Eastern Diesel & Auto Wrecker Service in Bonifay Florida History

Eastern Diesel & Auto Wrecker Service Inc. 



Eastern Diesel is a family owned business that has been around for over 22 years. Chuck and Liddie moved to Florida in 1990. Chuck began working at a very young age still in grade school for a dairy. Chuck is an Air Force Veteran of four years where he learned and gained experience as a generator mechanic in Alaska and helping with the SR71 mission support team. Chuck also worked hard to achieve his private pilot license during his time in the service.  Prior to living in Florida Chuck had 11 years of experience as a field service mechanic where he rapidly excelled and took a management role at Cummins in Rialto, California. He also worked at Associated Diesel in California for about 5 years.  He then helped build a towing business for one year in California that became very successful as well.  He also has four years of college.  Liddie and Chuck bought the business location on highway 90 soon after moving to Florida, where Chuck started working on semi vehicles and other large scale vehicles. Liddie did the administration and handled all the duties required to keep the business going.  The name was Eastern Diesel and Auto Repair when it was first started on Hwy 90.  Then Chuck and Liddie decided in the year of 1998 to start a towing business at the location 2005 S. Waukesha St. near the interstate and started renting out the other location.  The new company name then became Eastern Diesel & Auto Wrecker Service Inc.  The business is located within a wonderful community known as Bonifay, Florida.  They grew pretty quickly into a much larger business that it is today.  Kimbra Roberts one of their two youngest twin daughters is now managing the office. Kimbra Roberts holds a bachelors in Aviation management and a minor in safety and a Master’s degree in Aeronautical science and safety.  She also has her private pilots license and worked at a couple of airports in the area. They have wonderful and caring employees that currently help to support the business by being available to work any time of the day or night 7 days a week.  The business would also not be possible without the wonderful community and the customers that choose them as their towing company. 

Founder of the company Liddie and Chuck (husband and wife) at 
Niagara Falls 

Liddie and Chuck at the Sun and Fun in Orlando below 

Alaska

Took years of hard work

Chuck doing some paperwork

The regular hardworking dirty uniforms

Chuck on a call with Big Blue

Teaching various employees new skills they can carry throughout their lives

One of the service trucks

Kimbra and her Father Chuck 

Driving in the community parade each year

Chuck and his grandson William 

Chuck 

Chuck built this to ride on in the community parade

One of the rollbacks 

One of the service trucks the employees use

One of the many accidents on the roads 

Our 50 Ton Rotator

One of our first Large Wreckers 

Chuck, Kimbra, Will, and Collin 

Another recent photo at the Sun and Fun Chuck and Kimbra flew to with Will and Collin Roberts 

Chuck at age 70 working a big rig call 

Chuck and his two other grand kids Lily and Blake 

Their son Daniel who is a Fuel Systems Reliability Leader for Cummins Inc., Chuck and Daniel and  Daniels beautiful and intelligent wife Arliss 

All the grandkids except baby Amelia pictured below 

Their son Michael who works for Lockheed Martin for the Advanced Development programs ADP called the Skunk Works in Palmdale California as a Flight Operations Inspector and his beautiful and intelligent wife Carolina, and their sweet grand daughter Sophia 

Daniel and the new grand baby Amelia 

Their son Daniel, daughter in law Arliss and two grand kids Ethan and Amelia

The whole family just missing John and Baby Amelia

Chuck and Daniel working hard many years ago

Kimbra and Chuck both pilots flying together

Liddie and Chuck with Daniel, Kimbra, and Will and Collin 

Old photo of the family while living in California

Daniel and his family