OOIDA on the Road

Where you can find us

OOIDA Life Member Ron Mermis and his NASCAR simulator are at the TA in Jackson, GA. That’s located at Exit 201 off Interstate 75.

OOIDA’s Tour Truck, The Spirit of the American Trucker, will be at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck show. The big event takes place May 17th through the 19th at the Joplin, MO, Speedco. That’s located at Exit 11 off Interstate 44.

Ron and his simulator will join the Spirit at SuperRigs. And don’t forget, you can join OOIDA for a discount at either truck.

For more information about the simulator, click here.

Air date: May 17, 2012.

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Week of Dec. 8-12

 

A special thank you to all the truckers across the United States who this week dug deep during the worst economy of our lifetimes, all in an effort to help America’s soldiers.

 

We’d like to express our appreciation to the guests and other folks featured on our program this past week, including:

 

  • The members of our armed forces who offered their stories:
    • Valerie Brown,
    • Andrew Phelps,
    • Dennis DeForest,
    • Jerry Andrew,
    • Sean Parker,
    • Tonya Harrington,
    • Dwayne Guenther,
    • Russell Pierce,
    • William Peterson,
    • Martin Neier,
    • Whitney Parks,
    • Shane Zeysing
    • and Bill Halbrook.
  • OOIDA members
    • Bob Esler,
    • Howard Salmon,
    • Johnny Reed,
    • Don Turkelson,
    • Kenneth Borgmeyer
    • and Jeffrey Brown.  
  • Friend and family of soldiers, including Connie Fifer and Lana Cramer.
  • OOIDA staff member and every soldier’s mom, Connie Beacraft;
  • Country Music Singer Aaron Tippin;
  • Sylvia Dodson, supervisor of OOIDA’s Membership Department;
  • Kade, Jake and Samantha Jones, the children of Land Line Magazine’s Jami Jones;
  • Rod Nofziger, Mike Joyce and Laura O’Neill of OOIDA’s Washington, DC, office;
  • Candidates for alternate positions on the OOIDA Board of Directors:
    • Dale Wiederholt,
    • Henry Albert,
    • Jack McComb,
    • Gary Carr,
    • Louis Esposito
    • and DuWayne Marshall.
  • Gilles Bisson, a member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament;
  • Dallas lawyer Lloyd Ward;
  • David Strayer, a researcher at the University of Utah;
  • And all of you who called our listener comment line.

Special thanks to the other radio programs who aided our effort, including:

 

  • Dave Nemo,
  • Dale Sommers, the Truckin’ Bozo,
  • Rollye James,
  • Evan Lockridge on Sirius’ Road Dog Channel,
  • the Loading Dock on our sister station Road Dog,
  • and Steve Sommers on WLW, XM 173.

Our Truckers for Troops Telethon On-Air Team includes Mark Reddig, Reed Black, Terry Scruton, Jami Jones and Charlie Morasch.

 

Your Telethon phone calls were answered by members of the OOIDA Membership, Switchboard, Data Maintenance and Truck Support departments.

 

A huge round of applause to OOIDA staff members Scott O’Dell and Marsha Diedrick, who read letters of thanks we received from soldiers overseas.

 

Our theme music is performed by Webb Wilder and his band out of Nashville, TN.

 

And we’d like to thank the members of the Land Line Magazine staff, who write and research stories used on the program, including:

 

  • Managing Editor Sandi Soendker;
  • Senior Editor Jami Jones
  • State Legislative Editor Keith Goble;
  • Staff writers David Tanner, Clarissa Kell-Holland and Charlie Morasch;
  • Copy editor Elizabeth Andersen;
  • And news clerk Kerry Evans-Spillman.

Thanks also to the lady who keeps the trains running on time, our own traffic coordinator, Sherry Murry, as well as the elves who make our Christmas possible, Producer and Senior Sound Engineer Barry Spillman and Second Engineer James Fetzer.