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Life: Page 153

Custom Rigs
ChampTruck’s third race of season set for this weekend
The ChampTruck World Series heads to New Jersey Motorsports Park for the third race of the season.
May 18, 2016
ChampTruck-PBIR-1
Business
N.C. driver plans to become owner-operator after winning lottery
North Carolina truck driver David Harris won $10 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket and plans to buy his own truck to become an owner-operator.
May 18, 2016
David Harris, a truck driver from North Carolina, won $10 million playing the lottery. With him is Alice Garland, executive director the North Carolina Education Lottery.
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Business
Trucker Paul Marhoefer: Live from Muscle Shoals Music studio
Video, pictures and more from trucker/singer-songwriter Paul Marhoefer’s ā€œOld Black Epiphoneā€ sessions at the Muscle Shoals Music studio.
May 18, 2016
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Business
Lost time, money focal point for drivers during second FMCSA sleep apnea listening session
Costs, both time and money, were big topics of conversation during the Federal Motor Carrier Safety and Federal Railroad administrations’ ā€œfact-findingā€ listening session on sleep apnea/operator safety Tuesday, May 17.
May 18, 2016
sleep apnea
Business
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalist Liberty Fry
With dry van or tanker holding explosives in tow, Fry and her husband, Steve, take their Kenworth everywhere from New Hampshire to Mexico.
May 16, 2016
Liberty Fry
Business
Diesel therapy
This is ā€œhow you end up spending an hour of home time, sitting in the driveway, idling in a vehicle you just spent the last three weeks in, missing home. Diesel therapy. The thrill ain’t gone.ā€
May 16, 2016
bb-king
Business
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalist Amanda Christina
This tough trucker has overcome cancer and a debilitating back injury.
May 13, 2016
Amanda Christina
Voices
Caught on camera: Attempted insurance fraud?
The extreme-brake-check entries are growing in Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted and other videos of on-highway events, this one in a center lane on the George Washington Bridge into New York City.
May 13, 2016
GWB
Business
Will power and upselling
The chance at eight pieces of toast with your eggs and bacon for $10.99, or just two pieces for $6.99? Guess which one is deemed the terrible decision: ā€œI wanted toast, but I didn’t plan on building a toast fort — two pieces was completely sufficient.ā€
May 13, 2016
Asking me if I want candy is a completely rhetorical question.
Business
Make certain drivers aren’t ā€˜guilty until proven innocent’: Report from FMCSA’s first sleep-apnea listening session
ā€œWe need to make sure that the people behind the wheel understand they are not guilty until proven innocent.ā€ –Dr. Alan Lankford at FMCSA first apnea listening session. Session 2 is next week in Chicago.
May 12, 2016
sleep
Business
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalist Laura Brooks
The former X-ray technician and her husband earned their CDLs in order to start a new life together.
May 11, 2016
Laura Brooks, Overdrive’s Most Beautiful 2016 top 10, OMB
Business
Pikachu, I choose you!
Getting decent sleep on the road sometimes depends on where you’re parked … And how close you happen to be to the Pikachu-colored flattop Freightliner when it ā€œripplesā€ the new Volvo’s bumper.
May 11, 2016
yellow-rabbit
Business
Trucking’s Top Rookie nominations open May 16
Nominations for the Mike O’Connell Trucking’s Top Rookie award open May 16 and close at 5 p.m. on June 24.
May 11, 2016
Top Rookie Logo 2016
Custom Rigs
Allen Boles secures win in second ChampTruck race of season
The win for Boles puts him tied at the top of the season point standings with Mack technician Mike Morgan.
May 10, 2016
ChampTruck racers at Virginia International Raceway. (Photo courtesy of ChampTruck.)
Business
Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalist Shannon Blom
Now hauling reefer freight, Blom’s experience includes driving school buses and moving expedited freight and large equipment.
May 9, 2016
Shannon Blom, Overdrive’s Most Beautiful 2016 top 10, OMB
Life
Mother’s Day Convoy shatters world record with 590 trucks
A total of 590 trucks participated in the convoy, which raised money for Make-A-Wish for Philadelphia, Northern Delaware and Susquehanna Valley. The previous Guinness World Record was 416 trucks in a convoy in 2004 in the Netherlands.
May 9, 2016
IMG_9782
Business
Ode to my Momma
Happy Mother’s Day to all the people raising kids today – I know I’m lucky to have my mom, even though I spent most of my childhood thinking she was an ogre. After I had my own kids, I realized not liking her much when I was younger was the greatest indication that she did her job well.
May 8, 2016
Happy Mother’s Day to everyone raising kids these days!
Business
Future’s so bright, I gotta wear lead underwear
ā€œI’m not sure where all these people who are envisioning a rash of child molesters grabbing kids in the bathroom … are coming from – or what bathrooms they’re sending their kids unattended into ā€¦ā€
May 6, 2016
Anybody got a copy on the bathroom situation up here?
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The heavy-haul/oversize trucking niche can be lucrative for owner-operators who know the ins and outs of the business. That doesn't come immediately, nor without significant challenges. Shown here is owner-operator Jason Chamberlain's 1985 Kenworth W900B, powered by a Big Cam Cummins with a 13-speed. He owns two trailers -- a 55-ton, three-axle XL Specialized RGN and a 2017 Benson three-axle, low-pro step deck.
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High-dollar freight means high cost consideration: Heavy and oversize hauling
There is a lot of nuance to the heavy-haul/oversize trucking niche. Equipment is more expensive, insurance requirements are higher, permitting and pilot cars add operational costs and much more. Are the rates worth the hassle?
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