He rolled onto campus with a steady rumble at 6:25 a.m. Wednesday, just as a hint of blue began to infuse itself into the black early morning sky.
Keith Preyer was moving the ball — and every other piece of equipment the UCLA football team needed. He’s been trucking the Bruins in his 18-wheeler for the past eight years, to games home and away.
“He’s never not made it,” said Brendan Burger, UCLA’s equipment manager.
That includes the roughly 5,100-mile round trip from Westwood to Charlottesville, Va., for a game against Virginia, an overheated engine that forced a three-hour delay on a 114-degree Arizona day on the way to College Station, Texas, or the faulty tail lights that required a mechanic in Salt Lake City.