Tom Meents

Tom Meents (born July 10, 1967) is a professional monster truck driver. He currently drives Maximum Destruction on the Monster Jam circuit. He has won eleven Monster Jam World Finals championships during his career (six in racing, five in freestyle).

Career

Tom Meents started out as a mud racer, driving his own vehicle, Shake Me. He had his first wreck when he rolled Shake Me over at a USHRA mud race in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He won the NMRO Open Class championship in 1992. He later teamed up with Paul Shafer to drive Shafer's Mud Patrol vehicle. Tom won the NMRO Class 5 championship in 1993 and 1994 and won the Class 6 championship in 1993. This also led to an opportunity to drive one of Shafer's Monster Patrol monster trucks, which Tom drove to a rapid rise in popularity. In one of Tom's first events in Monster Patrol, he lost control and struck a fence, trapping and fatally wounding a young man. Among his accomplishments in this truck was a victory at the USHRA U.S. Truck Fest in 1997.