'Trucker Josh' Giesbrecht building legacy for family, fellow truckers, people all around the world

Turns out Overdrive was among the first outlets to cover what he was doing way back near the start of it, as he tells it, and helped set the video blog off on a run toward a much bigger audience. The "Trucker Josh" channel's history is certainly a living one, though, as it continues as a repository of everything to landscapes and tarping tutorials, to mini rants and safety outreach, and so much more.

Josh Giesbrecht is the latest well-deserving honoree in a Hall of Fame hosted by a company regular listeners will be well aware of, Howes Products, Overdrive Radio's sponsor. (You can dive into the virtual Howes Hall of Fame, now featuring Giesbrecht, via this link.) 

Overdrive Radio's sponsor is I sat down with owner-operator Giesbrecht and Howes Executive Vice President Rob Howes II at the Mid-America Trucking Show at Giesbrecht's induction. Giesbrecht centers on this central reason for his continued, dogged pursuit of sharing the life of the over-the-road driver and truck owner day-in, day-out: "I want this to go throughout my life," he said of his daily chronicling, to be "the thing that I leave behind to my kids, my grandkids. Hopefully it's something that can earn their respect. 'He started from here, he ended here, and he did good.'"

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