Private Story
Special delivery: Unique passion for company bonds UPS driver and Mexico teen
Brenan gets excited every time a UPS delivery arrives. His mother, Samantha Wilson, isn’t exactly sure when his love for the company began, other than the fact that his feeding supplies arrive on the truck monthly. Brenan has Cardiofaciocutaneous syndrome, which has caused him to need multiple heart surgeries and a feeding tube, among other things.“There’s not a whole lot of kids that have it,” Wilson said.
The man usually delivering those supplies is UPS delivery driver Travis Aulbur.“When I first started delivering to him, he always liked coming out and seeing me and getting the packages from me,” Aulbur said. “He would walk with me back and forth from the truck to the house and I’d just have all those conversations with him, asking him how he was doing. Aulbur’s interactions with Brenan made quite the impact. Brenan’s love for the job grew and he even got his own vehicle thanks to the creativity of Tiger Rotenburger, his mother’s boyfriend and a step-father figure to Brenan. After experimenting with a variety of boxes, Rotenburger settled on a rectangular cardboard box attached to the bike’s rear basket with zip ties. He even painted the box to match the brown coat of the UPS trucks.“Why do you like your truck?” Wilson asked her son. His response was simple. “Because it’s cool!”