10-4 Magazine December 2022

Cover Feature: By Stephanie Haas 2020. Ironically, they would’ve met eventually, even if not on the dating site, because Dylan’s father was business partners with Brittney’s father. Dylan would go on to run this truck for about three years, hauling hay from Utah to California, and then in April of 2021 he rebuilt the motor, painted the frame purple, and replaced the rear suspension. Dylan rebuilt the motor himself from the ground up, adding a 15.2 PAI HP kit with ceramic-coated A phrase we have all probably used at least once in our lives can have various meanings, but one meaning “It is what it is” holds, is that we can’t change what happened, all we can do is move on. Accredited to his late grandfather Cliff, this saying has been carried with Dylan Badders (28) of Parowan, UT throughout his life, including a rolling reminder inscribed on the back of his cool 1994 Freightliner cabover. Raised in Lund, NV, Dylan was born in Fresno, CA during his mom’s visit with family when he decided he would arrive three months early. His parents, Rhonda and Boyd Badders, both had close ties to the trucking industry before getting together, which includes Boyd’s father and Rhonda’s father and grandfather. Dylan and his brothers are fourth generation in the trucking industry with their great-grandfather (mother’s grandfather) being the first generation to get into trucking. Dylan started riding with his dad and grandpas when he was four or five years old. Driving came early for Dylan, both from the exposure he had with his family and being taught by his father, as well as hauling hay for a farm he worked for starting at the age of 14. After high school, he went to diesel mechanic school in Arizona, graduated in 2015, and was a diesel mechanic for about a year and a half. He obtained his commercial driver’s license at the age of 21 in 2016 and, in April of 2018, he bought his first truck – a charcoal gray and yellow cabover which he found in a Facebook group, and then started D.T.B. Trucking LLC. Fast forward to July of 2020 and, after Dylan utilized a dating site, he met his future wife, Brittney. A future together was figured out right away, and the two were married on December 17, IT IS WHAT IT IS 10 10-4 Magazine / December 2022