In this edition of our special series honoring the Elite 11 from Transition Trucking’s Driving For Excellence Award, you’ll meet Prime Inc. driver Jeff Barber, who entered the industry after 19 years of service in the U.S. Army and subsequent career as a deployed military consultant.

Jeff talks to us about what inspired him to enlist in the Army at age 16, and he looks back on the discipline and structure of the military that served as foundational building blocks for his success in life. Jeff tells us that he was drawn to Prime because the company’s terminal structure reminded him of military operations.

Entering the trucking industry in his early 60s, Jeff always held a curiosity about getting behind the wheel of a big rig, especially after working in logistics as a tank commander in the Army and then as a consultant during his initial post-military career. As he shares with us, one of the goals that Jeff is seeking to accomplish with every mile that he drives is to put back a portion of his earnings into the college funds of his four grandchildren.

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