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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
A Catch-22 in over-the-road access to help
Owner-operator, truckers’ chaplain and life coach Clifford Petersen encountered this situation when he tried to refer an over-the-road hauler he was counseling to a licensed practitioner — it seemed next-to-impossible to find one who could offer teletherapy to local haulers when they were over the road, outside the state.
February 18, 2020
Business
‘CoachCarolyn’ O’Byrne now offering three audio courses toward driver self-help
Author (Gut Instinct), life coach and colon hydrotherapist Carolyn O’Byrne has released three new audio courses aimed directly at highway professionals who are looking for ways to improve their physical and mental health, and/or kick tobacco.
September 18, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Cultivating happiness in work: Time for a new approach
“For truckers who already have the deck stacked against them when trying to maintain health, poor work performance as a result of stress can have deadly results. This reality goes largely unaddressed by many carrier support structures, and drivers begin to feel more like a number, or a cog in a giant machine that is eating away their lives.”
March 18, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Toward reinvigorating camaraderie among haulers: Introducing road chaplain, owner-op and Overdrive Extra blogger Clifford Petersen
For regular Overdrive readers, Petersen may need no introduction, as he’s written several blog posts in recent times in which he draws on his experience over a few decades now in and out of trucking. His last time away, though, gave him a new purpose in his approach to the industry and, as he notes, a desire to leave it better than he found it initially.
August 6, 2018
Channel 19
Camaraderie, support along the long road
Truckers’ and law enforcement recent teamwork in Michigan to talk down/raise the floor under a bridge jumper is one of those events that show what is possible when folks come together in a single individual’s moment of need. Depression and sometimes resulting suicidal ideation and action on it are no joke; there are avenues to help out there.
April 27, 2018
Business
“As a man thinketh …”
Holiday stress is real. “For whatever reason, and there are hundreds this time of year, November through January seem to induce more worry and consternation …” Fortunately, there are ways to combat it.
December 14, 2016
Business
Truckers for Truckers and TruckersFinalMile.org unite
Truckers for Truckers, founded by Michael Suson as a mental health support group, is getting a head start on nonprofit status with the new partnership with Truckers Final Mile.
October 14, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: One driver’s bounce-back after two years lost to ‘suicide by truck’
After the head-on collision, Brian Rudisell needed reconstructive ankle surgery, but the physical rehabilitation wasn’t the toughest thing: “The more you talk about the problem, the faster you heal,” he says.
August 1, 2016
Business
When ‘keep your chin up’ isn’t enough
After losing a friend and fellow driver to suicide, 22-year trucking veteran Michael Suson founded “Truckers for Truckers,” a trucking-specific mental health support group.
July 11, 2016
Business
Healthy gut, happier life
What gut health and mental well-being have to do with each other — on full display in truckers’ friend Carolyn O’Byrne’s forthcoming “Gut Instinct” book.
June 6, 2016
Business
Using ‘rationate’ in a sentence
“It’s better to rationate before you masticate on the hind quarters of someone who pontificates.” Nailed it. And so did Maddog Trucker this week in his weekly Facebook post following the Atlantic’s story on PTSD in the driver’s seat.
March 28, 2016
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