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Overdrive Extra
Practicing the ideal of unconditional love amid the unrest of our time
Bigotry had been around long before Jesus’s time, and his interactions with those deemed unworthy put him at the center of controversy with the leaders of his time.
October 14, 2020
Overdrive Extra
Dealing with holiday stress? You’re not alone
Gary Buchs on support at work on the road: “It’s not hard to find someone who will help, confidentially, on the highway working or parked at the truck stops.” Also, an update from Buchs on his retirement plan, put into action in October this year and “fully functional” …
December 16, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Where this driver found his way: Truckers’ World, Shepherdsville, Ky.
The special story of the day long ago when Long Haul Paul got a little trust and faith back via a chance encounter with a truck-stop chaplain and his congregants. “So I gave my heart to Jesus that night; and I gave my heart to Hank Williams; and I gave my heart to Ralph and Carter Stanley.” …
August 19, 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
Life
Sikhism at a glance: A religion transported
Outlining basic tenants of the Sikh religion, with roots in 15th-century India.
February 9, 2018
Business
Into the limelight: Sikh truckers in America
Sikhs have been a growing part of America’s professional driver force for three decades. Though there are tens of thousands in trucking, non-Sikh counterparts have little information and a lot of misconceptions about them — the ELD protests began to change that.
February 6, 2018
Overdrive Extra
A busy independent’s plan to transition his business (and dodge ELDs in the process)
A run with John Hodges in his 1998 Freightliner Classic, part of his small fleet. As independent, Hodges juggles roles as driver, owner, cattle farmer and pastor in his local church, taking it all in stride: “To whom much is given …”
August 9, 2017
Business
Believe in something
“It’s hard to keep an optimistic outlook on life when you’ve been on the road for 12 days in crappy weather.”
September 29, 2013
Voices
Readers split on marriage definition
Our hot buttons poll asking for reader views on the Supreme Court’s upcoming cases on the Defense of Marriage Act and state bans of same-sex marriage showed 56 percent of readers favoring a traditional view of marriage.
March 1, 2013
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