Something I don’t rap about here is what we are and, more importantly what this club, isn’t.
Founding members and sponsors know the history and most of , but not all know the foundation that was the original reason why our men and a few women of valor assembled in the first place.
The Knytes-of-Anarchy was created on the rock foundation of the Hazzard County Knytes, that most understand. But what is less understood, is the fact that outside of ten of us assembled inside what was once the Polish Palace , now the Snake River Grill, that outside of those 10, the rest of the membership in the region were members of something we , rather myself, My dad and a few others put together in 1973 as the then, TeenAge Truckers Association which was a combination rural farm truck career 4-H program and a pilot 4-H program based on the idea of teaching youngsters how to use a CB, Radio properly, and how that use can benefit others, in a community and the community of the highway, mainly OTR(Over,The,Road ) long haul truckers.
At the time was a similar group backed in part by what was then a cousin to Diesel Drivers International that also had as a subsidiary a group called REACT, which stands for Radio,Emergency,Action,Communications,Team.
So getting back on the road here, The TeenAge Truckers Association brought together a little group called the JR-14 CB Club, and in 1976 combined to create the overall organization , based in part on what had been founded by Mike Parkhurst , founder and publisher of the original OVERDRIVE magazine. This is important here to remember. Because it was on Overdrive’s pages that , created thereon was the DateMaster section that took a classy lady, and an even home grown rig, and a beautiful background and it was truly classy without being trashy. This is where and why we in the TeenAge Truckers, started finding models etc to feature with some of the classier OTR rigs and yes toew trucks in our area.
It was 1977 I had from going to school there , found an old high school radio station, KLHS at Lewiston High School. I had a study hall in the classroom where this radio station was at, and from previous years in my life’s road was the only one in that classroom with an FCC license.
I got a 45 minute show at 11:00AM to 12:00PM and I could go as far as another hour through lunch.
I found a bunch of music that was donated 45’s and most of it was old kountry music and 80% of that contained old trucker music, from Red Simpson, Red Sovine, and others, Dave Duddley, and so on.
So I started a thing called Maximum Overdrive, Radio. Preached the teachings of the TeenAge Truckers Association and the combining of my two loves, trucks, trucking, and radio came to being.
This went on until May 1978, when after getting my first toew truck that is still the base of what I run now, I found that there was nothing talking toewing on the radio.
No matter how I begged and pleaded could I get a local radio station at the time to go along with such a far reach of such a show. So I pitched the idea of a overnight on the weekend OTR trucker program, to then KLIX GM and Owner Charley Tuma. He said if I could find 4 advertisers to back it , he’d let me do it, My Dad put up some money, from his mini farm hauling business, another ag based trucking company in Hagerman put up some money and the result was Maximum Overdrive was on the air.
Not too long after was a movie by the same name. By this time Hazzard Fever had infected me, so I thought of a name that would work, and in 1983 just shortly after my Mom passed away, by then on our own radio station in Hagerman that started as KDSL that became KTOW , the program , Dixie Diesel Radio took to the air.
Now then to bring this in, on this early morning.
In 2006 by the time I had made it back to Idaho here, I had found that many of our Hazzard County Knytes had moved elsewhere, both northern Idaho as well as out of state.
So I sat down with a few of our founding members at the Boise Stage Stop, and it was decided to pull out or at least away, a bit from all the Hazzard County thing and rebuild on what we started with as then the TeenAge Truckers Association that became in 1988 the United American Independent Truckers Association, kind of a rebuild of the ITA, that story next entry, but getting on here.
The Knytes-of-Anarchy was created to not, REPEAT, NOT be a BIKERS CLUB, but a group of us wanting to retain and restore the ideas of the golden days of trucking. While still keeping the Hazzard thing involved but more of on a stealth basis.
In October 2008 The Knytes-of-Anarchy was born at a trucker party held at then Shorty’s Saloon in Garden City a sub town of Boise.
The only similarity between us and a BIKERS CLUB , is the name ANARCHY, by the same token, Truckers at least owner/operator types, are of the same affections, a clean tricked out rig, in our case a chromed out Peterbilt or Kenworth, a full load of fuel in our tanks, open dry good road, and are very much anti establishment, anti social types, who don’t do a suit & tie, don’t do a supervisor although its getting more these days with DOT mandating black boxes and in truck cameras monitoring our every move, and that damn GPS telling our shippers and so on our every mile, but still Truckers are in essence bikers, with a hell of a lot more steel and more wheels.
With XMSirius satellite, many of those late night over the road trucker radio shows went up to the sky, and no longer are on terrestrial or standard radio. Even fewer on AM.
Many in our organization saw this coming in 1994. In 1995 the then Hazzard County Knytes through our brothers in the UAITA, and regional subsidiary the Rode Knytes Association bought the remains of what was the Interstate Radio Network or IRN. From a small radio station in Price Utah KOAL, Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio was reborn, in 1998. Sponsored by the real Dixie Diesel Shop, not Dixie diesel service of St.George Utah. But the Dixie Diesel Shop of then Price, Spanish Fork, and Murray Utah, as well as the Dixie Diesel Shop of Preston, Malad, Blackfoot, Pocatello, and of course Tuttle Idaho.
There’s much more and I’ll be going into this further in days to come on our sister blog Dixie Diesel Tymez, (www.dixiedieseltymez.blogspot.com) HazzardAyre continues that tradition of Dixie Diesel Trucker Radio from midnight to 6:00AM .
What that is and all in my next entry.
L8R Ya’ll
Quote of the Day:
Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.
--Peter McArthur
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