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Tag: These Trucks Are Made of Gold
Channel 19
New vids from owner-operator/songwriter Howard Salmon
I caught up with Howard Salmon at the TA in downtown Nashville a couple weeks back now â itâd been more than a year since the last time weâd been able to meet up, and he had much to tell. His independent trucking business, hauling in a 1999 Kenworth W900 with a reefer and loading [âŚ]
December 26, 2011
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New vid for âI am the flag,â by Ron Terry
On this Veteranâs Day, a new video care of owner-operator Howard Salmon â the tune, âI am the flag,â appears on his and Ron Terryâs âThese Trucks Are Made of Goldâ record and consists of a somber reading of the Terry poem by the poet himself. As its title suggests, itâs a poetic narrative of [âŚ]
November 11, 2011
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Owner-operators remembering Chance Rogers at GATS
A fixture at truck shows for years with his owner-operator grandfather Jim Rogers, leased to Fikes, young Chance Rogers passed away July 11 after a long battle with bone cancer. Several owner-operators and drivers have banded together in the Truckers United for Charities group to honor Chance by raising money for a memorial fund in [âŚ]
August 23, 2011
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Complimentary advertisement⌠and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC
Driver with a lens-load of cool Itâs been a few months since we checked in with on-road crooner Howard Salmon, so he checked in with us, sending along this picture he happened upon recently, with a pre-emptive answer to the obvious question. Yes indeedy, he wrote, âI am also sending this to Geico Insurance.â He [âŚ]
October 8, 2010
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Convoy for a Cure events get rolling this month.
September 1, 2010
Channel 19
New âgold trucksâ vid from owner-operator Howard Salmon
Remember that little mention I made a few weeks back about my serendipitous meeting with past Overdrive Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon (pictured), the one where I talked about participating in a bit of a video experiment with him singing at the fuel island (I held the camera, donât worry; he did all the [âŚ]
August 9, 2010
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âThere Is a Cureâ â new song written for breast-cancer-awareness convoy
Itâs coming up Oct. 16, 2010, following the success of last yearâs inaugural U.S. event in Texas. At the TravelCenters of America location in Terrell, Texas, on I-20 at exit 503, the Convoy for a Cure for breast cancer will bring together truck drivers for a good cause, keeping alive and spreading the tradition of the initial 2008 convoy of [âŚ]
July 9, 2010
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Owner-operatorâs record hits Roots Music charts
Iâll bet Overdrive October 2009 Trucker of the Month Howard Salmon, an independent you may likewise remember from a couple posts (here and here) late last year about his part in the Convoy for a Cure festivities in Texas, is having a good old time watching news of all the snow folks all over the country are suffering [âŚ]
February 11, 2010
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