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Overdrive Extra
Truck stop is part of Alaska's backcountry history
Coldfoot Camp and the Dalton Highway, which runs past it, have ties to development of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and, more recently, the popular "Ice Road Truckers" TV series.
April 12, 2021
Channel 19
Making more of that Alaska plate with Bennett-leased owner-ops, take two
Turns out the opportunity to make the most of the plate registration fee did arise for owner-operator Jerry Boyd before the registration period runs out this summer. He and fellow Bennett Motor Extpress owner-op Carl Lawrence, as well as another hauler, embarked from Oak Harbor, Wash., bound for Fairbanks on Thursday.
April 21, 2018
Channel 19
Making the most of an Alaska plate
A visit with owner-operator Jerry Boyd, whose 2016 Prostar has something on its front that you don’t see very often in the Southeast, an Alaska plate under its apportioned plate, following a memorable far-north run back last June. Boyd may well get to use it again before the registration runs out …
March 9, 2018
Business
Alaskan trucker avoids injury as truck swept away by rushing river
Trucker Joel Barber, 40, of Palmer, Alaska, reportedly swerved off of the Glenn Highway to avoid a crash and bailed out of the 2012 Freightliner before it went into the river on Friday, Aug. 11. The truck was later pulled out of the river.
August 17, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
The crazy quilt of intrastate hours logging and ELD mandates
States failing to adopt an e-logging mandate. Hours of service regs differing from the federal rule. ELDs missing state-specific features. For the intrastate driver required to use e-logs, the change could get complicated.
June 5, 2017
Custom Rigs
A salute to the 'Old Filthy' 1957 Kenworth fuel hauler
For this week's Overdrive 60th-anniversary installment, the story of how one longtime hauler came to own one of his first employers’ classic 1957 Kenworth 925. “Old Filthy” was the first truck bought new by Montana-based owner-operator Gene Ballinger.
May 15, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
Florida legislature eyeing December 2018 ELD deadline for intrastate carriers, California uncertain
Florida’s move for its sizable intrastate market follows that of Texas, which adopted a December 2019 date for the ELD requirements for intrastate carriers. California Highway Patrol reps, meanwhile, note they’re yet uncertain on an intrastate ELD mandate there.
May 8, 2017
Voices
If the ‘sky is falling’ with sleep apnea: What about when ‘it lands and nothing really happens?’
“Nothing seems to address the situation where it has been a symptom, has been tested, and is being treated successfully.” –Dan Tucker on needed apnea coverage; FMCSA says two-year certification up to the examiner
January 22, 2015
Channel 19
Keller-sponsored musher pulls out another Iditarod win
Dallas Seavey broke the all-time duration record with a big win in the Alaskan Iditarod race this week.
March 12, 2014
Life
Back on the ice: Lisa Kelly’s return to Ice Road Truckers
Lisa Kelly returns to Ice Road Truckers as a new season debuts on the History Channel Sunday, June 9. What does the most recognizable face in trucking have to say about the latest twists?
June 5, 2013
Channel 19
Alaska: Avalanche on the Haul Road!
Never a dull moment on Alaska’s Haul Road to Prudhoe Bay, as recent avalanches on Atigun Pass proved for two rigs caught up in them.
June 4, 2013
Life
Lisa Kelly returns with new Ice Road Truckers series
Kelly is appearing in the third and fourth installments of a special series on SiriusXM’s Road Dog Trucking Radio Channel 128 this weekend, May 25 and 26, at 8 p.m. EDT both days.
May 21, 2013
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