Tag: These Trucks Are Made of Gold

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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 — it’d been more than a year since the last time we’d 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 […]

December 26, 2011

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New vid for ‘I am the flag,’ by Ron Terry

On this Veteran’s Day, a new video care of owner-operator Howard Salmon — the tune, “I am the flag,” appears on his and Ron Terry’s “These Trucks Are Made of Gold” record and consists of a somber reading of the Terry poem by the poet himself. As its title suggests, it’s a poetic narrative of […]

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 […]

August 23, 2011

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Complimentary advertisement… and: PSP unlikely to be the new DAC

Driver with a lens-load of cool It’s 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, “I am also sending this to Geico Insurance.” He […]

October 8, 2010

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Convoy for a Cure events get rolling this month.

September 1, 2010

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New ‘gold trucks’ 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, don’t worry; he did all the […]

August 9, 2010

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‘There Is a Cure’ — new song written for breast-cancer-awareness convoy

It’s coming up Oct. 16, 2010, following the success of last year’s 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 […]

July 9, 2010

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Owner-operator’s record hits Roots Music charts

I’ll 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 […]

February 11, 2010