SITW ROADS • RAILS • RUNWAYS

STEVE • IKE • TUCKER • WILSON

Transportation is my career.
Getting there is the fun part.

Transit leader, roadgeek, airport geek, traveler, and lifelong student of how people—and places—connect.

My career hasn't followed a straight line. Neither have I.

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ROADGEEK

Interstates I've Driven

Primary Interstates, 3DIs, oddball designations, complete routes, partial routes, and the occasional highway whose legitimacy is under review.

EXPLORE THE LIST →

OTHER OBSESSIONS

And Then There's LEGO.

Because apparently roads, buses and airports weren't enough.

ENTER THE BRICK ZONE →

ABOUT ME

More than a résumé.

I was born in 1975 to Robert and Deborah Beck in Rochelle, Illinois. I attended Lincoln School, Rochelle Junior High and Rochelle Township High School, graduating in 1993.

Scouting became a major part of my life beginning in first grade with Pack 552. In 1987 I joined Troop 312, where I earned Eagle Scout. I later returned as the final Scoutmaster of Troop 312 and helped two young men earn Eagle Scout.

I graduated from Kishwaukee College in 1998 and Western Illinois University in 2000, then returned for my master's degree, finally finishing in 2011 after a transportation internship. During college I was recognized in Who's Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges and inducted into Rho Phi Lambda.

My first career began with the Boy Scouts of America in 2001. After leaving professional Scouting and spending a few years figuring out what I wanted to be when I grew up, I returned to graduate school.

Then transportation found me.

I began driving a bus for Laidlaw in 2007, became a supervisor with First Transit in 2009, and became a General Manager with Durham School Services in 2012. The rest is history.

SITW is personal too: Steve, Ike, Tucker & Wilson.

Roots

Rochelle, Illinois

My hometown, schools, Troop 312, and where much of the story began.

Education

Kishwaukee → WIU

Kishwaukee College and Western Illinois University, with the scenic route included at no extra charge.

Leadership

Service First

Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow leader, Scoutmaster, transportation leader— and leave it better than you found it.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Atwood Park, Rochelle Illinois

Vietnam Veterans Memorial • Atwood Park • Rochelle, Illinois
My Eagle Scout service project, dedicated September 1, 1991.

SCOUTING • SERVICE • NORVIN

Leave it better than you found it.

My Eagle Scout project was inspired in part by my Scoutmaster and mentor, Norvin L. Moss, a Master Sergeant in the United States Air Force and a veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm.

Norvin taught us respect for those who served, responsibility to our community, and the expectation that whatever was placed in our care should be better because we were there.

Years later, his family asked me to deliver his eulogy.

Until We Meet Again.

PROFESSIONAL

Transportation leadership.

More than 17 years of progressive transportation experience in public transit operations, organizational leadership, strategic planning, safety, labor relations and operational turnarounds.

2021 — Present

General Manager

Hendrickson Transportation Group

2020 — 2021

Director of Transportation

IndyGo • Indianapolis

2018 — 2020

General Manager

RATP Dev • KY, CO & TX

The Scenic Route

Operations Leadership

First Transit • Transdev • Durham School Services

ROADGEEK — Interstates I've Driven

A living log of the pavement I've personally put tires on.

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3-Digit / Branch Routes
No routes match that filter.

OTHER OBSESSIONS

And Then There's LEGO.

A creative outlet, a stress reliever, and an ever-expanding collection of small plastic bricks that I apparently believe constitutes responsible adult behavior.

This is the beginning of the Brick Zone. Actual collection photos, favorite sets, architecture, vehicles, and whatever I swore I had no room for are coming next.

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Architecture
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Vehicles
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Big Builds
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The Collection

RAILS & TRANSIT

The thing that became a career.

Systems, vehicles, facilities, operations, and an alarming number of bus photographs.

Coming Next

The Bus Photo Warehouse

Once we start pulling from the collection, this section may require its own ZIP code.

AIRPORT GEEK

Runways, terminals & connections.

Airports visited, terminal observations, favorites, decidedly not-favorites, and rankings nobody asked for but absolutely deserve to exist.

PHOTOS

Places, vehicles & everything between.

Road, transit, airport, travel, Scouting, LEGO and life galleries will grow here over time.

CONTACT

Say hello.

Professional inquiries, transit conversations, or a compelling argument about an Interstate designation.

Privacy Matters

Contact form coming soon.

No public phone number. Some things do not need to become part of the internet forever.