Tag: Vietnam War

Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better

Long Haul Paul’s latest in the “Faces of the Road” series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans, out with a new record, “Church of the Blues.” As Slim puts it: “I’ve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.”

December 4, 2018

Trucking History

Vietnam gives first-hand appreciation of trucking

Overdrive Equipment Editor John Baxter learned to drive a 5-ton truck in Vietnam, a country whose war he recalls vividly.

May 27, 2011

Trucking History

Veterans Day rewind: Mail-call memories from Vietnam

Retired owner-operator Doug Fetterly’s first job out of high school, in 1966, was with the Fourth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

November 8, 2010