The sole jackpot-winning ticket in Saturday’s $338 million Powerball lottery was sold to a big-rig driver at a New Jersey Turnpike truck stop, according to a manager at the store.
Isaiah DeVries, of Love’s Travel Stop in Bordentown, said the trucker excitedly called up the store yesterday and said his life had changed.
“He’s sitting in his truck in Delaware,” DeVries told The Post last night.
“He is trying to figure out what to do next.”
Although Jersey state lottery officials would not name the winner — nor the store where the ticket was sold — DeVries says he verified with Powerball organizers that he did, in fact, sell the winning ticket.
The truck driver’s ticket was the only one that matched all six numbers in the drawing — 17-29-31-52-53, plus the Powerball, 31 — making him the sole winner of the gigantic payout, the fourth-largest in the lottery game’s history.
Lottery officials are set to reveal more about the jackpot in a press conference today, including, possibly, the identity of the mystery truck driver.
A lump-sum payout for the Powerball jackpot would come to about $221 million.