2011 May

Fleet Focus

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2011

Prime honors seven drivers for safe mileage Larry Lewis was awarded $5,000 by Prime, Inc., based in Springfield, Mo., for driving 3 million miles with no preventable accidents. Prime drivers recognized for driving 1 million accident-free ...

News

Overdriver Owner-Operator of the Month

Caroline Taylor | May 01, 2011

Keeping a Good Attitude Continuing a long career of safe driving, Gordon Johnson also serves as a Greatwide adviser to rookies. Growing up in eastern Kentucky, Gordon Johnson learned about work at an early age. He was ...

News

LogBook

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2011

Cross-border plan detailed The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s proposed cross-border trucking project with Mexico will require fewer participants and will equip Mexican trucks with electronic on-board recorders, paid for by the United States. FMCSA will respond ...

News

Marketplace — Spring Roundup

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2011

Cat offers vocational truck Caterpillar’s CT660 vocational truck isn’t merely an International Workstar with yellow paint. Caterpillar engineers say their new truck is “essentially new from the frame rails up.” The set-back axle configuration Class 8 truck ...

News

Pulse

Max Heine | May 01, 2011

Your EOBR gift to Mexico The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has won no trucker fans by planning to buy electronic onboard recorders for Mexican trucks. The agency’s intent is to monitor hours of service and ...

News

Speakout

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2011

Take time to vote, run for office With truckers being more regulated and having to pay more and more taxes, it’s important to educate the public about freight’s importance. Truckers need to vote in every election ...

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Test Drive

Jack Roberts | May 01, 2011

Bulldog’s helper Mack’s new automated manual transmission reads the road and makes the right calls to tame the Appalachian slopes. On a cold March morning, at a table overlooking the Mack and Volvo corporate campus in Greensboro, ...

Blogs

Roadside Attractions

Brooke Wisdom | May 01, 2011

Now that’s horsepower Sometimes, the best solutions are the simplest. Or that’s one way of looking at a video posted to YouTube by Joel Appleman of Ottawa, Pa., showing a tractor/tank combination pulled out of the ...