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Team drivers found love for driving and each
other after crossing paths at Ohio career fair
Gwenetta Binns had her CDL three years
before meeting Julian, but once the two
hit it off at a career fair, they quickly
decided to pursue driving as a team.
Julian got his CDL shortly afterward,
and now they haul a regional route in
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
A lot of career success stories start with a
resume. The same can’t typically be said for love
stories. For Gwenetta and Julian Binns, however,
both became reality. The two got the best of both
worlds when they struck up a conversation at a
local career fair in Ohio.
Julian was looking into the possibilities of
getting funding to attend CDL driving school,
while Gwenetta was checking out local vendors
and updating her resume. She had already
obtained her CDL three years earlier but had not
started driving professionally just yet.
“I helped him with his resume, and he helped
me with things, and we just hit it off,” Gwenetta
said. “I talked to him for about four or five hours
that day. I never called him, but he called me.
I decided to give him a chance, and we started
dating.”
In the time that Gwenetta and Julian were
dating, Julian obtained his CDL through the
same program Gwenetta had completed years
earlier.
The couple got married in June 2019 and only
three months later, the two hit the road as a pair.
Now they are team drivers of a 2020 Freightliner
Cascadia hauling for Cleveland-based Formica
Flooring where they drive a dedicated route
from Indiana to Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Although Gwenetta had her CDL for quite
some time before meeting Julian, she already
knew she wanted to drive as a team with
someone she could get along with. When she
met Julian, everything just seemed to fall into
place. Gwenetta was then able to stop working
jobs outside of the transportation industry and
put her CDL to use.
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