Ray & Carla - From Little Rock to Albuquerque on the I-40
Ray D., flatbed owner-operator, 52, Little Rock AR · Carla M., dental hygienist, 38, Albuquerque NM
"My wife of 18 years left while I was on a New Mexico run in 2022. Said the truck destroyed her. Maybe it did. After the divorce I told myself I was done - no woman in her right mind signs up for three weeks gone, a week home. I deleted every dating app and figured a Kenworth and a coonhound were the only company I needed."
"Then in late 2024 a buddy at the Petro in West Memphis told me about TruckerConnections. I made a profile sitting in the driver's lounge, half because he wouldn't shut up about it. Carla matched me a week later - she'd put I-40 in her interests because her dad had been a long-haul driver in the 80s and she missed him. We talked for two months before I ever rolled through Albuquerque. First meet was breakfast at a Denny's on Coors Boulevard. She brought her dad's old CB call sign written on a napkin."
"We've been together fourteen months. She still works days at a dental office; I still run I-40 between Little Rock and Albuquerque about every ten days. The platform didn't fix the schedule. It just gave me somebody who knew the schedule going in. That changes everything."
Verified Couple Member since 2024