Not long after Bob and Nancy Drummond posed with their family for this story, their multiple-award winning tractor-trailer was severely damaged when it was rear-ended by two rigs in a thick bank of Florida wildfire smoke.
Neither Bob nor Nancy was badly injured, but the ongoing wrangle with insurers is causing pain and delaying a rebuild. Still the motto on their tractor, "Ain't God Good!" affirms their faith and sums up their lives, the couple say.
Married for 18 years, the Drummonds live in Cocoa, Florida, and have had their own authority since 1986. They met at a truckstop -- Nancy was an independent while Bob was a company driver.
Since then, besides hauling plants, they have built and showed stunning Kenworth W900s and trailers.
"We're the only folks to have been on the Shell Oil Calendar three times with three different KWs," they say. They won the National Association of Show Trucks' 1999 Truck-Lite Trophy and have earned over 100 awards. Bob and Nancy were founding members of NAST and Bob was its first president.
When they aren't delivering plants or polishing battery boxes, the Drummonds are rarely found indoors. "We are an 'outdoors; family. Give us a grill ad a picnic table, enough people to play baseball and ride the 4-wheeler through the woods and we're happy," Nancy says. "Bob and I enjoy riding the road bikes on country roads. It helps us unwind from the stress of the trucking life."
