Earl R. Buske
Served in Pacific Theater for US Navy 1941-1945 Chicago Tech 1945-1948
East Side Top and Body, Pocahontas, Iowa 1949-1956
E.R. Buske Manufacturing Co., Inc.
1957 to present
Earle Buske is a member of Iowa Association of Business and Industry, Iowa Auto Dealers Association, Truck Body Equipment Association, National Truck Equipment Assoc., Towing Equipment Manufacturers Association, Kentucky Colonels, Tennessee Squires, T.R.A.A., and Friends of Towing.
The Buske family is well-known in the trade as a closely knit unit, with three of their four children, a son-on-law and a daughter-in-law working full time in the family business with Earl and Mary Ann. The Company has always been known as the supplier of quality products, offering a full line for every need of the towing and recovery business.
The family proudly displays its equipment at shows, domestic and foreign, and the name Buske is always up front in support of all elements of the industry.
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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.