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Flatbed securement accountability, mentoring, training in practice
Longtime independent and Gary's Fleet Service hotshot flatbed/step deck dispatcher Gary McGaha feels his securement practice, an easy strategy to implement, might be "a perfect job for very experienced drivers" sidelined by medical or retired.
March 1, 2022
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What Kevin Rutherford's Sirius XM show's cancelation might teach us about the outrage machine
Tit-for-tat over loose-talk social media commentary from a politician, prompted by media amplification of similar loose talk, ends longtime owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford's long run on Sirius XM.
February 28, 2022
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On-highway fitness coaching program for quick weight loss, or your money back
The relatively new TruckFit program of the Trucking Fitness Company helps operators build custom-designed programs toward individual diet/fitness goals. Its founder and haulers who've used it emphasize efficacy through small steps.
February 25, 2022
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'Advanced ELD auditing': Preventing hours viols during an audit
ELDs have emphatically not delivered carriers from hours-related enforcement, particularly at the investigatory level when federal and state auditors come calling. Here's how to navigate the new system of ELD audits.
February 18, 2022
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On the 'Freedom Convoy' protest, with Canadian cross-border owner-operator Mike Murchison
A long Overdrive Radio talk on initiating and evolving issues related to the protests in Canada, from the vantage point of an owner-operator who hauls cross-border exclusively, as authorities up the ante in bids to end the border blockades.
February 11, 2022
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Full-throated return of the truck show season on tap for 2022?
With MATS back on tap in March, a robust truck show season ought to be in the cards for 2022 – details here on ATHS' series, their national convention in Illinois, Shine in the Pines in Georgia, a shootout in Illinois, the A.J. Soza show poster, more.
February 8, 2022
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Overdrive Radio
The FBI needs your help solving this cold-case murder
Via Overdrive Radio, an FBI agent talks about her office's push in hopes of gathering leads into the 2006 murder of 19-year-old Tracy Owana Jones. If you were running I-40 back then, you might help. Also: Debate over FMCSA's under-21 trial run.
February 4, 2022
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Price of border vax mandates? For this owner, a two-hour protest traffic jam
On Mike Davis's first-ever trip over the Canadian border last weekend, hundreds of protesting vehicles at 7 a.m. on the northern side cost some hours of wait. Also: A trial run sourcing synthetic oil, and a question: Anybody run "Sinopec" oil?
February 1, 2022
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'Not really what we need': Training regs may miss the mark, but this small fleet's doing it right
In this Overdrive Radio edition, veteran hauler and small fleet operator Harry Smith speaks to his passion for on-the-job training he's put into practice, skepticism about training regs going into place, and determination to move forward with the regs.
January 28, 2022
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Dramatic, disastrous wheel-off incidents -- a new way to prevent
Former owner-operator Scott Grenerth well recalls the day a leaky wheel seal resulted in heat such that a tandem pair on his trailer rocketed into the woods clearing a path like a tornado. New sensor tech from LWS, Inc., could have helped prevent it.
January 25, 2022
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Overdrive Radio
Owner-Op of the Year Bryan Smith's three-decade journey through trucking, family, more
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, walk-and-talk with trucker Bryan Smith through decades of business ownership, after operating heavy equipment in the Marine Corps during the Gulf War, and commitment to family and community.
January 21, 2022
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FMCSA's new 'Entry Level' training regs loom, old-school training ways survive
As for-hire trainers around the nation continue to pop up in FMCSA's new registry and adjust processes to fit the new rule, among "private" providers is one small fleet whose old-school apprenticeship approach will thrive even with new regs.
January 20, 2022
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Straight-truck short-haul with owner-op Miles Puckett
Puckett hauls blacktop in and around his Eastern Kentucky home base with this '07 Pete dump, one among owners of straight trucks making it work in the vocational dump segment.
January 12, 2022
Miles Puckett 2007 Peterbilt dump truck
Overdrive Radio
Within whorls of trucking history: Long Haul Paul's new 'Corn Belt Cafe'
A pervasive sense of loss permeates "Corn Belt Cafe," the new record Paul Marhoefer recorded all in live takes with principal partner Michael Ronstadt on cello. It's quite cohesive as a record, however, with an earthy feel evoking its rural road roots.
January 7, 2022
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'Black Out' vets-support Freightliner in the market for a new commander
"I want this to last forever. I want this to be a forever statement." –Owner-operator Chuck Timbrook on his Black Out vets-support rig. Timbrook's now actively seeking a new commander for the mission, and buyer for the rig.
January 5, 2022
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Overdrive Radio
A final 14 -- plus a 3-hour pause -- to count down to 2022
This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast counts down to 2022 with a run back through 17 of our most-listened-to episodes of the year, covering HOS/waivers, roadside trends, custom project rigs and restos, cooking in-cab, and so much more. ...
December 31, 2021
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Overdrive Radio
A tale of two loads of Kentucky tornado relief collected, distributed
In this Overdrive Radio edition, owner-operator Daniel Koors walks us through his and several other truckers' efforts after springing into action in the wake of December 10 storms that devastated areas of Western Kentucky and other states.
December 24, 2021
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Trucking's next generation engages with Wreaths Across America, far from D.C. hoopla
In the mind of Californian Dave Dein, Wreaths was a D.C.-only event. Read here how a Nebraska trucker led the high-school trucking instructor/produce hauler and his students to this quiet commemoration of Dean's own WWII-vet father and so many more.
December 22, 2021
Dave Dein laying wreath on father Philip Dein's grave
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