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Tour of duty: Owner-operator of the year candidate Bryan Smith

Smith leveraged military experience toward a driving career, truck ownership and longtime success as an owner-operator leased to Art Pape Transfer.

October 2, 2013

Bryan Smith and his 2009 Peterbilt 386, powered by 600-hp Cummins engine. Smith, nominated this year for the Truckload Carriers Association’s Owner-Operator of the Year award, was also Overdrive‘s Trucker of the Month in March of 2011.

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OTR to CDL school owner: A.J. Frankie and the 'School Daze' '92 T600

Frankie has been driving trucks for 40 years, but after long complaints about the quality of truck driver he was seeing on the roads, his wife told him he ought earn his right to complain. He opened a Driving Academy franchise and runs the 1992 Kenworth featured here to school almost daily.

Clifton Parsley's 'Heavy Hook' 2024 Peterbilt 389 was voted by Overdrive readers as the 2025 Pride & Polish Limited Mileage champ. Parsley built the heavy rotator tow truck not only to work in his Cave City, Kentucky-based towing business, but to also promote a positive image of the towing industry to truckers.

'Heavy Hook' 2024 389's tall order: Promoting tow-company positivity to trucking

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Owner-ops, experts cautiously optimistic for 2026 rates bump

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Non-domiciled CDLs are back: New Jersey resumes issuance after FMCSA crackdown

JBL Live Beam 3 - Slim, sleek, and impossibly modern earbuds and Smart Charging Case - Audio Evolution You Can See and Hear

JBL Live Beam 3 - Slim, sleek, and impossibly modern earbuds and Smart Charging Case - Audio Evolution You Can See and Hear