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It’s AMAZING! You WON’T BELIEVE IT!!

“Keep on truckin’ – and know there are people out there who will advocate for you, even if it means being banned from every mainstream news Facebook page there is. God bless the truckers.”

November 24, 2014

Giving thanks with fellow drivers: Brian and Bettina Cameron of Cartersville, Ga.

The word here on the team’s Thanksgiving open house in Cartersville, Ga.: “We’ve done it the last five years and it is really a great time,” says Bettina. “We’ve got to start remembering we are all a family on this highway.

November 24, 2014

The menu: Ham, turkey both fried and baked, chicken, dressing, potato salad, mashed potatoes, yams, peas, green beans, deviled eggs, cranberry sauce, gravy and giblets gravy, rolls and desserts, including some sugar-free options. “We cook in shifts,” says Bettina Cameron, “because the drivers come and go all day and night.” The pictures here are from a past Thanksgiving gathering.

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Looking back: 1984, Anthony’s Convoy

Remembering two-year-old Anthony Mascari, who passed away 30 years ago this week but not before a ride in the lead truck in a convoy on the I-270 loop around his home city of Columbus, Ohio.

November 22, 2014

Anthony’s convoy image from 1985 January issue

Women are from Venus, men are from Booblandia

“The most important thing to realize when traveling in close quarters (for extended periods of time) with your chosen mate is that men and women have completely different thought patterns.”

November 21, 2014

“Take me to your cleavage…”

Meals for 18 wheels delivers

After launching in 2013, this year, organizers of Meals For 18 Wheels are hoping to increase the number of drivers they feed over both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

November 21, 2014

Meals for 18 Wheels

‘Finally an independent woman’: Most Beautiful finalist and a Pride & Polish winner

Owner-operator Sonja Morris says she found trucking 11 years ago and recognized it as “a chance to finally become an independent woman,” she says.

November 21, 2014

OOIDA’s Truckers for Troops raises $52k for care packages

OOIDA says it raised $52,528 this year in its Truckers For Troops campaign. The money will be used to pack and send care packages to U.S. military members stationed in combat zones.

November 20, 2014

Interview with Shipping Wars’ owner-op Marc Springer

The seventh season of A&E’s Shipping Wars started this week, and Overdrive sister site Truckers News had the chance to talk to truck operator Marc Springer, one of the stars of the show.

November 19, 2014

Shortstack makes big waves with custom truck photography

Meet Ciara “Shortstack” Sleeth, a 17-year-old high school student from the hills of West Virginia on her way up in the trucking world through her truck photography. Next for her: small fleet owner-operator…

November 19, 2014

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Attack of the kidney stone, part 1

George laid up with an 8-mm kidney stone proclaims such stones “adultney stones” — it “takes a real man to pass them.” Wendy: “We’re both a little stressed and worried about how this is all going to come out (sorry – couldn’t resist)…”

November 19, 2014

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NASTC head David Owen’s sleep apnea story

NASTC president David Owen is firm in his belief in a professional driver’s ability to manage fatigue. And while he clearly knows the benefit of apnea treatment in those who suffer from it, Owen cites a fundamental disagreement with those who believe untreated apnea is public highway safety danger No. 1.

November 18, 2014

David Owen, pictured during his testimony earlier this year at the New Entrant testing listening session at the 2014 Mid-America Trucking Show.

Health-insurance exchange enrollment open through Feb. 15

Now is the time those purchasing health insurance on the exchange to browse and/or enroll or update prior purchased plans. For the coming tax year, penalties for not carrying health insurance are roughly double those in effect for 2014,

November 18, 2014

health-insurance changes ahead

Comets, celebrity butts and crashes

Do they have anything whatsoever to do with each other? Maybe not, but Wendy weighs in with an experiment intended to get information abut trucking to the general public.

November 17, 2014

Werner unveils latest military-themed truck

Werner unveiled this week its latest Freedom-themed truck, dubbed Ride for Honor. The truck is the fourth installment in the fleet’s Operation Freedom fleet of military-wrapped trucks.

November 14, 2014

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Owner-operator’s ‘grain hauling machine’

V.E. Parker calls his 2012 Freightliner Cascadia and 2014 Timpte Super Hopper a “grain-hauling machine.”

November 14, 2014

One helluva blind side back

“So it’s become pretty obvious: If you’re considering another line of work, space exploration is just a lateral over…. They think there’s a trucking shortage now? Just wait ’til everyone goes to outer space…”

November 14, 2014

Beware the comet-dwelling lumpers.

Capitol Christmas tree: Owner-operator talks 2,000-mile once-in-a-lifetime load

Owner-operator Elwood Higdem has the responsibility of piloting this year’s Capitol Christmas tree from its harvesting point in Minnesota across the country to D.C. — a gig he says “has been one of the best experiences of my life.”

November 12, 2014

Owner-operator Elwood Higdem and his wife Joan. Higdem is driving the Kenworth T880 that’s hauling this year’s Capitol Christmas tree to Washington, D.C.

Don’t eat me, bro

The connection between rubberneckers and those who will watch the “earth-shattering event” promised Dec. 7 by a certain cable network and a man who plans to feed himself to an anaconda.

November 12, 2014

I wondered what the inside of a grizzly bear looked like, so you know what? I looked it up on the Google. No special suit required.

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Ron Kelsey, pictured here with his 'Sunrise Express' 1981 Peterbilt 359, is Overdrive's Trucker of the Month for July, putting him in the running for the 2025 Trucker of the Year award.

Owner-op holy grail: Decades of direct freight in a custom '81 359

Owner-operator Ron Kelsey has been hauling for the same two shipper customers since he got his authority as an independent in 1994. Managing those relationships, and his award-winning 1981 Peterbilt 359, keep his business running strong.

Cameron Bagely's 1999 Peterbilt 379 parked at the Gear Jammer Magazine Truck Show in Epping, New Hampshire.

23-year-old Cameron Bagley's 1999 Pete 379 carries on father's legacy

California Highway Patrol said it won't enforce President Donald Trump's English language proficiency mandate as it's 'not part of California law.'

Enforcing Trump's English language mandate 'not part of California law': CHP

If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas regulations set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines – which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

EPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulations

Dezl Trucking Headsets 100/200 Series - Life on the road never sounded so good

Dezl Trucking Headsets 100/200 Series - Life on the road never sounded so good

Truck-ownership traditions staying alive: Owner-operators Lucas Zach, Harlan Martin

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