She’s licensed to hold out marriages and he’s an expert chef. They love the freedom of driving on open highways, hauling freight for a dwelling.

Marylynn Downham and Brian Keyes have been working for Challenger since 2016, initially as workers drivers and now driving separate giant rigs.

The couple is quick to degree out that they obtained alongside good whereas driving as a workers, nevertheless their properly being took a beating. Keyes talked about workers driving is an issue as a consequence of tight schedules and in addition you barely get time to arrange and eat healthful meals. Discovering time to coach may be troublesome. With the flexibility to get right sleep in a transferring truck was moreover a problem.

In two-and-a-half years, Keyes piled on 50 kilos and Downham gained 25 kilos.

The couple decided it was time to wrest once more their properly being. They talked about goodbye to workers driving and commenced working individually.

They bought and put in 1.1 cubic meter freezers of their vans. “We are going to make meals at home and freeze them and carry them. It made an infinite distinction to our weight reduction program,” Keyes, the earlier chef, talked about.

The couple took a 12 months to shed the burden they gained and has managed to keep up it off.

Downham talked about drivers should not must buy restaurant meals and make themselves so sick that they can’t benefit from their retirement. Their vans are equipped with air fryers, espresso makers, microwaves, and a freezer. “There is a extra wholesome technique to be a truck driver,” she talked about. “Get out of the truck and stroll, it is important.”

“I’ve obtained my favorite areas I want to stop at, I can stroll and run.”

Brian Keyes, driver

Keyes talked about he sees a lot of folks pull up of their vans and by no means get out. They merely shut the curtains and go to sleep. “I’ve obtained my favorite areas I want to stop at, I can stroll and run,” he talked about.

Downham and Keyes met later in life. She labored in buyer assist and made her means as a lot as administration. Keyes labored as a chef for almost 30 years. He moreover drove tractors and shuttle buses before now.

After managing just a few motels collectively, the couple decided to enter the trucking enterprise and obtained their Class A licenses.

They talked about Challenger makes sure to keep up them collectively and most situations they run as a two-truck convoy. The go within the similar path, head to fully totally different areas to drop and determine up lots of, and head once more collectively.

“If we’re entering into a number of directions, we always cross each other. We communicate, saying ‘we’ll stop proper right here, or I’ll meet you there.’ And we spend time collectively,” Downham talked about.

“I obtained a girl in every port. She always reveals up in an infinite white truck,” Keyes replied shortly with an infinite grin.

Downham talked about she has a smile on her face when she drives and nonetheless can’t take into account she is driving an infinite rig. She loves being her private boss and getting paid to see the sights.

Keyes finds the work pleasurable. He solely has to maintain up a schedule, get to areas on time and preserve the truck.

Daughter’s wedding ceremony ceremony

Later this month, Downham is making an attempt forward to marrying her daughter and her girlfriend who’ve been collectively for the earlier 11 years. Throughout the television assortment, Schitt’s Creek, Moira marries her son and his affiliate. Downham’s daughter requested if she would do the similar and she or he talked about positive.

She has acquired a certificates and letter of high quality standing and is ready for her first ceremony.

The couple has bought a home in Purple Deer, Alta., and are working exhausting to repay the mortgage. They plan to drive for a bit longer after that.

Downham hopes to have additional weddings to officiate eventually. “That is my retirement plan after I stop driving,” she talked about.