While government offices, banks, schools and some businesses may well close to observe Veterans Day and honor those who served in the U.S. military, the trucking business largely keeps rolling.
That doesn't mean, however, that the industry doesn't do its part to recognize veterans. Major truck stop chains honor veterans with deals and meals, and organizations like the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association are using a portion of membership fees collected during its annual Truckers for Troops campaign to send care packages overseas to active-duty military and support veterans organizations on home soil.
Owner-operators and larger fleets also do their part to show support day-in, day-out, with patriotic graphics on their trucks and trailers. Here, catch a sampling of those doing just that. For regular Overdrive readers, some of these will look familiar, but others are appearing on our pages for the first time.
Mark and Holley O'Donnell's
Small fleet MSR Transport, owned by Rob Ahlers, two years ago received this 2022 Western Star 5700XE, which is one of Daimler Trucks' Cleveland, North Carolina plant's Ride of Pride series of patriotically decorated rigs. See and hear more about this rig
