Hall Of Fame

The first Hall of Fame class, inducted in 1986, consisted of 27 members from six countries: Australia, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, United Kingdom and United States. Industry professionals came together and selected individuals who made a difference. To honor those chosen few, the Friends of Towing (now ITRHFM) dedicated an entire section of the museum’s walls for portraits of the inductees.

Today the Hall of Fame has grown to include over 350 distinguished towing professionals with members from:

Australia
Belgium
Canada
Finland
France
Germany

Ireland
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Scotland

South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
Wales

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HALL OF FAME NOMINEE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Tow Equipment/Product Innovation

Innovation of a product sold in the marketplace that has helped move the industry forward. Candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of service to the industry.

Exemplary Dedication

Candidate must have 20 years running a towing business in an outstanding and exemplary manner, promoting a positive image of the towing industry and have positive relations with the community, i.e., performing services for the community about and beyond the services for hire. Limit: One inductee per year.

Industry Leadership

Leadership involved with an outstanding project that has had a dynamic and lasting effect on the towing industry. Candidate must have minimum 10 years service to the towing industry.

Professional Achievement

Creating a product or service of any kind that has had a significant and lasting effect on thousands of towing professionals. Candidate Must have a minimum of 10 years to the industry.

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Robert J. Driscoll

Robert Driscoll first entered the towing industry in 1958 and owns and-operates Driscoll's Towing Service, Inc. of Pompano Beach. One of his primary goals is to improve the… Read More

Ralph H. Reavis

In 1928, Ralph Reavis went into business as Auto Parts and Electric and sold his first automotive wrecker that same year. During his fifty years in business, he… Read More

Jerry L. Bullock

Jerry first became involved in the Towing and Recovery business in 1965 as a driver. Two years later he went to work for Nelson Towing and two short… Read More

Helen Sue Jones

Helen Jones is one of those thousand wives who furnished what their husbands needed to become a success. But she did not stop there. She designed and built… Read More

Gustav A. Neeb

In 1960 Gustav Neeb started his own enterprise in the tow care and crane hire services. Twenty-seven years ago, he joined with several friends and associates to form… Read More

Frank Howard Eley, Jr.

Frank was educated in technical writing and photography. He joined the Ernest Holmes Company in 1969 after spending 18 years in the aero-space industry. Frank has a strong… Read More

Arnold Thomas Hughes

In 1970 Arnold Hughes purchased a small garage and, in the process, acquired two hand crank Harvey Frost wrecker cranes. Assisted by his brother Roger, they went on… Read More

Ann Mary Malcolm

Ann Malcolm was one half of a typical man and wife partnership that went into the service station and towing business in the postwar years. Together, she and… Read More

Woodrow Herring

Woodrow W. Herring, Jr., or "Woody" started in towing in 1958, working in his father's business which was founded in 1941. Woody's children represent the third generation in… Read More

William W. Coxon

Bill Coxon first entered the towing industry in 1962 through a service station he operated on the outskirts of Windsor. A year later he began to develop commercial… Read More

Ted Durig

October 2, 1972, Ted Durig purchased Sandy's Towing of Dayton, Ohio which he has expanded from four trucks to a fleet of thirty, including heavy duty and air… Read More

Ronald Grice

Perhaps Ron Grice was the one of the first, if not the very first, to adapt hydraulic design concepts to the towing and recovery industry. Some of his… Read More