From the editor: An extra-special edition of Overdrive Radio this week, handing the mic over to our own Long Haul Paul and, setting the scene in story from Large Cars & Guitars last month in Bristol, Tennessee, another of Overdrive's own in regular contributor Bobbi McGee. Hear LHP's take in the podcast, and read on for profiles of three elite truckers by McGee.
The MC was emphatic. “Seven million safe miles doesn’t happen by accident,” Charles Gracey said. “That’s not luck. It’s discipline, sacrifice, grit, and an unwavering commitment to doing the job right when nobody is watching.”
Sirius XM personalties Gracey and Ron “Stray Dog” Witherspoon were there to honor those miles, that grit, that commitment. Three haulers joined them on the stage: Mike “Cow Chip” Brown, “Tennessee Trash” Eddie Parrish and Candy Bass, known as the “Glitter Granny.”
But Gracey wasn’t talking about a collective 7M miles between them. These three have taken it one mile at a time toward a collective 21M.
Singer-songwriter Tony Justice, who organizes and promotes Large Cars & Guitars, called them heroes, legends, inspirations. “These men and women on stage with us now are the very definition of all those things,” he said. “They stand as a testament to what true old-school trucking values were built on.”
Candy “Glitter Granny” Bass is no passenger princess.
