Tag: memorial

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Remembering Arline Bennett, ‘a pillar of the trucking community’
Bennett's indelible mark on scads of grassroots groups and organizers can't be overstated. She passed one week ago today. Funeral services are set for Dec. 19.
December 14, 2020
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‘Riding high’: Billy ‘Robinhood’ Blade’s memory honored by his son
Short and simple, but no less meaningful. “Billy ‘Robinhood’ Blade went home to the Lord on October 13, 2018,” his son James Blade wrote. “May he ride high till we meet again.”
October 31, 2018
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Chuck Timbrook’s new memorial addition to the Black Out veterans-support rig
The last several months have been eventful for Chuck Timbrook. Since my last update after his heart surgery last fall, his doctor told him that “my commercial driving days are done,” he says. But it hasn’t stopped his work on the Black Out military tribute Freightliner, with several new additions.
April 25, 2017
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Bob ‘Cowpoke’ Martin passes on
It is with sadness I bring news to you today of a longtime operator’s passing. Though it’s been years since I spoke to him — and then only briefly — the memory of the conversations I had with Indiana-based Bob Martin (on the occasion of his win of the 2007 $50,000 truck makeover on the […]
October 11, 2011
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Former Overdrive editor, actor Charles Napier passes on
Character actor and former Overdrive editor Charles Napier passed away at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Napier’s perhaps best known for his role as one of the Good Old Boys in the Blues Brothers film as well as an intelligence officer in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Rambo: First Blood Part II. […]
October 7, 2011
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