PENA TRUCKING INC.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA

To say that Orestes Peña has overcome long odds to achieve considerable success in the trucking business is the ultimate understatement. Peña’s first job was at Easy Lift in North Hollywood where he worked as a welder. A year later, with business very slow, he was laid off. That end was to be the beginning of a trucking career. “I went to Tampa in October of 1973 to visit a friend of my dad who had a 10 wheel dump truck. He showed me a check for $572 that he made in one week. I was only making $172 a week in California. So I bought my first truck on October13, 1973 in Lakeland Florida, and I started working like a maniac.” In 1974, business was bad enough in Florida to prompt Peña to move back to California. “Little by little, I found trucking work. Then one day I met a fellow by the name of Jim Grondyke. In April 1974, he started giving me some business. When the other guys didn’t want to go to Santa Barbara because it was too far, I went. I went anywhere he sent me. The Northridge earthquake got Peña’s trucking company off to a fast start this year. He ran 30-40 trucks for Penhall’s I-10 demolition. He’s worked on the 5 and 118 for Penhall and Reyes Construction & Security Paving, respectively. Peña has 30 trucks working with Cleveland Demolition at Sherman Oaks Galleria and Bullocks at Northridge Fashion Center. And that’s just a partial list of his recent activity. Peña, now 45, still lives in North Hollywood ­ in one of six houses he owns in that city with Irma, his wife of 21 years, son Ortestes Jr., an daughters, Yesenia, 18, and Yvette, 16. Irma, 40, and Orestes Jr., 19, work full time in the family owned business. Yvette Peña will love going back to school in September, after spending the better part of the past year undergoing agonizing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia. Both parents say the disease was caught in the early stages of development so the outlook for a complete recovery is bright. Yvette is in remission and feeling much better. The gamut of services and equipment we provide will satisfy all your site preparation and hauling needs. To say that Orestes Peña has overcome long odds to achieve considerable success in the trucking business is the ultimate understatement. Peña’s first job was at Easy Lift in North Hollywood where he worked as a welder. A year later, with business very slow, he was laid off. That end was to be the beginning of a trucking career. “I went to Tampa in October of 1973 to visit a friend of my dad who had a 10 wheel dump truck. He showed me a check for $572 that he made in one week. I was only making $172 a week in California. So I bought my first truck on October13, 1973 in Lakeland Florida, and I started working like a maniac.” In 1974, business was bad enough in Florida to prompt Peña to move back to California. “Little by little, I found trucking work. Then one day I met a fellow by the name of Jim Grondyke. In April 1974, he started giving me some business. When the other guys didn’t want to go to Santa Barbara because it was too far, I went. I went anywhere he sent me. The Northridge earthquake got Peña’s trucking company off to a fast start this year. He ran 30-40 trucks for Penhall’s I-10 demolition. He’s worked on the 5 and 118 for Penhall and Reyes Construction & Security Paving, respectively. Peña has 30 trucks working with Cleveland Demolition at Sherman Oaks Galleria and Bullocks at Northridge Fashion Center. And that’s just a partial list of his recent activity. Peña, now 45, still lives in North Hollywood ­ in one of six houses he owns in that city with Irma, his wife of 21 years, son Ortestes Jr., an daughters, Yesenia, 18, and Yvette, 16. Irma, 40, and Orestes Jr., 19, work full time in the family owned business. Yvette Peña will love going back to school in September, after spending the better part of the past year undergoing agonizing chemotherapy treatments for leukemia. Both parents say the disease was caught in the early stages of development so the outlook for a complete recovery is bright. Yvette is in remission and feeling much better. The gamut of services and equipment we provide will satisfy all your site preparation and hauling needs. The gamut of services and equipment we provide will satisfy all your site preparation and hauling needs. The gamut of services and equipment we provide will satisfy all your site preparation and hauling needs.