Carmen DeBerry is a newly-minted commercial delivery driver in Baltimore, Maryland. She says having this new job has completely changed her life. “It feels awesome,” she said. “You know, I take care of my daughter, and I also take care of my mother.”
The commercial driver’s license, like the type DeBerry got at the Community College of Baltimore County, can cost up to $7,500, money she didn’t have – which is where four kind of unlikely guys from the Bay Area stepped in.
Yes, we are talking about the guys from the band Metallica, one of the most commercially successful bands of all time, with more than 180 million records sold. “I mean, to be honest, I didn’t know when I first signed up that it was through Metallica; they just called it a scholarship,” DeBerry said…