Steve Raley
Steven Hull Raley (born c. 1970; died July 12, 2022) was a salesman, truck driver, sports announcer, and TikTok celebrity.
Raley earned a bachelor's degree in marketing at the University of Montevallo in 1995. He worked in sales with Midsouth Packaging until 2003 and then spent two years in the same capacity with TimBar. From 2005 to 2009 he handled sales for Custom Marketing Services of Calera, then spent another year with the Kent H. Landsberg Co.
In 2010 Raley joined Kelly Educational Staffing of Troy, Michigan in business development and was promoted to manager. In 2017 he took an outside sales position with High Lifter Products of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Since 2015 Raley has volunteered as a play-by-play announcer for Helena High School on APH Radio.
Raley later began driving a truck, and also sharing videos with a large audience on TikTok using the nickname "Dozer" and posting under the handle "@pissed_off_trucker", amassing more than 180,000 followers. In July 2022 his truck left Interstate 70 about 16 miles from Colby, Kansas, then plowed through a fence, returned and crossed both sides of the interstate, and crashed into a ditch. Raley was taken to Citizens Medical Center in Colby, where he was pronounced dead.
Raley was survived by his wife, Angela, and four children.
References
- Smith, Tandra (July 16, 2022) "Pissed Off Trucker, Alabama man known for trucking TikToks, dies after semi crash in Kansas." The Birmingham News
- Patterson, Charmaine (July 19, 2022) "Alabama Man, Known as 'Pissed Off Trucker' on TikTok, Dead at 52 Following Crash" People
External links
- Steve Raley on LinkedIn.com