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Overdrive Extra
He died on the road -- Remembering owner-op Mylo Heimbuch
Long Haul Paul remembers a close owner-operator friend, Mylo Heimbuch, with Mylo's wife, Tammy. Mylo passed away last week after a fight with COVID's Delta variant in Georgia on the road from his Michigan home.
September 14, 2021
Channel 19
Remembering Arline Bennett, ‘a pillar of the trucking community’
Bennett's indelible mark on scads of grassroots groups and organizers can't be overstated. She passed one week ago today. Funeral services are set for Dec. 19.
December 14, 2020
Voices
A year after his passing, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Bill Mack lives on in readers’ memories
Though he never met Mack, reader Ralph Hudson surmised the radio legend might have been "my best friend." Other memories of the 'Midnight Cowboy' here, including former Overdrive editor Max Heine's remembrance at the time of his passing one year ago.
August 11, 2020
Channel 19
Remembering Eddie Karwaski of former Penn. small fleet Apple House Trucking
Karwaski passed a year ago this past Tuesday, Feb. 26, says his daughter. Apple House Trucking closed in 2007 as the recession took hold, after having grown to a height of around 50 trucks in the early 1990s. Earlier than that, its distinctive blue/gold/white paint scheme was featured twice in Overdrive.
February 28, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Losing a long-time phone pal
Many professional drivers have a spouse or go-to friend they can call while on the road for encouragement, advice or just to shoot the bull and stay alert. For Frank Albinson, that support was his long-time friend David Stump of Newburg, Pennsylvania, who died Jan. 21.
January 29, 2019
Business
Old Spice and sunshine: Remembering Jim Johnston
“He looked like sunshine and smelled like Old Spice and Marlboro cigarettes, and he was a big deal to me.” –Wendy remembers OOIDA head Jim Johnston, who passed on at 78.
January 9, 2018
Channel 19
Remembering Carl Rhodes — with his son, Rick — after well more than a half century trucking
Rhodes was a fixture of Morgantown, W.Va.-area trucking business since his own father hauled pulpwood in a 1932 Ford. Carl passed August 14, 2020.
November 6, 2017
Trucking History
Iowa 80 Truckstop co-founder passes
Carolyn and her husband Bill leased the Iowa 80 Truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, from Standard Oil in 1965. In 1984, the Moons purchased the truck stop and built it into what they billed as the largest truck stop in the world.
May 8, 2017
Trucking History
Songwriter Kim Williams passes on at age 68
Songwriter Kim Williams, known for his work with Garth Brooks, Randy Travis and (more recently) trucker/singer-songwriter Tony Justice, died in Florida this week at age 68.
February 12, 2016
Business
Truck-driving music pioneer Red Simpson dead at 81
Red Simpson, singer-songwriter well-known for such classic trucking songs as “Roll, Truck, Roll” and “(Hello) I’m a Truck” died Friday, January 8, in Bakersfield, Calif. Simpson was 81.
January 12, 2016
Business
David Adkins — 1964-2014
David passed away on October 6. His kind and gracious wife, Shena, took the time to let George and Wendy know how much she appreciated their help with selling his Fitzgerald Freightliner glider kit truck.
October 13, 2014
Channel 19
Rest in peace: Owner-operator Don Mulder of Nebraska
Owner-operator Donald Ray Mulder of Lincoln, Neb., passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. In the 1980s he was head of the Nebraska chapter of the Independent Truckers Association.
September 10, 2013
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