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When Overdrive (briefly) went Hollywood
Now on DVD is perhaps the oddest trucking movie ever made: iMoonfire, the long-unseen low-budget 1972 release written, produced and directed by iOverdrive founder Michael Parkhurst. Hard to follow and hard to forget, it’s about a lost space capsule, a gang of Mexican bandits and a fortune hidden inside a load of lettuce. The DVD […]
June 3, 2008
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Truckers’ proposals "range from useless to harmful"
USA Today on recent trucker fuel-price protests In an election year, the pressure on Congress to do isomething about energy prices is growing. Proposals are spouting like a Texas gusher. They include giving drivers a summer holiday from the federal gasoline tax, suspending efforts to fill the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and forcing shippers to […]
April 29, 2008
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"God has a plan"
The February 2008 issue of iOverdrive reported on the problems faced by truckers involved in fatal accidents that were not their fault. That the four-wheeler was to blame, not the trucker, doesn’t spare the professional driver the consequences of a horrific wreck. Another such wreck seems to have happened April 22 in eastern Howard County, […]
April 28, 2008
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A quicker trillion barrels
Astronomer Bob Doyle writes a weekly science column for the iCumberland Times-News in Maryland, often addressing energy issues. Here’s a startling statistic from his latest column Since the first oil well in Titusville, Pa., in 1859, humans have extracted a trillion barrels of petroleum. Conservative estimates suggest that there’s about that amount of petroleum in […]
April 28, 2008
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Big rig successfully performs Heimlich maneuver
We recently heard about a golden retriever successfully performing the Heimlich maneuver, but our “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” calendar just alerted us to an even more amazing news story we missed back in 2004: The Heimlich maneuver successfully performed iby a tractor-trailer. The short version: The driver of a Ford F-350 on eastbound I-40 […]
April 28, 2008
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Monday, Monday
Our “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!” calendar reports You are most likely to be injured at work on a Monday! We can’t immediately find any confirmation of this, but if anyone knows of any — such as a press release summarizing a report that examined workplace injuries, perhaps from an agency such as the U.S. […]
March 5, 2008
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Idiots and maniacs
This newspaper editorial about people who drive slowly in the left lane invokes an old George Carlin routine that surely resonates with truck drivers Have you ever noticed that when you’re drivin’, anyone goin’ slower than you is an idiot? And anyone goin’ faster than you is a maniac? “>Will you look at this idiot!” […]
March 3, 2008
Channel 19
"Anyone out there have a ten-twenty on Smokey?"
This Feb. 15, 2008, installment of Chip Sansom’s comic strip “>The Born Loser” suggests that we’re not the only ones reminiscing about the 1970s CB craze.
February 26, 2008
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If at first you don’t succeed
Our “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” calendar belatedly alerted us to the case of Seo Sang-moon, a South Korean who in 2005 passed the oral part of his driving test — on his 272nd attempt. blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name featured in Overdrive: The Voice of the […]
February 25, 2008
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Sticker disappointment
Gasoline Alley Antiques in Seattle just e-mailed us Thanks for visiting our website. Unfortunately, we just sold the last set of the CONVOY stickers we had in stock, in our store the other day. We will try to notify you, if another comes in, in the near future. Oh, well. At least the subject line […]
February 22, 2008
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Local man makes good
Steel hauler Ronnie Baker of Franklin, Ohio, iOverdrive Trucker of the Month for February 2008, got this nice writeup in the iMiddletown Journal. You can read our full profile of Baker here in the iOverdrive digital edition.
February 22, 2008
Channel 19
Remember these stickers?
In a drawer full of forgotten childhood items, we recently found six of Donruss’ CB Convoy Code stickers, published in 1978. (All images copyright Donruss.) Sticker #4: Bear in the AirSticker #15: Six WheelerSticker #30: Night HawkSticker #31: Feeding the BearsSticker #38: Asphalt PilotSticker #40: BearAccording to trading-card and gaming expert Allen Varney, the CB […]
February 21, 2008
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Bite Me, that’s where I live
John Latta took this photo in summer 2007 at the Petro in Joplin, Mo., but we’ve met ilots of people who live on this corner. It must be the site of a high-rise apartment complex with room for thousands. Fans of iDirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel will remember Struemph Charcoal from host Mike Rowe’s […]
February 19, 2008
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Light the Highway
Todd Dills pointed us to this National Public Radio report on the Light the Highway movement, which began with Christian prayer requests specifically for the I-35 corridor but now has gone nationwide.
February 19, 2008
Channel 19
No, that’s not a dummy
When John Latta forwarded us photos purporting to depict the aftermath of a motorcycle-truck collision — the motorcyclist dangling from the back of the truck with his head driven through the steel — our first thought was, “That ihas to be a dummy,”> some sort of movie special-effects shot. Alas, no, as blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is […]
February 18, 2008
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Speed of the sound of loneliness
According to researchers in the journal iPsychological Science, lonely people are more likely to believe in the supernatural, including God; and to attribute human qualities to pets, toys and vehicles. Since truck driving is one of the world’s loneliest occupations, this has us thinking about all the truckers we know who are fervently religious, or […]
February 18, 2008
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Calling Berkeley’s bluff
The article “Berkeley vs. the Marines” at the invaluable Snopes.com is about the 8-to-1 vote by the City Council in Berkeley, Calif., Jan. 29 to tell the U.S. Marines that its downtown recruiting station was “>uninvited and unwelcome” and to call upon Berkeley citizens to hinder the Marine recruiting effort. The council also guaranteed antiwar […]
February 18, 2008
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The Silver Bridge, 40 years later
Dec. 15 was the 40th anniversary of the rush-hour collapse of the Silver Bridge into the Ohio River between Point Pleasant, W.Va., and Kanauga, Ohio, killing 46 people. Reading accounts of the disaster, such as those linked from this Wikipedia entry, is depressingly like reading accounts of the 2007 I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Through […]
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