Volunteer retires from veteran transportation service

SUPERIOR – The service that drives veterans to and from medical appointments and is a vital county resource may be looking for a new volunteer soon as one of their volunteers recently retired from his role as driver for the Disabled American Services.

Doug Cummings, himself a Navy veteran who served on a destroyer during the Korean War, recently retired from a job helping veterans he had held for the last two and a half years. Cummings said he was happy to serve the Disabled American Veterans transportation service.

Cummings said he has been driving for the service for a little over two years.

“There were about eight or ten of us that started it,” Cummings said. “We didn’t have a van for a long time. They really needed volunteers. In order to have a van we needed to have about ten people. I really enjoyed it.”

Cummings said he would’ve liked to keep driving and helping veterans reach their medical appointments but there is an age limit he reached that prohibits him from continuing to volunteer.

“It’s too bad,” Cummings said. “I probably could’ve kept driving for a few years. But there are rules.”

Cummings said, during his tenure with the DAV transportation service, he logged over 500 hours of driving.