It was 1951 on the family dairy farm in Loveland. Ray Enoch knew his father needed to move some cows, but with a broken back, his dad couldn’t get out of bed to do it himself. So Enoch, just 13 at the time, hopped in the driver’s seat of the family truck and took off without telling a soul.
“I pulled a no-no and drove to Denver with a load of cattle,” Enoch said Tuesday, wearing his trademark cowboy hat while sitting in a booth at IHOP in Grand Junction.
Years later, when Enoch’s mother took a phone call from a truck driver who had the mumps and needed someone to take over his route, she knew who to hand the phone to. Enoch hasn’t stopped driving since.
Trucker honored for 51 years of jammin' gears
