Tag: memorials

Custom Rigs
A closer look at the ‘Memorial Run’ firefighter-tribute CEI 2018 KW T680
It’s a truly remarkable unit, and with greater urgency present as fires intensify, particularly out West, a fitting tribute to all who give themselves to protecting the rest of us.
December 5, 2018
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Memorial site remembers longtime broker Allen Lund
Allen Lund passed away on April 7, 2018. In memorial, a website has been set up with videos and images. Click for more on the life of Allen Lund on Overdrive.
May 16, 2018
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Custom Rigs
‘BlackGold’ scale memorial Mack, Cecil Spurlock’s son and family’s tribute to the Kentucky coal hauler
The 1/25th scale model of Spurlock’s 1981 Mack DM 800 coal hauler is their way of honoring his legacy. When Spurlock passed in 2012, says his son David, he was buried “with his Mack cap on his head, and a coal miner on his grave stone with a pick and shovel on his shoulder, showing where he came from.”
April 19, 2018
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Voices
Thoughts on Veterans Day 2015
“Every day is Veterans Day” for many former members of the U.S. Armed Forces and “it’s not always a celebration.” Wendy here highlights testimony from one, and a tribute from a reader.
November 11, 2015
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Nov. 22: National Fallen Truckers Memorial Day
Spearheaded by driver Dave Lippert, the both on- and off-line event is intended to honor and remember “all our fellow drivers and families,” according to the main online hub for the event on Facebook.
October 14, 2014
For the online portion of the event, organizers are asking participants to “change their profile pic [on Facebook] to the RFT Ribbon for the week of this event or” the entire month of November.
Business
A memorial to my brother
The story of 1LT James Lyons’ death in military combat in Iraq, told in the voice of Wendy Parker’s brother, SGT Lehi Benton.
May 26, 2014
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Bobby Bright’s final ride: June 15, 1945-Oct. 10, 2012
Remembering Virginia-based hauler Bobby Bright, memorialized by his son Robert with a final big-rig ride to his final resting place October 16, 2012, at Madison Garden Cemetery in Madison, Va.
October 23, 2012
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A wife’s tribute to her longtime owner-operator
Owner-operator Clive Hemmings passed away during a run to Florida on September 30, 2011. His wife, Valerie, offers up this poem to his memory. He will be missed.
September 24, 2012
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