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Overdrive Extra
The lonely road — downtime pursuits for sanity
"Run your race as best you can. Cherish the time you have with those you love." --Owner-op Clifford Petersen on sharing enthusiasms, passions with loved ones.
June 19, 2020
Overdrive Extra
The underappreciated asset of off-duty hours
Gary Buchs on strategies toward effective task/goal definition and prioritization to be wise when it comes to hours: “For too many years, we’ve viewed time off as a liability. … No matter how a person calculates their hours of service, logically there is no way to drive or work more hours than the time off-duty we need to recover to care for ourselves.”
October 22, 2019
Business
California Senate committee hearing will discuss lemon law change proposal to cover trucks May 9
The hearing in Sacramento takes up changes proposed in Senate Bill 713 that would expand California’s lemon law to cover vehicles heavier than 10,000 lbs. and include other modifications relative to business-size exclusions for the owners of such vehicles, mileage limitations and more.
May 4, 2017
Business
Bill would expand California lemon law to cover commercial trucks
SB 713 would modify the current California lemon law to newly apply to trucks heavier than 10,000 lbs. and under the operation of a business, without size exclusions, up to 18 months from the date of delivery or 100,000 miles of operation, whichever comes first.
April 20, 2017
Custom Rigs
‘Black Out’ veterans-tribute Freightliner owner Chuck Timbrook bounces back from heart surgery
W.Va. owner-operator Timbrook’s off his regular run for the next six-seven months, but it won’t keep him from making good on the Christmas-season parade schedule he’d planned with his increasingly popular working truck.
October 20, 2016
Life
Life beyond trucking
Trucking moves America, but it’s not unusual to meet a trucker who’s moved by things other than trucking. Some even have other jobs they do to break the sometime monotony of the road.
September 22, 2015
Business
Notes on leaving the couch
Wendy and George use the weekend to effect at the Dayton Concours d’Elegance car show: “Without a doubt that no matter where we are, we’re never far from trucking.”
September 21, 2015
Business
Emissions system: Newer trucks’ potential handicap
Almost four in 10 owner-operators buying used trucks report emissions problems for 2010 and newer equipment, three in 10 for 2007-’09, as their biggest maintenance issue, underlining the importance of maintenance records in evaluating a purchase.
July 10, 2015
Business
Happy people have sunburned knees
In which George and Wendy burn up the swamps in Nick Shaughnessy’s air boat, and Overdrive’s Pride & Polish in Wildwood gets well under way.
April 24, 2015
Channel 19
Mailbag: Tough inspectors a cost of doing business?
Reaching into the electronic mailbag: owner-operator Joe Bielucki of Connecticut reports from the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
October 26, 2014
Business
Sleep at home is overrated
Missing the lullaby of an idling truck… “If you have insomnia, I highly recommend it, though I doubt an insurance company will pay for a Freightliner as sleep therapy.”
October 17, 2014
Overdrive Extra
Roadmansion photo gallery, background from founder Mike Parkhurst
Some of Overdrive’s oldest readers might recall the Roadmansion hotel in Los Angeles. Retired driver Bill Nickel, 74, was one of them when this story originally aired in 2014. Founder Mike Parkhurst also recalled two years of operation in the late 60s.
July 16, 2014
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