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The things we carry

| December 12, 2012

After a couple of times out, you learn to pack correctly. You also learn the more you take with you, the more you have to wash when you get home. It's still difficult to pack ...

Parking: Notes on circling sharks

| December 10, 2012

I want everyone who doesn't drive for a living to imagine this: You've been on shift for 13 hours. You spent 11 of those hours dodging idiots in traffic with somewhere around 80,000 pounds surrounding ...

Reader: ‘I’d drive naked!’ — More on in-cab facial video monitoring

| December 06, 2012

Readers responded in a big way to Jill Dunn's story on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's continuing waiver of some regs in order that a test of a Transecurity road- and driver-monitoring device could ...

The vampires among us

| December 05, 2012

Oregon, beautiful Oregon. If there's not a song with those words in it, there should be. Wild and wonderful, the state with everything: mountains, beaches, rivers, farmland and cities. We were both completely in love ...

Filling out the boots collection

| December 02, 2012

Texas has ruined me. I now have a burning desire for cowboy boots. I don't think it so much ruined me as pushed me over the edge of a boot fetish I've had since childhood. ...

God bless the Friday night lights

| November 30, 2012

I've mentioned before that my Mother is a saint. She is the epitome of a fine Southern woman. Rarely is there a hair out of place, her manners are impeccable, nails are always done and ...

Schedule down the rabbit hole

| November 28, 2012

I am a creature of habit. I like the same thing to happen every time I open my computer, turn on my television or fire up the coffee pot. I like to watch the same ...

Accidental truck stop heartbreaker

| November 25, 2012

Although I've gotten much better about being aware of my surroundings since being out, I'm still in fairly unfamiliar territory. I can walk across a truck stop parking lot with a decent amount of confidence ...

Staying ahead of the inspectors

Under CSA, you don't want to take any chances about whether your equipment will pass inspection. Check these Overdrive articles for help.

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