Dave Rodriguez

Education Manager
WA State Certified
Commercial Truck Driving Instructor

Dave has driven in three different countries throughout his twenty-year career of commercial and military truck driving on dry vans, reefers, dump trucks with pups, side dumps, belly dumps, wreckers, lowboys, and flatbeds. He has over ten years of experience training both military personnel and commercial drivers.

Dave's Spanish fluency also makes him an incredible resource for countless bilingual students. His leadership drives our success and maximizes the potential of every one of our students. 

Gary Logan

WA State Certified
Commercial Truck Driving instructor

Gary has over fifteen years of spotless, accident-free commercial driving experience, with five years driving in the United Kingdom and ten years in the United States. He's driven a wide range of vehicles, including curtain-side trailers, refrigerated trucks, dump trucks, tractor-trailers, automated side loaders, rear loaders, front loaders, roll-offs, and containers.

His teaching style is very detail oriented and pushes every student to master all aspects of truck driving. His high standards produce the most capable and prepared drivers in the state.

Ivan Tobilko

WA State Certified
Commercial Truck Driving instructor

Ivan has five years of on-the-road experience driving all types of commercial vehicles, reefers, dry vans, passenger transport vehicles and box trucks. Ivan is also fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian, making him a valuable asset for many of our ESL students. He can explain complicated CDL concepts in a student’s native language and helps many of our students feel comfortable, confident and fully prepared to pass their CDL exam.

Ivan’s supportive and encouraging teaching style and bilingual communication makes him a key part of our strong and welcoming training team at New Sound CDL School.