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Business
Cat Scale’s 1938 Kenworth to compete in portion of cross-country race
The Cat Scale 1938 Kenworth will once again compete in a portion of the Hemming’s Motor News Great Race this summer.
June 14, 2016
Business
Automate this
“Don’t automate me, bro.” –Wendy at the end of a run in a new Ford equipped with automated this and that: “the car automatically closed the hatch on me about 12 times before I quit fooling with it at all and started crawling over the backseat…”
June 13, 2016
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Custom Rigs
Photos/video: SuperRigs takes over downtown Joplin with truck parade, Tony Justice concert, fireworks show
Dozens of custom Class 8 working combos and bobtails convoyed through Joplin, Mo., Friday night, eventually taking over the city’s downtown streets with a four-hour block party that featured live music from trucker/singer-songwriter Tony Justice, an hours-long truck lights contest and fireworks show. Shell Rotella hosted the event, as part of its annual SuperRigs truck beauty contest
June 11, 2016
Business
Lawyers are more dangerous on any day ending in ‘Y’
In which Wendy responds to a Texas lawyer who, with the help of the Dallas Morning News, “asserts that most everyone who took the past three days off is now back on the road, driving illegally to make up for lost time.” …
June 10, 2016
Business
Truckers rally in Tallahassee, two arrested
The ralliers said they were protesting low rates and working conditions for drivers, high insurance costs and brokers’ lack of transparency with truck operators. Two truckers were arrested during the protests for blocking an intersection.
June 9, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: The heyday of mom and pop truck stops
Before the proliferation of large truck stop chains came to grace interstate highways, one-off mom-and-pop establishments found on two-lane highways were the norm. In the 1960s, the peak of such operations, Overdrive offered an advertising outlet for those small businesses to make their locations, products, services and amenities known to the nation’s independent truckers.
June 9, 2016
Custom Rigs
ChampTruck descends on Illinois for free race this weekend
ChampTruck heads to Gateway Motorsports Park in Madison, Ill., this weekend for the fourth race of the season.
June 8, 2016
Business
KLMO investigates: News reporters murdering kittens, future database aims to help
Once upon a time in a land far away … “people actually trusted their news sources, and used the information to make informed decisions about their lives.”
June 8, 2016
Trucker Talent Search
Just over a week left to vote in Trucker Talent Search
Voting for the singing contest is open through June 15. Visit TruckerTalentSearch.com to view the videos and cast your vote.
June 7, 2016
Business
FMCSA extends comment period for potential sleep apnea rulemaking
Commenters looking to weigh in on the effects a potential sleep apnea rule would have on truck drivers and the trucking industry now have an extra month to do so.
June 7, 2016
Business
Overdrive announces winner of 2016 Most Beautiful contest
Brita Nowak is multilingual and has an economics degree that she says helps her operate her business profitably.
June 6, 2016
Business
Healthy gut, happier life
What gut health and mental well-being have to do with each other — on full display in truckers’ friend Carolyn O’Byrne’s forthcoming “Gut Instinct” book.
June 6, 2016
Business
This week I learned …
Things you can’t un-see for a thousand, Alex … What is your once-pretty, sandblasted truck.
June 3, 2016
Business
Insurance is the devil
” It’s a necessary evil, and it’s forced upon us by law, so we put up with the incredibly weird questions and long wait times to talk to people who take our money into the black hole of insurance premiums and rarely give any of it back.” …
June 1, 2016
Custom Rigs
ChampTruck sees first-time winner at New Jersey Motorsports Park
Boileau, driver of the No. 16 Volvo for Truck Race Team USA, won the podium race under a full-course yellow/checkered flag.
May 31, 2016
Business
Kenworth T680 up for grabs in contest for military vet truckers
Kenworth, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s Hiring Our Heroes program and Fastport have joined forces to find the trucking industry’s top military veteran rookie driver.
May 31, 2016
Business
ATBS releases summer recreation guide for truck drivers
The Truck Driver’s Summer Recreation Guide, which is free to download, features more than 40 pages of restaurants, games, attractions and more.
May 31, 2016
Business
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalist Na’Keisha Rushing
Rushing had a steady job as a medical assistant when she realized she needed a challenge in life, so she got her CDL.
May 30, 2016
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