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Trucking's TikTok generation reports harassment, but they're here for the long haul
New survey results find Gen Z truckers heavily influenced by social media and feeling pressure to glamorize the job online.
June 13, 2025
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Roadcheck fails crossing the scales in 2025
From securement nightmares to air lines that breathe in all the wrong places and tires that once were but are no more, here's some of the worst inspection fails from Roadcheck 2025.
June 10, 2025
'Just trying to get that last mile of the warranty' joked one commenter.
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March 24, 2025
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Meeting an out-of-service, non-citizen driver who can't read English
A conversation with a foreign driver revealed his support for Trump's English language proficiency mandate as an instrument toward his own personal growth.
May 21, 2025
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Roadcheck Day One: Weird things afoot in Whately, Mass.
There are some beautiful things to see on the road, some real “stop and smell the flowers” moments you don’t get at home or online. This author missed out on the scale house in Mass. (closed for the day) but got a possible-overweight alert himself at the truck stop.
May 13, 2025
The Whately Truck Plaza in Whately, Massachusetts, the scene of a weird start to Roadcheck and one of the best diners you can park a truck at.
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FMCSA's new ID verificaton test-drive, live from the Mid-America Trucking Show
FMCSA hopes its new ID verification tool for owners registering with the agency will stop fraudsters from infiltrating the system but be a breeze for legitimate, verifiable entities. At MATS, we took this test-drive to kick the tires on the new system.
April 17, 2025
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Owner-ops' near miss with a train a wake-up call for regulators?
Veteran owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt were crossing an uneven, pockmarked, divided double rail crossing when the lights started flashing. Luckily, they're OK, but they offered this warning for others.
April 14, 2025
Divided rail crossing, problematic for oversize haulers
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Arkansas police testing English skills at roadside? Social media says yes, but ...
Despite a popular post on social media, both Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Highway Police, the latter under the umbrella of the state DOT, denied any English language testing or arrests.
March 25, 2025
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What truckers want DOGE to tackle
Overdrive asked and trucking's owner-operators answered. Between ELD/HOS issues, truck parking, temp/permanent status for foreign drivers, CDL training, DataQs, New Entrant audits and roadside inspections, what do you think most truckers prioritized?
March 20, 2025
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Trucking attorneys: Broker transparency needed to fight fraud
When Convoy went bankrupt, dozens of carriers got stiffed on millions of dollars. A few prominent transportation lawyers argue that broker transparency could end that kind of abuse.
March 13, 2025
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Iowa I-35, I-80 'impassable' as blizzard conditions grip state
Iowa State Patrol is telling motorists to turn back or risk being stranded as a blizzard shut down major interstates and at least a dozen other state highways.
March 5, 2025
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Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE want your help finding fraud at DOT
DOGE has yet to tear into trucking's regulators, really, but with plane crashes and a DEI scandal at the Federal Aviation Administration, is it time to think about what skeletons FMCSA might have in the closet?
February 20, 2025
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Cargo theft expert weighs in on $40,000 egg heist from trailer
Thieves stole 100,000 eggs from a trailer parked at a big distributor in Pennsylvania, and cargo theft expert Scott Cornell thinks it's likely an organized ring of criminals already had buyers lined up.
February 11, 2025
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Ice Pick Bandit vandal hits more tires, again in Arkansas
In 2025, the 'Ice Pick Bandit' vandal has gotten off to a horrifying start, now hitting 70 more tires in the fourth state Overdrive is aware of this year. "This has been going on for two and a half years," one truck stop attendant in Arkansas said.
January 30, 2025
An image of the Ice Pick Bandit suspect released in Fall 2024 by Henderson County, Tennessee, police.
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Ice Pick Bandit rampage hits a Tennessee truck stop
At least eight more trucks got hit in Pleasant View, Tennessee, about 400 miles from the most-recent string of attacks in Georgia. This time, there was something different about the method of vandalism.
January 22, 2025
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Ice Pick Bandit hits 1,000 or so tires in I-75 rampage
Truck drivers grapple with tire shortages, blowouts as the Ice Pick Bandit relentlessly attacks parked trucks in the dead of night up and down I-75. One souce said the vandal hit 1,000 tires in a week: "not an act of terrorism," he said, but close.
January 17, 2025
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Ice Pick Bandit strikes again in Macon and Pinehurst, Georgia, causes blowout on I-75
The infamous Ice Pick Bandit struck two truck stops off I-75 in Macon and Pinehurst, Georgia, on January 9, and one unlucky driver suffered a blowout as a result.
January 10, 2025
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Overdrive's top 10 trucking stories of 2024
The Ice Pick Bandit, broker transparency and other regs, middlemen acting crazy, marijuana laws changing, Trump taking back the White House. ... Which was the most important story in trucking in 2024?
December 31, 2024
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Trucking inspection fails: 2024's worst of the worst
Many in trucking had a hard year in 2024, but you can be thankful at least that you didn't make this list of the worst equipment fails, drunkest drivers, and most shockingly clapped-out trucks of the year.
December 26, 2024
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