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Overdrive Radio
Tales of three runaway trucks: Crises endured and averted, lessons learned
The advice was good then and it's good now -- see a massive pileup, a multi-fatality runaway, ask yourself, "Could it have been you?" Owner-operator Gordon Alkire's '70s runaway tale, among others, shows it could. When you least expect it.
May 3, 2019
Life
Coors celebrating history with 'Bandit'-themed scavenger hunt
The keys to a fully restored '77 Firebird and a year's supply of beer are up for grabs. Also: Twin brothers recognized for helping at accident scene; Love's dropping mask requirement for vaccinated customers; more.
June 10, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Remembering two songwriters named George on Overdrive’s Friday streaming show
'Overdrive's Music to Truck By' remembers the great George Riddle, a country music legend and a driving force behind The Jones Boys, George Jones' touring band, after Riddle passed on Sunday.
June 10, 2021
Overdrive Radio
An era’s social unrest finds an anthem in the rebellious ‘Convoy’
The legacy of history behind the unlikely 1970s hit "Convoy," by C.W. McCall, aka ad executive Bill Fries. The song, heavily laden with CB slang and conversation, tells the story of a spontaneous truck convoy that clashes with authorities.
June 7, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Recipes for the Road: Chicken alfredo pizza
In-cab chef and owner-op Thomas Remington offers his version for cooking in the truck. It’s a simplified recipe, minimizing prep time and ingredients needed. Feel free to add or subtract anything to make it all your own.
June 7, 2021
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Driver shares memories of Merle Haggard bus gig on music show
Among music, news and more featured on this week's Overdrive's Music to Truck By edition, host Big Al Weekley will talk with Merle Haggard's former bus driver and current caskets hauler Al Cotter, among a longer look at other examples of strange cargo...
June 3, 2021
Custom Rigs
The day five famous 70s/80s rigs made history on 'Hollywood Hill'
A firsthand account of the event, bringing together restored trucks from movies “Duel,” “Convoy," and “Smokey & the Bandit” with “Movin’ On” and “B.J. & the Bear” TV rigs — among others at the Southern Classic Truck Show in 2016.
December 21, 2016
Trucker Talent Search
Milton Raphael's original, 'A Little More Time'
Raphael says he didn’t pick up a guitar until his mid-40s, but “as soon as I learned how to play three chords, I said, ‘well, doggone, I’m going to try putting that to music,’” he says. He hauls new furniture up and down the East Coast and out to Texas.
May 28, 2021
Overdrive Radio
'Music to truck by' for the Friday morning ride with Big Al this week features Stephen Flatt
Join host Big Al Weekley Friday for this week's Overdrive streaming radio show for a tour through singer-songwriter Stephen Flatt's new "Cumberland Bones" record, as well as other tracks from his two decades plus writing hard-driving Americana music.
May 27, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Trucker Talent Search contestant Duane Cliatt covers Radiohead's 'Creep'
Cliatt has been singing since he was 7 years old and has been writing songs just about as long, getting more serious about it as a teenager. The 44-year-old owner-op with Kelva Express LLC has been trucking for 20 years.
May 27, 2021
Channel 19
There's a 'truck-a-thon' in the offing, driver
Starting tomorrow, the Trucks With Room to Spare group is hosting its Miles That Matter Truck-a-Thon, aimed at giving a way for working haulers to help raise funds for the groups' mission to marshal unused cargo capacity to deliver disaster relief.
May 27, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Owner-operator Billy Penny sings original song 'Just a Lie' for Trucker Talent Search
Penny began singing in 2006, when he lived in New York City, and has been writing songs since then. The 43-year-old owner of Penny’s Transport, based in Summerville, South Carolina, has been trucking for 11 years.
May 26, 2021
Overdrive Extra
You are not alone in the fight for stable mental health
Mental health is a widespread problem that could affect more than a million truckers. Be aware of those quietly suffering such challenges on a daily basis and find here simple practices to enhance the quality of your own wellbeing.
May 25, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Trucker Talent competitor covers Chesney's 'Anything but Mine'
Airgas USA company driver Guy Archer says he has been trying to “sing properly” for about the past eight years. His dream is to be a songwriter.
May 24, 2021
Trucking History
'Bandit' lives on as a classic trucking movie
As the movie debuted, the May 1977 Overdrive highlighted the magazine’s involvement in 'Smokey and the Bandit,' notably the inclusion of a truck race banner bearing its name.
May 24, 2021
Overdrive Radio
The trucking spirit within 'Cumberland Bones,' the new record from Stephen Flatt
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Stephen Flatt details how his logistics work in and around trucking dovetailed with some of the tracks on his new album. Get a taste of it and roll down the road with him here.
May 21, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Semi-retired trucker Clark Wilkinson covers 'Pancho and Lefty' for Trucker Talent Search
Wilkinson, 70, started singing in high school, but after semi-retiring from trucking in 2018, he began “playing guitar and singing more at open mics and small bars and clubs."
May 21, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Lube your Friday morning with some ‘Thirty Weight Coffee’
Musician and Overdrive Extra contributor Paul Marhoefer will be a guest of host “Big Al” Weekley’s streaming radio show Friday to discuss one of “Long Haul” Paul’s songs, “Thirty Weight Coffee.”
May 20, 2021
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