Actor was former trucker, Overdrive writer

Oct 7, 2011

Charles Napier, who died Oct. 5, was a former trucker who was an Overdrive columnist in the early 1970s and appeared in several trucking movies and TV shows.

Read more about his trucking connections in this Overdrive Retro feature and this recent post to the Channel 19 blog.

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