Tiffany Pell had "never been anywhere" too far from her hometown of Lafayette, near the Georgia-Tennessee border. Her comfortable job as a dean's assistant at a local college provided for her needs well enough, but she would soon get swept off her feet by a charming driver and the allure of life on the road in the trucking industry.
Tiffany stumbled upon Jeremy Wallin, an owner-operator and a driver of more than 30 years, as a profile photo in Facebook's "People You May Know" tab.
"It’s funny, the town that I’m from and the town he lived in are super close, boundary counties just 10 miles from each other, but I’d never seen him," she said. "We just never met. I saw this good-looking dude on Facebook and he had these blue eyes and a little dimple and I thought, 'I have to talk to him.'"
But how? For days she pondered "elaborate" and "interesting" introductions, but it was all for naught.
In the end, Jeremy posted a picture from Texas of his newly bought 2017 Freightliner Coronado on his first haul for Noble Trucking, where he's leased on, and Tiffany abandoned the idea of a clever segue.
"How's Texas?" she messaged him.
"Hot as hell," Jeremy shot back. He had actually made it to New Mexico by that time, but he had the good sense not to question the lady.
