The culture's moved soft. Trucking didn't. It still asks for the same long hours, the same time away, the same grit it always did — and most of the country has stopped doing work like it. The 180 Club is for the drivers who haven't. Six months in the seat we matched you to. That's the proof.
The culture's moved soft. Everything's chased toward easier, faster, frictionless — and most jobs followed. Trucking didn't. The hours are long, the road is unforgiving, the time away from family is real, and the work still demands something of the people who do it. Purpose. Perseverance. The kind of grit that gets the job done when nothing about the day made it easy.
Old Drum is built around that fact. We put drivers in seats where the work matches the life — pay, lanes, dispatch, home time, the kind of equipment you want to spend a year of your life in. We do the homework upfront so the seat holds. And when it does — when a driver makes 180 days at the placement we put them in — that's proof of both things at once. That you have what it takes to do work the rest of the world has stopped doing. And that you found the seat where it's worth doing.
Work the rest of the world has stopped doing.
The 180 Club is the recognition for it. Real gear. A donation to a combat veteran doing his own hard thing. And a standing seat on our call list whenever you need a next move. Loyalty goes both ways.
When a driver completes Day 180, two things happen. You pick your premium Day 180 kit from a short list only 180 Club members ever see. And we send $180 in your name to the One-Eighty Out Campaign at Heroes & Horses — funding a combat veteran through 41 days in the Montana backcountry that rebuild a life from the ground up.
Pick from our curated lineup — the Yeti travel rig, the cab cooler, the snack box, the Pelican cargo hold, the engraved Benchmade, the Carhartt winter run, or the Saddleback leather Dopp. Real brands. Real road use. Each kit branded with the Old Drum mark. Yours to keep.
See The Kits →A $180 donation in your name to the One-Eighty Out Campaign at Heroes & Horses — a combat veteran nonprofit founded by a former Navy SEAL. The program puts combat veterans through 41 days of horsemanship, wilderness, physical challenge, and the hardest internal work most will ever do. Healing through challenge. No shortcuts.
Learn About One-Eighty Out →Six months in the seat. Forty-one days in the saddle. One milestone connects them.
Veterans face a harder battle when the uniform comes off than they often did in service. Old Drum is veteran-owned and stands with the veteran community across the board. Every Day 180 triggers a $180 donation in the driver's name to Heroes & Horses. We support the organizations below year-round.
Founded by former Navy SEAL Micah Fink. Heroes and Horses puts combat veterans through a 41-day wilderness rite of passage in the Montana backcountry — horsemanship, physical challenge, digital detox, no shortcuts.
Their flagship fundraising effort — The One-Eighty Out Campaign — is building a permanent home for this work in Montana. Every Old Drum driver who completes Day 180 triggers a $180 donation in their name to this campaign.
Get placed through Old Drum. Stay the course. The recognition is real.