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UV protection and FMCSA’s window-tinting clarification

FMCSA said that “truck drivers, fleet owners and managers can install a protective window film with over 70 percent net Visible Light Transmittance (VLT) on the side windows of trucks weighing over 26,001 pounds.”

May 8, 2012

National day of remembrance — for truck drivers

A self-proclaimed “proud trucker’s wife” is circulating an online petition she hopes to take to Congress and the President to create a September 16 National Truck Driver Remembrance Day for the sacrifices haulers have made for the country. It would be a public holiday, says Melissa Peranteau of Sunbury, Penn., in text accompanying the petition, […]

May 7, 2012

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$100 off apnea test; Motorhead Garage TV at Diamond International

Motorhead Garage TV to feature International dealerships this morning Diamond Companies, a holding company for International Truck and IC Bus dealerships in Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, will be featured on a special “Big Rig” episode of the Motorhead Garage TV Series on the Fox Sports Network. The episode airs this morning at 11:30 a.m. Eastern and […]

May 6, 2012

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Could EOBRs solve the detention dilemma?

EOBRs can give owner-operators a powerful tool when dealing with customers and the shipping/receiving facilities relative to detention time. Given that stopped time and location is easily retrievable with the systems, operators now have ready-made documentation to prove detention time to the shipper, beyond just drivers’ word.

May 4, 2012

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Oil gamble on Wall Street? Speculation back in the headlines

President Obama is hammering on oil speculators again, while Republican opponents such as House Speaker John Boehner and presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney are calling the talk about speculation hooey, falling back on the same old “drill, baby, drill”-type rhetoric we’ve heard so much of in recent past. Problem with the latter is, well, we […]

May 3, 2012

Former hauler loses 100 pounds with dance

Need proof “small steps can lead to big results” in attempts to lose weight? Look no farther than “Big John” Drury, who at his heaviest weighed 400 pounds, reported Local 12 News in Cincinnati, Ohio. A resident of nearby Hamilton, the 6’7″ tall former highway hauler lost nearly 100 pounds combining portion control and calorie […]

May 2, 2012

Interviewing NFI ‘roadside midwife’ Mike Hawthorne

How many roadside midwives do you know? Such is the unlikely description that can now be appropriately applied to NFI driver Mike Hawthorne, of Somerdale, N.J. Since I wrote about him several weeks back, the driver, who delivered the third newborn baby of his hauling career in late March, has been back at work delivering […]

May 1, 2012

Humor in all places: Weigh stations, auto hauler suppliers…

That’ll be $5, driver When we quizzed operators via Overdrive‘s Facebook page about their funniest weigh-station memories, moving van hauler Robert McConnell didn’t hesitate: “Many years ago at a Colorado scale, when you used to have to go in and get your little yellow paper, a fellow mover was there and, when asked what he was […]

April 30, 2012

Holloway Sisters, good music, nice truck, and a joke

Nice truck, don’t you think? Drivers, meet the Holloway Sisters, Michelle (right) and Sondra, both of whom we met here next to Jimmy Jabo’s custom 1953 Ford F100 on the grounds of Chilhowee Park in Knoxville, Tenn. at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show a couple weekends back. The sisters performed with their family band, Outta […]

April 29, 2012

OOIDA on bond increase: Large brokers not the problem

I spoke to Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Executive Vice President Todd Spencer about the broker minimum bond increase issue earlier this week. The conversation followed posts to the blog looking at opposition to the measure (to raise it from $10,000 to $100,000) from small brokerages and their advocates, who have been reaching out to owner-operators […]

April 27, 2012

Speak out today in EOBR session

If you’ve not taken the opportunity to tell the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration your thoughts on just how electronic onboard recorders for hours-of-service monitoring are or will be used in the industry, today is your day. For haulers shutting down in late afternoon on the East Coast, the opportunity is particularly good. The agency’s […]

April 26, 2012

Heck of a farm truck: Custom 359 single-axle flatbed, with wide singles

Tom Crawford, owner and operator of the Farmer’s Market in Cashiers in far Western North Carolina, showed this custom-restored 1975 Peterbilt 359 flatbed daycab, outfitted with Michelin wide singles on the single axle rear end, at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville April 13 and 14. It was one among many I saw there […]

April 25, 2012

Sleep apnea reg recommendations: Comments closed?

If you’ve missed the news as yet, the recommendations put forward by the joint meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on sleep apnea entered a 30-day comment period late last week. Or did they? The agency sent out updates to various media […]

April 24, 2012

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Truck safety flames fanned in Ind.; columnist banks dinner with police chief

When Jerry Davich, columnist at the Post-Tribune of Chicago-area Merrillville, Ind., wrote about the case of an Indiana truck-car accident in which a death occurred recently, an area police chief challenged him to sit for an hour at the intersection of U.S. 30 and County Road 500W between Valparaiso and Merillville and count the number […]

April 23, 2012

More trucks, scenes from Knoxville show last week

Cinderella sleeper storyI was stoked at the Southeastern Regional Truck Show in Knoxville, Tenn., last weekend when, on Saturday morning, this yellow Mack pulled into the lot with none other than my childhood hometown of Rock Hill, S.C., lettered on the doors. The unit is the four-year project, completed when he put the truck in […]

April 22, 2012

Brokers: Highway bill unlikely prior to election; more on the bond issue

With news of President Barack Obama’s threat to veto any highway reauthorization or extension bill that comes to his desk with authorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline included, as it is in the House version that passed the Rules committee earlier in the week, came my conversation with James Lamb, head […]

April 20, 2012

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Checking in with Jazzy Jordan — and a rig named in her honor

When we quizzed Overdrive Facebook fans on their rigs’ nomenclature, i.e. not just the make and model but the names they used to give voice to that most personal of relationships — the on-highway operator and his or her machine — one in particular stood out for me. “I named mine ‘Jasmine,’ to honor Jazzy […]

April 19, 2012

Operators pitch in to foil suicide attempt, take two

It was truckers to the rescue again Monday in Minneapolis as a suicidal man stood poised to jump, hanging onto nothing more than the outside of a chain-link fence at the edge of a 25-foot-high bridge over I-94. A trooper on the scene, Carl Hoffman, took a page from the Tuscaloosa, Ala., police’s handbook and […]

April 18, 2012

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Rewind: Owner-op's vets-tribute FLD and Kentucky trailer, and its story of sacrifice, achievement and hope

Household-goods-hauling owner-operator Steven Meyer's custom-wrapped Kentucky trailer delivered the "Remember, Honor, Teach" message of Wreaths Across America with five distinctive, interlocking histories. Walk through Meyer's story in this Overdrive Radio episode rewind.

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Pride & Polish: Finalists square off Dec. 30 here

Clockwise from top, Overdrive's 2025 Trucker of the Year finalists, represented by the Western Star of Pennsylvania-headquartered Jason Shelly; Kelsey's Trucking independent Ron Kelsey, out of Arizona; and Orleans, Indiana-based John Penn.

Kelsey, Penn, Shelly: Overdrive's 2025 Trucker of the Year finalists

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