Update!

Ok, so Kyle says I got the whole story wrong.

LOL

(What's new...)

HERE is the corrected version.

He and the 4 other tired truckers-to-be

arrived at the front desk of 

LaQuinta at 2:00 on Sunday morning.

Kyle was first in line.

He was told his reservation was for Sunday night

not Saturday night.

He said, fine, can you get me a room anyway,

I will be happy to pay for it.

Nope, hotel is full.

End of conversation.

Kyle turned around and there was a man

wearing a Corporate Logo shirt (polo-type)

from Conway Freight.

Being 2:00 in the morning after a 33+ hour

bus ride, his brain wasn't really firing on all cylinders

so his first thought was
"Wow!  They got here FAST to fix this!"

LOL

Actually it was a Conway driver.

There was a big "truck rodeo" going on in Joplin

over the weekend and this driver was driving the

company shuttle.  Had just come in from his final

run when he realized he lost his room key so was at the

front desk to replace it.

He asked "what's going on here?" and

when he found out there were 5 soon to be 

coworkers standing there with luggage

(and equally large bags under their eyes)

and no place to stay,

he got on the phone.

Confirmed that the same people who owned

the LaQuinta also owned the Days Inn just

4 doors down the street.  Called and made

sure they had rooms.

Loaded the men and their stuff back into

his shuttle van and drove them down there.

Then he went IN and got them rooms,

made arrangements to have the company pay 

for them and made sure they were all taken care of!

What a great man!

Kyle said he was with them for nearly an hour!

All between 2 and 3 in the morning!

Kyle asked his name, but now he can't remember it.

He saw him again several times

(he was out on the backing pad helping the new

trainees) and Kyle thanked him again for

all his help.  Wish I knew his name though.

Would love to tell the company about how

awesome he was and what a great representative

of the company he is!

Anyhow.

THANKS ANONYMOUS CONWAY DRIVER!

(hope this version is closer! lol)