A plow truck driver in Colorado. Hallorann loses control of his rental car when he passes Howard Cottrell’s plow on a snowy road on the way to the Overlook Hotel and buries his car in the snow. Howard pulls Hallorann’s car out of the snow with his plow truck, and even offers Hallorann his mittens so Hallorann doesn’t freeze to death the next time he gets stuck. Hallorann tells Howard that he must get to the Overlook Hotel because Jack has gone insane and Wendy and Danny are in danger, and even though Howard knows there isn’t anyway Hallorann can know that (the phones are down and they aren’t in range of the hotel’s CB), Howard believes him. Howard “gets feelins,” he tells Hallorann. When Hallorann says he gets feelings, too, Howard says he already knows. Howard tells Hallorann to see Larry Durkin in Sidewinder about a snowmobile and to drop his name for a special rate. Without Howard’s kindness and “shine,” Larry Durkin likely wouldn’t have agreed to help Hallorann. Like Delores Vickery and the sour-faced woman, Howard Cottrell is an example of “shining” or intuiting others’ feelings and needs in the novel, and he illustrates how shines are drawn to other shines.