I received a couple of phone calls from drivers on Tuesday, Sept. 2, to relay the news that Jerry Reed had died at age 71. It was the first time in my eight years at Truckers News that someone called ...

Jerry Reed, 71, a Grammy Award-winning country guitarist, singer and songwriter who played a mischievous, good old boy sidekick to Burt Reynolds in "Smokey and the Bandit" and other movies, died Sept.