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The most cost-effective approach to changing oil

February 6, 2012

The best way to know when to change oil is to have an oil sample analyzed. Kevin Rutherford’s February Dollars & Sense column covers the next key step.

Your next health improvement step

February 3, 2012

Is a thorough checkup the best thing you could do to improve your health? Let us know your personal health concerns by voting in our poll.

Flying high, running low: Friday Channel 19 news round-up

February 3, 2012

Big birds to fly by truckWriting on the New York Times blog yesterday, Matthew L. Wald delivered a little unexpected news about a flock of young whooping cranes currently settled ...

What’s happening with onboard recorders

February 2, 2012

Review an Overdrive webinar to learn more about electronic onboard recorder regulations and how use of the devices is spreading.

What you may not know about the EOBR bill

January 31, 2012

Since I reported on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's attempts to gain new regulatory authority over interstate drivers relative to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program's now-internal Driver Safety ...

Do it yourself: Tractor maintenance

January 30, 2012

The first volume of tractor maintenance topics, compiled by the editors of Overdrive and Truckers News, covers 12 tasks that help optimize equipment life.

Operator to train in CNN’s Fit Nation program this year

January 28, 2012

“I was on my way back to Texas and didn’t have a webcam," says Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller about the circumstances in which he filmed what has become ...

‘Leave Tony alone’ — An owner-operator on the truck stop tiger

January 27, 2012

Animal rights advocates are a vocal bunch, as I've found out over the course of the last several years. Write word one about Tony, the tiger at the Tiger Truck ...

Four areas that affect fuel saving

January 27, 2012

Overdrive's Dollars & Sense columnist Kevin Rutherford explains how fuel-saving devices have to make a difference in at least one of four areas to be effective.

‘Monkey gouger’ Jimmy Ardis beats the odds to 4 million safe miles

January 26, 2012

Owner-operator Jimmy Ardis of Sumter, S.C., leased to Moultrie, Ga.-based Sapp Trucking, learned to drive "in a 1971 International 4070 cabover with a 250 Cummins in it," he says, running ...
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