Trucker who was on ‘Survivor’ back home in driver’s seat

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Updated Dec 8, 2018
“Tribal Lines Are Blurred” – Jeff Probst extinguishes Carl Boudreaux’s torch at Tribal Council on the eleventh episode of SURVIVOR: David vs. Goliath on the CBS Television Network. (Photo: Screen Grab/CBS Entertainment©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)“Tribal Lines Are Blurred” – Jeff Probst extinguishes Carl Boudreaux’s torch at Tribal Council on the eleventh episode of SURVIVOR: David vs. Goliath on the CBS Television Network. (Photo: Screen Grab/CBS Entertainment©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

For 17 years Carl Boudreaux has been a truck driver, much of that time as an owner/operator hauling a chemical tanker in Houston.

Carl Boudreaux competed the 37th season of CBS’ “Survivor.” (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Entertainment ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)Carl Boudreaux competed the 37th season of CBS’ “Survivor.” (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS Entertainment ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

But, recently Boudreaux was a TV star. He was one of 20 contestants on the current season of the CBS hit reality show Survivor.

That is until he was voted off the island by other competitors.

Boudreaux is back home and back in the driver’s seat of his 2019 Volvo hauling freight.

The Truckers News Podcast had the opportunity to chat recently, and Boudreaux talked about coming from a family of truckers, hauling chemicals in Houston and about what it was like to compete on Survivor.

Carl Boudreaux, Kara Kay, Davie Rickenbacker and Mike White on the eleventh episode of SURVIVOR: David vs. Goliath. (Photo: Screen Grab/CBS Entertainment ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)Carl Boudreaux, Kara Kay, Davie Rickenbacker and Mike White on the eleventh episode of SURVIVOR: David vs. Goliath. (Photo: Screen Grab/CBS Entertainment ©2018 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)