Jeff Pelletier : American Loggers : Discovery Channel

Jeff Pelletier

Jeff, the next to youngest, was born on October 4, 1967. Starting at the age of 10, he earned spending money working in the garage washing the trucks and sweeping the garage. When the brothers showed up with the trucks at night, he would refuel and re-service the trucks for the morning, enjoying it almost as playtime at that age. At 14, he tried to quit school to work in the woods but his parents wouldn’t let him. Two years later, he was finally able to leave school legally, but when his father Gerald refused to hire him he hauled potatoes and wheat for a local farmer in Fort Kent, Maine. At the time, his older brother Rudy gave him a hard time for quitting school but Rudy had also quit school at age 16 to drive trucks, making the two brothers the youngest to drive for the company business.

After four weeks, his father realized Jeff was serious about working for the family business. He hired him to drive trucks with reclaimed wood to the mill all night long on the Golden Road. Though he did not have a license at this time, the logging roads were private. When he turned 18, Jeff was officially put on the payroll, he began hauling wood out of Fifth St. John camp to the Golden Road landing. Here his brothers hooked onto the double trailers and drove them to Millinocket mill. After 10 years at this job, he finally was promoted to haul to the mill himself. From then until now he has been parts manager and shop foreman, doing maintenance on the equipment and road maintenance at the Millinocket facility on the Golden Road. Jeff is a good father to his two daughters Renee and Sophie, saying it is very hard to be a single dad and take care of his daughters, keeping the working hours he does. He hopes for a good future for the family business and his two daughters.

* Learn more about the American Loggers Family at Gerald Pelletier Inc.

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