Highway for rent

Dec 12, 2008

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY OR FOOL’S GOLD?
Love them or hate them, public-private partnerships are attracting the attention of politicians nationwide. Overdrive takes a look at both sides of the issue and how such projects will affect you.

PAVING THE WAY
More than 20 states have enacted legislation that permits public-private partnerships. Here’s what’s happening in the most active of those states.

CHANGING LANES
Owner-operators will have to choose between secondary roads and higher tolls if privatization continues to spread throughout the country.

Nomination period open for Owner-Operator of the Year Contest

September 20, 2021

60 years ago this month, Overdrive's first issue

It was 1961, truckers' numbers on the nation's roads were growing, and Overdrive founder and editor Mike Parkhurst was busy establishing an irreverent sense of humor with a serious tone as the Voice of the American Trucker ... download issue 1 here.

Scenes from first-annual SHE Trucking Expo in Tennessee

Custom champs: Chris Kulow's 2007 Peterbilt 379

How the COVID hours waiver could disentangle HOS rigidity

Garmin Dezl™ OTR Series Truck Navigators – from 5.5” to the extra-large 10”

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The Business Manual for Owner-Operators

Overdrive editors and ATBS present the industry’s best manual for prospective and committed owner-operators. You’ll find exceptional depth on many issues in the 2021 edition of Partners in Business.

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