy and a girl and another boy on the way!! He doesn’t get to see them as he is delivering the FedEx packages everywhere in the U.S. We have been trucking together for 17 years and got married in Reno, Nev., in our truck.

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