
Longtime HDT sales representative Bill Madden died peacefully on Sept. 20 after an unexpected battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 65.
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Well-known trucking writer and former HDT executive editor Steve Sturgess has died.
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HDT Truck Fleet Innovator Vic La Rosa, co-founder and CEO of Total Transportation Services Inc., has died after a battle with lung cancer.
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Norman Mineta, the former U.S. Secretary of Transportation who was key in the formation of a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, died May 3 at age 90.
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Al Cohn, a well-known figure in the commercial tire industry, passed away April 28 following complications in a long battle with cancer.
Read More →James N. (Jim) Hutchinson, who was chief executive officer of Heavy Duty Trucking and its parent company Newport Communications Group for eight years, died Sept. 24 in Newport Beach, California, following a heart attack.
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Bill Mack, whose Midnight Cowboy Trucking Show overnight program on Texas clear channel WBAP-AM entertained truckers for decades, died July 31 at age 88, according to published reports.
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"Fiercely dedicated to improving the trucking industry," Laura McMillan, vice president of training development at Instructional Technologies Inc., is dead at age 56.
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Raymond J. Zukowski, who spent 60 years growing Euclid Industries into a leading provider of heavy-duty aftermarket parts before it was sold to Meritor, recently died at age 91.
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T. Boone Pickens Jr., famous oil tycoon turned evangelist for alternative fuels and American energy independence, has died at the age of 91 of natural causes.
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