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Channel 19
Medical resources hiding in plain sight
This trucking association's app offers owner-operators a '24/7 Doctor' function to its members but isn't getting as traction as it could. Read more here.
October 27, 2020
Voices
Mobility pays off on the road: Owner-op’s trailer-mounted two-wheeled personal transport
Using a 500-lb. pedestal-mount crane and winch mouted behind his sleeper for load and unload, owner-operator Kenny Capell devised a way to mount a relatively lightweight on-/off-road motorcycle to the front of his van trailer on a platform. His bike: a lightweight 2009 Honda CRF250M.
January 23, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Faces of the Road: Retired hauler and fleet owner Theldon Thornburgh
The latest in Long Haul Paul’s series capturing voices from the road: Theldon Thornburgh reflects on his long career, beginning in a 1930s/40s gas-powered International: “I was pretty lucky. I think I traveled 5.2 million miles and never did have a chargeable accident…”
April 30, 2018
Business
Kryptonite and snakes
“Let’s talk about fear. Have you ever been so scared that things around you grayed out a little, and you heard a rush of water going the speed of light through your head? … Some days, the road is scary.”
June 27, 2016
Custom Rigs
Photos: Painting the Evel Knievel haul rig
A few more details here about the restoration of the 1974 Mack FS786LST cabover and chassis, Post Coach custom office and trailer I’ve written so much about since news around its restoration began to come out in July. When I was at the Great American Trucking Show in late August, I had a brief conversation […]
October 2, 2015
Channel 19
Florida bike week, anyone?
Headed past Daytona through the 15th? Brief word to the wise: As thousands of motorcyclsts converge on the aarea March 6-15, Love’s in Ormond Beach off I-95 at exit 273 will be fuel-and-go-only.
March 5, 2015
Channel 19
Motorcycle stunt action at Pride & Polish
Jesse Toler and a fellow rider wowed crowds at the Overdrive’s Pride & Polish event in Crossville, Tenn., on June 18, 2014.
July 29, 2014
Channel 19
Another voice on the hours of service: Owner-operator Tom Quinton
As Quinton’s and recent other commentary makes clear, the new hours of service rule is foregrounding the problem of, simply, time. Time enough to get the work done in the day allotted to do it.
November 30, 2013
Business
‘Unofficial warning shot’ fired
Intel on the “2 Million Bikers to D.C.” ride Thursday, September 12, from Tidewater Express heavy hauler Lyndon Armory.
September 18, 2013
Overdrive Extra
One Girl Trucking: ‘More courtesy now’
An encounter with a pair of joy-riding, inconsiderate motorcyclists over Memorial Day turned dramatic when truck driver Bethany, blogging at One Girl Trucking, decided enough was enough and confronted the bikers at a red light. Read her account, a sort of pitch and plea to bikers, motorists and truckers alike for more courtesy and common […]
June 1, 2012
Channel 19
Behold the Red Giant — Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo
Just what is that motorcycle doing in front of Two Rivers, Wis.-based owner-operator Bryan Dax’s custom 1990 Diamond Reo “Red Giant?” When I visited with Dax this past week (you may recall his rig from my coverage of the Nashville Chrome & Class show last year) at the tail end of my tour through Minnesota […]
March 30, 2012
Channel 19
Owner-operator bags Victory Vegas Jackpot bike
The bike Long Haul Trucking-leased owner-operator Steve Wright is sitting on is a 2012 Victory Vegas Jackpot cycle that was the grand prize in a contest begun by the Albertville, Minn.-based carrier at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., last year. This year, after Wright joined two other finalists — owner-operator Jeff Christenson […]
March 29, 2012
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