10/23/2025
My friend Bob Girouard passed away in Spokane WA on Monday 10/20/2025.
He was affectionately known as Spokane Bob.
Bob was born in 1952 in North Adams Massachusetts.
He was a very hard worker throughout his life.
In 2017 he had shoulder surgery which was botched and effectively ended his driving career that he intended to continue.
He did Long haul for about 30 years when his two kids were growing up.
He drove dump truck for Lory Reimann in Idaho with Scarsella Bros. When the Third Runway started around 2004 Lory said if you want to make some good money get your ass over here, that's when he came to "The Coast" living with Lynn Trusty in Tacoma. He worked on both the TTI contracts and many other Scarsella projects.
He was dispatched to Hos around 2011 when I met him at the Amazon project in Kent driving ORT. We were posted up at Lakeside afterwards and eventually staged in Granite Falls for the next 15 months on the Boeing 777X project. He lived in "Eenunclaw" and commuted with Henry Garcia, they weren't too happy but we made good money and pumped up our pensions.
Bob was a good man, loyal and reliable. I will miss talking to him, he was a character and full of BS
Rest in Peace Old Man
