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Roadcheck fails 2024: The best of the worst?
With Roadcheck 2024 in the rearview, here's a look at some of the worst violations inspectors clocked during the annual enforcement blitz.
May 21, 2024
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Drivers' behind-the-wheel fistfight causes crash on I-95
Vilhomme Mondesir, 46, of Lake Worth Florida, allegedly got into a fistfight captured on dashcam after refusing to let two other drivers in the cab take a rest break.
May 16, 2024
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Who is hauling all the cheap freight -- and why?
With national rate averages hovering around just $2/mile, and plenty loads offered closer to $1.50/mile, the question any owner-op perusing the load boards is thinking: "Who hauls this stuff, why, and how can they afford to?"
May 15, 2024
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Tesla Semi silences the haters by moving a heavy load? Maybe, maybe not
A new video of the Tesla Semi hauling the manufacturer's Model 3 EVs might shed some light on the closely guarded secret of the truck's payload capacity.
May 3, 2024
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Ice Pick Bandit strikes again: Will the feds step in?
After yet another truck gets its tires stabbed up and some air lines cut, we asked law enforcement what exactly is being done to stop this criminal (or criminals). Though silence can be deafening, officials should be motivated to act. Here's why.
April 16, 2024
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Insistent broker accidentally FaceTimes with nude driver on rest break
A young broker interrupts a driver's rest break more than a dozen times with repeated phone calls even though she's tracking him on an app. In the end, she gets more than she bargained for.
March 19, 2024
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Ice pick bandit strikes again: Local legend still attacking trucks
Down south on I-75 near the Georgia-Florida line, some type of maniac continues to attack trucks in a sneaky, expensive way. All the local tire shops know of him, but police have little to say.
February 29, 2024
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Trump endorses trucker's 'boycott' of NYC -- but what's really going on?
After Trump claimed "election interference" due to a $355 million fine from New York, drivers say they're boycotting the Big Apple. But are they? And might it be the other way around: Is NYC already boycotting truckers?
February 20, 2024
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Hauling nitroglycerin in totes for $1.69/mile? Can do, say brokers
Brokers pounce on the opportunity to book 42,000 pounds of explosives for $1.69 a mile. The only problem is it's a prank load meant to catch brokers failing to assess, and price, considerable risk.
February 8, 2024
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Tesla Semi limps up Donner Pass during I-80 snowstorm
The Tesla Semi might be best known for blowing past diesel trucks on Donner's steep grades, but a storm Tuesday night slowed it down a hair.
February 7, 2024
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'STAY HOME!!!' Winter weather snarls interstates, knocks out Teslas
I-5 in Oregon turns into a skating rink. Tennessee tells drivers simply to call it quits. And a Tesla supercharging station becomes a car graveyard as the EVs fail an important test.
January 16, 2024
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'Senseless act of violence': Driver shot and killed at Nashville truck stop
A young truck driver was shot near an East Nashville, Tennessee, Love's on Sunday, and Metro Nashville Police detectives are seeking help to find the killer.
January 10, 2024
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Trucker torn out of cab with SWAT robot after bizarre low-speed chase
Nobody knows exactly why Trinidad Cutshall took police on a 4-mile chase at 10 mph, but video shows the shocking conclusion to the trucker's act of defiance.
December 29, 2023
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Owner-ops survived 2023 -- now give 'em hell in 2024
In 2023 everyone wanted to tell owner-operators their business -- whether you could survive the market, outrun a Tesla, brave increasingly wild or criminal threats. Most survived, some thrived, and will come back harder next year.
December 28, 2023
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Trucking fails: Holiday edition
Stuck in snow and mud, tires chained up with phone chargers, brakes by Bluetooth and leaky wheel ends that will end badly -- these most spectacular trucking fails on Overdrive arrive just in time for the holidays.
December 15, 2023
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Truck narrowly avoids head-on crash, still leads to egg-splosion
A stunning dashcam video shows the moment when a tractor-trailer crossed the centerline and struck another truck. Following videos document the cleanup, as the trailer was full of eggs.
December 14, 2023
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DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg's strange interview with an owner-op
The DOT took a shot at making a kind of driver recruiting video, trumpeting how important and fun the job is. But sharing it again this week, Buttigieg missed the mark as new, aggressive regs wait around the corner.
November 17, 2023
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Senator, Teamsters boss nearly fist fight at committee hearing
After the Teamsters boss mocked the Senator's height, the former MMA fighter from Oklahoma challenged him directly. "Stand your butt up," he said. "You stand your butt up," O'Brien replied.
November 14, 2023
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