Alan Jones Memorial/Dick Jones Trucking Scholarship Endowment

Dick Jones purchased L.B Burger Freight Lines in 1935 and started the first freight service from Powell to Billings in establishing Dick Jones Trucking. His son Alan joined the company in 1963 and moved to Thermopolis when her acquired the Dallas Downing Trucking Company. In 1965, Alan returned to Powell where the heart of the operation was located and Dick moved to Cody to start up a new terminal.

Over the years and under Alan’s leadership, Dick Jones Trucking expanded its authority to haul within the lower 48 states and part of Canada. Later, Alan’s children, Mitch and LeAnne, joined the company as third generation management.

Alan was a fixture in Wyoming’s trucking industry serving on the Wyoming Trucking Association Board and honored with the Wyoming Trucking Association Con H. Biederman Humanitarian Award.

He died in 2021. Despite his request to have his ashes “put in the intake of a truck and blown out the stacks” he was buried. In 2022, Dick Jones Trucking was sold to Ryan Brothers Trucking from Thermopolis, ending 85 years of continuous family operation.

Alan’s children established this scholarship to honor his memory and provide a legacy to Dick Jones Trucking.