Bus driver chauffeured celebrities while collecting CTA disability checks
October 05, 2012 @ 9:53 AM
CTA bus driver Derronald “Ron” Ward had a heart attack in 2010, stopped working and started receiving disability payments. But while off work, Ward continued his side job moonlighting as a celebrity tour bus driver — even chauffeuring rapper Diddy and other big-time clients — as part of a second career he now readily fesses up to. “If they need a bus, they will call me personally,” Ward says of clients like Ray J, Brandy and Chris Brown, who he refers to as “friends.” “ … Puffy and 2 Chainz, they have readjusted their whole schedule until I become free.” …