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Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2012

Hey, FMCSA: ‘Stop coming after us!’ Owner-operators had some strong words for federal regulators at a March Mid-America Trucking Show listening session devoted to electronic onboard recorders and their potential use to harass drivers. Operators urged ...

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Overdrive Staff | April 01, 2012

New life for old classics Daredevil Evel Knievel used a 1974 Mack Western series FS700 while on tour, making many of his historic motorcycle jumps in the 1970s. After the rig sat for decades in Florida ...

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Overdrive Staff | February 01, 2012

File under ‘don’t try at home’ It wasn’t a bad injector or cracked cylinder head that put this truck out of operation. Rather, the 2011 Mack Titan was the truck of choice for part of the ...

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Overdrive Staff | January 01, 2012

Watch your roof The driver of this rig was fueling at a Laredo, Texas, truck stop when a fellow hauler saw his extra passengers and attempted to locate the rig’s driver. The trucker approached someone else ...

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Overdrive Staff | November 01, 2011

Paying too much for too little “If you looked at each individual 18-wheeler and the taxes that the trucker pays – fuel, tolls, this and that, permits and all the crap they have to put up ...

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Overdrive Staff | July 01, 2011

Outlaw Riding into Cowboy Country Rolling Stone called him heir to Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, and that only begins to describe him. Mixing funk with a hard-bitten Outlaw Country style — ...