Matt ColeMatt Cole is the Senior Editor for Overdrive and CCJ. Reach him at [email protected].Custom RigsLivestock feed hauler’s high-powered 2008 Peterbilt 389Wyoming-based Nikki Cheek pulls a brand-new 2024 Timpte Super Hopper with the truck, powered by a Cummins putting 750 horsepower to the ground.July 20, 2023Custom Rigs1984 Kenworth W900B restomod still a workhorseOwner J.R. Schleuger showed the rig at the 2023 Shell Rotella SuperRigs show, where it won second place in the Classic Division. It was in "very bad shape" when he bought it, but he restored it with custom parts from his Lifetime Nut Covers business.July 13, 2023EquipmentIn-cab and out, camera options expand amid push-pull of privacy concern, regulatory attentionThe distaste for driver-facing cameras doesn’t only come from what they are, but what they might become. NTSB's past calls for mandates for video-event recorders set the stage years ago. Meanwhile, new options with multicamera systems expand views.July 10, 2023BusinessCounterpoint to some truckers' tech reticence: 'If you use a smartphone, you embrace it'Owner-operator Andy Freeman contends the smartphone itself is an emblem of technology embrace for those who use one -- the vast majority of truck owners and drivers. Yet when it comes to GPS functionality, he's still pretty old-school.July 10, 2023BusinessBroker intrusions on the rise with ubiquitous location tracking capabilityWith load tracking required more often than not by shippers and brokers, many owner-operators and small fleets are wary of the insights location data accessed through apps or ELDs may be giving away.July 10, 2023BusinessCan AI transform the prying eyes of in-cab cameras for the better?Overdrive's State of Surveillance survey made it clear that drivers just straight up hate in-cab cameras, but new AI features of video event-recording cameras are attempting to win them over. Will it work?July 10, 2023BusinessTrucking's State of Surveillance: Special reportThis multipart special report launches from an Overdrive reader survey looking at costs, benefits of numerous tracking/monitoring techs, likewise author Karen Levy's "Data Driven" examination of "workplace surveillance" enabled by the ELD mandate.July 10, 2023Custom RigsIndependent's 2022 W9 hauls livestock coast-to-coastWyoming-based Cody Davis won several awards with the rig at the 2023 Shell Rotella SuperRigs competition, including first place in the Tractor-Trailer Division, Best Lights and Best Chrome.July 6, 2023Overdrive ExtraA special shoutout to trucker dads -- and one in particularTruck driving isn't an easy career path for anyone, much less someone with a spouse and children at home. Here, a special thanks to all the trucker dads (and moms) out there, especially my own. Today, he hangs up the keys on a 40-year trucking career.July 6, 2023Custom Rigs'Back in Time': Kentucky-based owner-operator's 1989 Freightliner FLC 120As impressive as the truck is, maybe even more of a draw to it at the 2023 Mid-America Trucking Show was owner Jason Earlywine's Basset hound, Cledus Snow.June 29, 2023Previous PagePage 36 of 187Next PageTop StoriesCustom RigsOTR to CDL school owner: A.J. Frankie and the 'School Daze' '92 T600Frankie 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.Pride & Polish'Heavy Hook' 2024 389's tall order: Promoting tow-company positivity to truckingBusinessOwner-ops, experts cautiously optimistic for 2026 rates bumpRegulationsNon-domiciled CDLs are back: New Jersey resumes issuance after FMCSA crackdownFeatured SponsorHot Shot's Secret - EDT+ Winter Defense - Your 7-in-1 Anti-Gel Fuel Boost - Make every fill-up premium!
