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Mar 1, 2010

Truckers News Senior Editor Todd Dills is the author of a novel, Sons of the Rapture, and blogs daily at www.overdriveonline.com/channel19. Write him at tdills@rrpub.com or http://twitter.com/channel19todd.

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Owner-operator gets his advocacy legs via truck maker’s promotional program

When Perkins Specialized leased owner-operator Dick McCorkle found out in February 2008 that he’d been recommended as a potential candidate to receive a brand-new Freightliner Cascadia for a sort of long-term test-drive that is the truck maker’s Slice of Life program (

Tales from a trainer's truck: Good, bad, ugly with reefer operator Bill Douglas

The rewards that come with knowing you've set a driver up for success, and difficulties setting boundaries with a trainee taking your credit card for dinner -- while you're asleep. Long Haul Paul takes the mic for this podcast with the longtime trainer.

Holding the line: Owner-op's playbook to push back on cheap freight

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Tales from a trainer's truck: Good, bad, ugly with reefer operator Bill Douglas

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