Meet the Rooster

My name is Richard Goon, better known by my "handle", the Truckin Rooster. As a child I dreamed of many big things in life, one of them being to grow up and become an OTR truck driver, which is what I eventually did. In 2002 I had just turned 21, living with my mom and stepdad just outside of Denver,CO when I picked up a newspaper,saw the ad for a national truck driving school, and I called, got enrolled, and the rest is history.

So they shipped me off on a greyhound bus to Burlington,IA where I completed a two week course and received my CDL. I then went back home, and shortly after began my career with covenant transport.

So anyway I wasnt always known as the Rooster, up until 2006 I carried the alias of "Sleepy" which I got from some of my old buddies I used to hang out with and we cruised the town together, chatting on our CB's and raising hell. The name Sleepy came from me working 3rd shift out at Denver Intl Airport, so naturally I was sleeping a lot during the day, so they decided to give me that name.

In 2006 everything changed when I went to work for Jamestown Transportation, at this time I had been living back in my original hometown in Ohio for about a year. What they did was haul airfreight from Airbourne Airpark in Wilmington,OH and they drove a lot of really shiny, fancy rigs with tons of lights and chrome, commonly referred to in the trucking circles as "Rooster cruisers". So I decided it was time to upgrade my image a bit, and I dubbed myself the "Airborne Rooster" , then later after I had moved on I just became Rooster.

Anyways now I am 34 years old, been driving 13 years now, 5 years with my present company, and I am happily married to my beautiful wife Gina since November 2014, and I have 3 stepdaughters at home. 16,14, and 12, and a stepson who is 18 and he lives on his own.

So that's the short version, and here I am starting a new blog about my continuing adventures out on the open roads of America. You can visit my YouTube channel as well for lots of videos.
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