REO Speedwagon

REO SPEEDWAGON in 2010 CC BY 3.0, Link

REO SPEEDWAGON REO (originally R.E.O. Speedwagon) is an American rock band that formed in Champaign, Illinois in 1967. 

Their record sales peaked and they had their biggest hits during the 1970s. The group's best-selling album is Hi Infidelity (1980), which contained four US Top 40 hits and sold more than 10 million copies. 

Over the course of their career, the band has sold more than 40 million records and has charted 13 Top 40 hits, including the number ones "Keep On Loving You" and "Can't Fight This Feeling." 

Though REO Speedwagon's record sales certainly waned in the late 1980s, the band actually remains a popular live act. The band appeared in an episode in the third season of the American TV series Ozark in 2020 and after the appearance, four of REO's songs reentered the Billboard rock charts.

A REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck at Jack Daniel's Distillery, Lynchburg, Tennessee
by Timj at Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Their name is not the initials of the band's founders. The REO Speed Wagon (alternatively Reo Speedwagon) was a light motor truck manufactured by REO Motor Car Company. It is an ancestor of the pickup truck. First introduced in 1915, production continued through at least 1953. "R.E.O." was the initials of Ransom Elliot Olds, the founder of the company and the name that later was applied to the Oldsmobile Car Company who produced an REO Speedwagon firetruck.

Badge from an REO Speed Wagon Fire Truck by Timjarrett, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link