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Pelletier logging

The Pelletiering family started a business The business hauled logs to log mills Gerald Pelletier started the business and then his son's helped with the business then Gerald sadly passed away. Then his son's kept the family business hauling logs for years and years. They have a TV show called American loggers. The TV show is not on TV now it has stopped playing. They still haul logs today to the mill the business in Maine USA the company has a lot of trucks heavy logging stuff

, Then they had a 5th son named , Gary first went to work for his dad doing odd jobs in the company garage in Millinocket while waiting to report for basic training at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He had graduated early from high school, enlisted in the U.S. Army early in June of 1976, but was placed on inactive duty until he turned 18 the following February.

After basic training, Gary served first as a heavy equipment operator and truck driver at Fort Campbell, Kentucky followed by a tour of duty as a truck driver in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 1980, his father called him on the phone while he was still overseas and Gary remembers to this day having the conversation while lying on his bunk. He asked his father if he should come home to work for the family business or re-enlist with the expectation of a promotion. His father said, "Yeah, we have work for you."

Over the next 15 years, Gary worked with his father both to develop the use of double trailers to haul logs and to expand the business into road maintenance and graveling, first for Great Northern Paper and later for their own operations. His job today is to keep the logging roads in shape for trucking which, depending on the season, could mean plowing snow or graveling and grading. The brothers agree that they can all do most of the jobs in the company but each has fallen into what they seem to do most often. He met and married Diane Guerette on August 6, 1982 and they have three children; Derek, Melissa and Tyler.

Then they had a 4th son named Larry Lawrence Pelletier was born on September 19, 1957. He graduated from high school in 1975, joining the Army that same year. After basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, he went to Advanced Artillery Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and then on to jump school at Fort Benning, Georgia He was finally stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where he also participated in jungle training in Panama.

He got out February 28, 1978 and, as his father had a thriving business and he had a week and a half off, his father said, "Come with me". He accompanied his father to help move equipment out of the woods. It was lucky he was there because his brother, Rudy, broke both of his arms that spring and Larry was able to help his father out. Larry has been with the business ever since and was the first to drive the double trailer, a 1980 Mack Flat F Model cab. He says, "Our father depended upon us to be sure the experiment with the double trailer was successful, making us be sure it worked well because he depended upon it. After our three year experiment with them, other contractors began to follow our lead and haul with the double trailers."

Larry has since run equipment at the Fifth St. John base, including the grader and miscellaneous equipment, accepting more responsibility all the time, as well as continuing to drive. Larry is now the foreman of the Telos base camp and also contracts for other landowners. He married Tina Daigle on May 21, 1982. Together they have a son, Dustin, born in 1986 and a daughter, Chelsea, born in 1987.

Dustin graduated high school, and got his Class A license. He continued his education at Eastern Maine Community College, earning a degree in Machine Tool Technology. Today, he studies at Maine Maritime Academy, working toward a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Dustin is an outdoor enthusiast alongside his father and friends, enjoying camping, hunting, fishing, and four-wheeling. His dog Dozer is always by his side.

Chelsea is also an Eastern Maine Community College graduate, with a degree in Early Childhood Development. Like her family, she also enjoys the outdoors, and she is currently employed at a nursing and rehab facility in Bangor.

Then there 3rd son named Rudy. Rudy was the third child born on June 15, 1956. From around the age of 14, he worked for his father part time in the garage in Millinocket during school vacations. He finally quit school in Fort Kent in his junior year at age 16 to work with him full time. Though Rudy did not have a license, the logging roads were private so he was able to drive. These were the early years of the business, known then as Gerald Pelletier, Inc., and Rudy was able to partner with his dad and help bring the business along, looking for opportunities such as trucking contracts and the purchasing of equipment for various jobs, always with an eye to other avenues that might expand and grow the business.

After driving steadily for 15 years, Rudy became foreman of the Fifth St. John camp. This was a turning point in the business when it really began to grow and became more involved in maintaining roads and expanded to harvesting for other landowners.

As the business grew larger with the addition of more brothers, it became necessary to form Pelletier Brothers, Inc. to go along with the father's company. To this day Rudy remains committed to scouting for opportunities to grow the company with new contracts, along with co-owner, Eldon. Rudy married Lisa Daigle on August 4, 1978 and they have two children, Jason, born in 1980 and Loni, born in 1982. Rudy looks forward to the third generation's involvement in the business with son Jason and his nephews, hoping they will carry on the success of the current generations and says, "Keep on truckin!" Jason is a camp foreman in 5th St. John. He and his wife Amanda have been married since May 2009, and they had their first son in January of 2011. Loni is a customer service Lead for a cell phone company, and was married to Joshua McLaughlin in August 2010. The couple is expecting their first child in June.

GERALD PELLETIER WHO WAS A FARMER he STARTED GERALD PELLETIER INC. SM, which is an affiliate of Pelletier Brothers, Inc. SM today, after supplementing the family income from as early as the 1950s by hauling logs. Gerald Pelletier, Inc. became incorporated in 1976 and in 1989 took over a wood harvesting operation, which also involved road construction. As each of his sons reached their mid teens, Gerald put them behind the wheel of a truck and when each son came to work in the business, Gerald added another truck to his fleet and the business continued to grow from there.

GERALD GOT MARRYED TO A GIRL NAMED LENA. Then they had a son named Danny,he was the first child,to be born on April 6, 1954. In his teens, Danny started working on farms and drove trucks during the harvest in the Fort Kent, Maine area where he grew up. Although he was not due to graduate from high school until June of 1972, he joined the National Guard in January and left for basic training after receiving his diploma. He was assigned to the artillery and stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.He returned and drove trucks for his father's business until 1975 when he went to work for Great Northern Paper as a parts clerk and equipment operator. When the GNP mill sold out to Georgia Pacific in 1990, Danny returned to his father's business, working on road maintenance, patching potholes in good weather and plowing snow in winter. He's now a regular logging truck driver, but he operates everything when it's needed, including loaders, cranes and excavators.

Then they had a second son Eldon was born April 22, 1955 in Caribou, Maine. Before graduating from high school he began working evenings and weekends for local farmers and then full time for his uncle at his car dealership. After a year, his father, Gerald, put him in a truck with no instruction and he "had to learn fast." After driving for about 10 years, he began managing the garage of seven trucks and log loaders, a role he filled for another 12 years before becoming company president and co-owner with brother, Rudy.

Both now oversee the full range of logging operations, including trucking, road construction, road maintenance, shop maintenance, mill yard log hauling and manage upwards of 70 employees plus many subcontractors. For around 30 years, Eldon and his late father, Gerald, competed in four wheel drive modified truck pulling as members of the Maine State Pullers, the Northern Penobscot Pullers and the National Truck Pullers Association. Eldon is married to Judy Godin and they have three children: Cassie, who has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Rehabilitation Services, and Erika, who has an Associates degree in Medical Assisting and and an Associates degree in Dental Hygiene. Erika was recently married to Jason Linkletter, a police officer with the city of Bangor. They have a daughter named Kassidy, and they are expecting another daughter in July. Eldon and Judy also have a boy, Aaron, who is working with his uncle Larry in Telos. They now have two grandchildren, a girl named Kassidy and a boy named Carter. Eldon loves to travel and camp in his motor home with his family and also enjoys hunting and fishing. According to Eldon, "Life is great!"

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