Smokey Cochran

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

K.W. Drieir just called to let me know that Smokey Cochran just passed away.  Jimmy Evans an old DSI transport employee, called him last night and told him.

Smokey Cochran was part of our executive staff at DSI transports.  He was an old driver who went in the management.  DSI transports had management that were old drivers.

I just barely remember Smokey Cochran.  He retired not long after I joined the company in 1991.  Last time I saw him was that the old company reunion, about twenty years ago!  He was elderly and walking with a cane back then!

For me is passing is about the old ways of trucking that are passing away.  The old trucker culture that we once cherished and loved.  The old school drivers and management.  All of that is slowly passing away.

I miss the old days of the very large table in the driver's room.  Older drivers with their large safety rings sitting around the table.  Lots of stories being told, some of them even being  true.

The old trucking days are disappearing! This new breed of younger drivers have no respect for the past.  Drivers back then were mostly white drivers. We have a culture of respect in the past and respecting our elders.  The industry now is mostly minorities who have no respect for the past.

Brother Roop