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Business
Veterans Day: A roundup of trucking industry salutes, happenings
As noted in another Veterans Day post on Overdrive — Patriotism and trucking go hand in hand. And as noted in a story on Overdrive sister site Truckers News, more than 20 million people who served in the U.S. military now work in the trucking industry in some capacity. Trucking industry trade groups and companies […]
November 11, 2014
Overdrive Extra
Route 66 Archive stuffed with images past and present
The website has images of thousands of postcards of fuel stations, diners and other attractions from the historic highway.
November 11, 2014
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Life
Breast cancer awareness guide for – that’s right – men
Lack of awareness is one contributing factor to late detection. A number of men don’t think they can get breast cancer, and because of the rarity, there is unlikely to be any benefit in screening them in the general population for it with preventive mammograms or other tests.
November 11, 2014
Business
Military vet: ‘Patriotism and trucking go hand in hand’
Owner-operator Rob Ahlers is starting a trucking company with two fellow veterans. He submitted a tattoo to Overdrive’s Show Us Your Ink, the text of which translates to “I am not led, I lead.”
November 11, 2014
Business
The meltdown in the melting pot
“Freedom means different things to different people. Some don’t appreciate it enough to think it gives them the right to do anything. The apathetic are the most dangerous.”
November 10, 2014
Business
Trucking leads the way in Capitol Christmas tree’s trek to D.C.
The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree began its annual trip to Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, when a 75-foot white spruce from the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota was harvested and loaded onto the back of a Heil heavy duty trailer, as reported by Overdrive last month. A Kenworth T880 — complete with a special graphics package […]
November 10, 2014
Channel 19
Move Over Laws in spotlight through November
The folks at Allstate insurance have teamed up with the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn., on a “Provider Safety Advocacy” campaign to raise awareness of Move Over laws.
November 8, 2014
Business
NASTC names its America’s Best Drivers team 2014
The members of the group represent, all told, 533 years of accident free experience and near 51 million miles.
November 7, 2014
Business
Sleep apnea and conditional medical certification being fought on new fronts
In an attempt to solve the problem of medical examiners’ willingness to issue short-term conditional certifications — if any certification at all — pending results of a sleep study, NASTC has started offering both member and non-member carriers and drivers a sleep apnea screening and testing program that puts the process in the driver’s hands.
November 7, 2014
Business
Conversation starters at the counter of knowledge
AKA “fun facts to know and forget.” Sometimes, making conversation on the road is hard.
November 7, 2014
Business
New vid series humanizes trucking: ‘Worth watching’
“We really need more positive images like this out there” — Wendy on a new vid series from Mobil Delvac that puts a spotlight on the lives of drivers.
November 5, 2014
Life
Driver saves fellow trucker from hot asphalt leak after crash
Driver Bill Hunt’s help in an April 2014 crash helped save the life of a fellow truck operator. Here’s his story.
November 4, 2014
Business
Driving force: What drives you?
“We need to remind everyone, that truck wouldn’t go anywhere without the driver” — Wendy on the “driving force” page of profiles.
November 2, 2014
Business
Crazy drivers — the real Halloween fright
“Things that really scare me are watching the recordings of our dash cam and seeing crazy dangerous nuts in traffic about 500 times a day. “
October 31, 2014
Life
The Barn: A Halloween tale
Perry and his Freightliner are long gone, but the barn on his widow Dara’s farm holds vestiges of him, and mysteries for her young daughter, whom Perry never met — or , as Dara finds out in this chilling story, did he?
October 31, 2014
Custom Rigs
Stretched Classic: Reader’s custom steel hauler
Steel hauler Matt Schneider has done quite a bit of custom work to his 1998 Freightliner Classic, including stretching it from 260 inches to 300, repainting it black and adding a visor from 12ga. Customs.
October 31, 2014
Channel 19
‘Every mile I drive’ — new record due soon from hazmat hauler Bill Weaver
The driver-songwriter launched a GoFundMe.com fund-raising campaign to help with the production costs today. Catch song samples from among Weaver’s many tunes here and more info about the campaign.
October 30, 2014
Business
Capitol Christmas tree loaded on Kenworth T880, headed to Washington
The Capitol Christmas tree’s yearly trek from to D.C. has begun. The tree was cut down this week and loaded onto a trailer bound for Washington, D.C. Kenworth has the honors of hauling the truck this year, and its using a specially designed T880 to pull the Heil flatbed the tree is loaded on.
October 30, 2014
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