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Making the case for renewed trucking pride
After a tough year, owner-operator Clifford Petersen opens up about his renewed sense of trucking pride and his glass-half-full outlook for 2021.
December 9, 2020
No matter your hauling niche, use that windshield time wisely to reflect on the chaotic last year with resolve to build your future.
Channel 19
One trucker’s push for potential national resolution to fight DIPG and other childhood cancers
Update: Howard Salmon, whose son is battling DIPG, with other advocates believes a House resolution could do wonders for DIPG awareness and research funding.
December 8, 2020
Liam James Salmon, from the time before his cancer diagnosis
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6 tasks to assess 2020 and set biz priorities for 2021
Did your owner-operator business hit its goals for 2020? What can you do to adjust for 2021? Check out these 6 steps for assessing your business on Overdrive.
December 3, 2020
No matter what niche you started the year in or what type of hauling you’re doing now, it’s likely your services remain in high demand.
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Music, tales for the big road: Trucker-songwriters John Malayter and Long Haul Paul, and bluegrass pro Tina Adair
Listen to interviews with trucker-songwriter John Malayter and bluegrass pro Tina Adair, as well as a pandemic tale from Long Haul Paul on Overdrive Radio.
November 27, 2020
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Happy Thanksgiving! (And a recipe fit for a range or bungee’d-secure slow cooker)
Whether on the road or off for the holidays, this black-eyed pea recipe (on a range or in a bungee'd-secure slow cooker) might help deliver thanks for you.
November 26, 2020
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Channel 19
Giving back: Pink Kalmar Ottawa yard spotters auctioned to benefit breast cancer research
Pink Kalmar Ottawa yard spotters were auctioned in October for breast cancer reearch, resulting is a $28K plus donation check to the Susan G. Comen foundation.
November 24, 2020
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Life
‘Eighteen wheels and a dozen roses,’ new single from bluegrass leading light Tina Adair
Overdrive debuts award-winning bluegrass singer-songwriter Tina Adair's video for the trucking-song classic "18 wheels and a dozen roses." Watch it here.
November 24, 2020
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Learning to see: Your recognition could solve a crime, save a life
Truck drivers' vigilance and recognition of a myriad situations along the highways could solve a crime and save a life. Take these two men as examples.
November 23, 2020
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POLL: How are you spending the Thanksgiving holiday this year?
Whether on the road or at home, working or not — how’s this year shaping up for your experience of the Thanksgiving holiday November 26? Weigh in via this poll.
November 20, 2020
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Trucker Talent Search
A long-time musician’s late-life switch to trucking fits the bill – and pays the bills
John Malayter's switch into the trucking industry gave him the inspiration he used for his songwriting. Learn more about John's outlook here on Overdrive.
November 17, 2020
John Malayter won a free recording session by winning the 2020 Trucker Talent Search. A live finale was held in a virtual format during Overdrive’s GATS Week in August.
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When a pandemic gets personal, or ‘Why I wear a mask’
The pandemic gets personal for Long Haul Paul. Read his tribute to two friends stricken with COVID-19 and why he chooses to wear a mask on Overdrive.
November 16, 2020
Read Paul’s collection of essays from 2020, based on his stories from the road during the pandemic.
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Trucking Law: Does workers’ comp cover COVID-19 infections?
In this installment of Trucking Law, Brad Klepper explains if COVID-19 is considered a workplace injury covered by workers' compensation.
November 12, 2020
It isn’t clear whether a truck driver will be considered an essential worker, protected by a presumption that any COVID-19 infection occurred on the job. Such determinations could vary by state.
Trucker Talent Search
Watch: Trucker Talent winner captures the pain of missing parts of a daughter’s growth
John Malayter's original song “I’ve Only Known You for 18 Years” is about his sense of his daughter growing up too quickly. Check out the video here.
November 10, 2020
For Emma Malayter, a big part of growing up has been caring for animals on the family’s organic farm. Her father, John Malayter, entered this year’s Trucker Talent Search with an original song about seeing the years slip away as Emma matured.
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Trucker Mike Sheffield channels coal country, CB riffing with ‘Hammer Down Again’ album
Long Haul Paul interviews trucker and songwriter Mike Sheffield for the "Faces of the Road" series. Learn more about Sheffield and his music on Overdrive.
November 2, 2020
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Channel 19
Medical resources hiding in plain sight
This trucking association's app offers owner-operators a '24/7 Doctor' function to its members but isn't getting as traction as it could. Read more here.
October 27, 2020
Note the 24/7 Doctor function at the top of this list, screenshot from the NAIT’s member app.
Channel 19
Welcome to the ‘deckplate diner,’ can I take your order?
As the coronavirus continues to impact daily life, truck drivers note that truck stop food-service patterns have shifted most during their stops. More here.
October 22, 2020
No sitdown dining option? No problem. Owner-operator Dean Carnahan sent along this picture June of a meal in the friendly confines of his own “deckplate diner,” as it were.
Truck Stops
Continuing proliferation of self-serve mobile tech reducing in-person contact at truck stops
As the coronavirus continues proliferating, drivers and truck stop operators are minimizing contact with more tech-based innovations. Details here on Overdrive.
October 22, 2020
A window on mostly touchless options available in the Pilot app.
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The trucker cap in teacher Amy Watson’s selfie from the day she was tested for COVID-19 later inspired her choice of “long-haulers” to describe COVID survivors with persistent symptoms. “My school’s mascot is a squirrel,” she said, which she finds appropriate, given that her pre-school students, with their short bursts of activity, are “very squirrel-like.”
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Trucking’s bit part in the 'COVID long-haulers’ name
A teacher's trucker cap provides inspiration for her to borrow trucking's "long-hauler" designation for COVID-19 survivors who discover they're facing an indefinite period of further suffering.
Small-fleet owner Jesse McGinness was going for originality with the look of this 2021 Peterbilt 389, spec'ing the black Alcoa rims from the factory. After his maiden voyage in a Class 8 tractor years ago, in a Peterbilt 379, he fell in love with the classic square-hood series. He plans to modify the stacks, the grille and more to all-black finish -- committing sacrilege, says the operator who took him on that first 379 run. McGinness'll maintain plenty in chrome/stainless accents, not to worry. The flattop with lift-axle is powered by the X15 Cummins at 605 hp, with an 18-speed transmission. 'I wanted this truck to be a truck that I thought was cool,' McGinness said, in addition to doing the tough over-dimensional/heavy hauling he'll require of it.
Channel 19
'WTF' stresses service for long-term success
The glider market grew from a few hundred sales a year in 2010 to upwards of 10,000 as recently as 2017. Gliders sported pre-emissions-regs engines -- no exhaust gas recirculation or selective catalytic reduction components and, thus, no need for DEF. With simpler technology and refurbished engines, the products were much cheaper than new trucks with new engines, making them attractive buys for small-business truckers.
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Glider kit market hits fatal nosedive with latest emissions regs
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After weakened demand in 2020, diesel prices jump back to pre-pandemic levels
Junior Elmore’s Marmon caught Christner's eye right off for a very simple reason: 'I’d never seen a Marmon cabover in the flesh before,' he wrote. 'Up close, it’s easy to see why a Marmon cabover was used in the movie 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' as the Autobot Optimus Prime. Elmore’s Marmon COE #31 HDT-BC-86 was Manufactured 03/1977 in Garland, Texas. This is a complete truck with no parts taken off. Still running when parked in 1999. A good honest work truck that’s nicely spec’d out.' Find more details, and history, via this link.
Channel 19
Look back at Junior Elmore's classic 1970s rigs
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