Harold D. Markle
Elected: March 24, 1986
Inducted: June 26, 1986
Born: Cambridge, Ontario
Canada
Married: Lynn Bolender Markle
Children: Shannon Markle
Tracy Markle
History: Graduate, Galt Collegiate Institute
Conestoga College, Business Administration, 1968
Harold Markle Service, Inc., Founder & Owner, March 1, 1972
Kinman Wreckers International Recovery Course, March 1978
Dale Carnegie Course, 1980
M.F.C. Survival Air Lift Products, Canadian Distributor, 1980
E.K. Williams Management Institute, 1981
Developed Heavy Recovery & Air Cushion Recovery Course
and Seminars, 1981-1986
Graduate, Ontario Trucking Association, Dangerous Goods
Instructors Course, 1985
Memberships: Ontario Recovery Group, Founding Member, 1980
A.T.S., Kitchener Chapter
Friends of Towing
Ontario Trucking Association
Canadian Fire Chief’s Association
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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.