Lewie Pugh

Lewie Pugh began his career in trucking as a motor transport operator for the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992. He joined the commercial trucking ranks as a company driver in 1994, but soon bought a truck and made the leap to owner-operator in 1996.

Lewie joined OOIDA in 1996 because he was looking for an organization to represent his interests in Washington, DC. He was later nominated and elected as an alternate to the OOIDA Board of Directors in 2004. In 2006, Lewie was seated as a director – a position he holds to this day. In 2017, he (reluctantly) parked his truck and moved from his home state of Ohio to Grain Valley, MO, to work fulltime at OOIDA. He was elected Executive Vice-President in 2018.