Jim Winsor’s staff photo from a late ’70s edition of CCJ, then called the Commercial Car Journal.James D. Winsor, who headed multiple trucking industry trade publications over a career that spanned five decades, died Tuesday, April 7. He was 82 years old.
Winsor worked in the trucking trade press for more than 50 years, working as the top editor of several of the industry’s major publications, including the Commercial Carrier Journal and Heavy-Duty Trucking.
He started at CCJ in 1957 and worked his way up to the magazine’s editor in chief position, where he stayed until 1983. He left CCJ then to become the executive editor of Heavy-Duty Trucking.
He was also an active member of ATA’s Technology & Maintenance Council.
John Baxter, former senior editor of CCJ, worked with Winsor at CCJ in the early 1980s. “Jim was one of a devoted minority of magazine writers who truly understood the technology and loved it, as well as the challenge of driving trucks. He was a truly great asset to our industry, and he’ll be sorely missed.”
