Walcott Truckers Jamboree

Walcott Jamboree announces Super Truck winners

Overdrive Staff | July 16, 2012

The Iowa 80 Truckstop has announced its annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree — held July 12 and 13 — attracted 31,000 attendees and featured 175 exhibits, an 80-contestant Super Truck beauty contest and more than 200 ...

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CAT Scale to award sweepstake grand prize this week

Overdrive Staff | July 11, 2012

CAT Scale will award the grand prize in its Weigh To Win sweepstakes this weekend at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree. The winner has already been notified and will receive the 2012 Ford F250 4 x ...

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Two free concerts highlight annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree

Overdrive Staff | July 08, 2012

Iowa 80 Truckstop’s 33rd Annual Walcott Truckers Jamboree kicks off this Thursday, July 12 with an events-packed schedule for the two-day show. Topping the list are two free concerts, a Mobil Delvac sponsored Randy Houser concert ...

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Roadside Attractions

admin | July 03, 2012

An amazing Pete-built collection ‘Uncle Pete’ Norman Adorning the walls of Uncle Pete’s Truck Stop at I-40 and Sparta Pike in Lebanon, Tenn., is a collection of 4,875 coffee cups. And still counting, says owner “Uncle ...

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Roadside Attractions

Overdrive Staff | June 01, 2012

Nurse – my birthing kit, please How many roadside midwives do you know? Such is the description that can be applied to NFI driver Mike Hawthorne of Somerdale, N.J., who delivered the third roadside baby of ...

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Roadside Attractions

Overdrive Staff | May 01, 2012

Hey, FMCSA: ‘Stop coming after us!’ Owner-operators had some strong words for federal regulators at a March Mid-America Trucking Show listening session devoted to electronic onboard recorders and their potential use to harass drivers. Operators urged ...

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Roadside Attractions

Overdrive Staff | April 01, 2012

New life for old classics Daredevil Evel Knievel used a 1974 Mack Western series FS700 while on tour, making many of his historic motorcycle jumps in the 1970s. After the rig sat for decades in Florida ...

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Overdrive Staff | March 01, 2012

I ‘just tried to speak from my heart’ When Roadrunner Transportation Services contractor Glenn Keller, 51, decided to try out for CNN’s 2012 Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge, he was just one day away from the entries ...

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CSA'S DATA TRAIL

Inconsistent enforcement: CSA’s heat index

State inspection intensity ratings range from Maryland, where 32 inspections per lane-mile of National Highway System were conducted during CSA's first two year, to Idaho, where only two inspections per lane-mile were done.