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Overdrive Extra
Do you have an exit plan?
While a well-planned career shift can be invigorating, planning for injury or death can be depressing yet necessary. Do you have a plan? Details on Overdrive.
July 24, 2018
Business
Mortality is no longer a lawful option
“We as a Nation are safe and we must strive to be safer. In order to prove how safe we are, we are introducing legislation that makes dying a federal offense, punishable by a frownie face on your CIA dossier and up to ten years in the pen.”
October 12, 2016
Business
Missing driver found deceased in truck with his dog
Trucker James Peterson of Wisconsin was on a run from New Jersey bound for La Crosse, Wis., according to press reports, when he suffered an apparent heart attack at the Love’s Travel Stops location in Mifflinville, Pa., and passed away last week
May 31, 2016
Business
$3.5 million awarded over trucker’s wrongful death
A Fresno County, Calif., jury returned the verdict on behalf of a California trucker who died in a truck fire caused by an extremely damaged transmission.
October 8, 2014
Channel 19
Slowing down for your fellow driver
A tragic accident at a loading area ended the life of a driver opening his trailer doors last week — yielding some seeming, but not always so, self-evident wisdom. And: More voices on over-the-road peeves…
November 25, 2013
Business
Journey into the sun…
“To laugh out loud embodies what it means to be alive… Rest in peace, Jerry, may you ride that mower into the sun.”
October 23, 2013
Channel 19
Rest in peace: Owner-operator Don Mulder of Nebraska
Owner-operator Donald Ray Mulder of Lincoln, Neb., passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. In the 1980s he was head of the Nebraska chapter of the Independent Truckers Association.
September 10, 2013
Business
Notes on death and laughter
No matter how dismal things seem, if you can find one thing to laugh about, you’ve won.
September 17, 2012
Channel 19
Former Overdrive editor, actor Charles Napier passes on
Character actor and former Overdrive editor Charles Napier passed away at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Napier’s perhaps best known for his role as one of the Good Old Boys in the Blues Brothers film as well as an intelligence officer in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Rambo: First Blood Part II. […]
October 7, 2011
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