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Custom Rigs
Video log: A day at the tracks on the European truck racing circuit
Overdrive Equipment Editor Jack Roberts attended a race in the European truck racing circuit last week in Misano, Italy. While there, he caught up with some of the participants in the race and captured some other sights and sounds at the event.
June 4, 2014
Business
Finalist Sonja Morris: ‘I love making others feel good about themselves’
Morris, an owner-operator, has been driving for 11 years and says trucking “completely changed my life for the better.”
June 4, 2014
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Truck Stops
Get your 10-cent coffee at Iowa 80 June 4
Iowa 80 Kitchen, the 300-seat full service restaurant in the Iowa 80 Truckstop will be celebrating 50 years in business on June 4, 2014. The restaurant is offering customers an opportunity to order from a special menu insert with 1964 prices.
June 3, 2014
Business
Truck Stop Tour inks sponsor
When country recording artist and Truckload Carriers Association Highway Angel spokesperson Lindsay Lawler hits the next stop on her 2014 Highway Angel Truck Stop Tour later this week at the Joplin, Mo., Petro, she will do so with a new official sponsor in Schneider National.
June 2, 2014
Business
Finalist Jennifer Marcu: ‘I try to encourage others that things get better’
Marcu has been a great inspiration to her husband, Nicolae. He says through her battle with cancer, she kept her head held high and kept on trucking.
June 2, 2014
Business
Good things happen, too: Saluting truck-stop staff
“Here’s to all the shower cleaners, clerks and stock personnel working in a truck stop today – thank you. We appreciate you and really do notice the job you’re doing.”
June 2, 2014
Overdrive Radio
Podcast: Off to the races!
With the date getting closer (late June) for Mike Ryan’s annual Pike’s Peak hill climb in his modified Cascadia, revisit with him and Chumpcar’s John Condren talking details about the 2015 debut of the ChampTruck race series, aiming to bring Class 8 racing to the states.
May 31, 2014
Business
You can’t fix foulness
Wendy, following a close call with an outrageous four-wheeler: “Sometimes, educating the public is hard.”
May 30, 2014
Business
Finalist Cheryl Lannigan: ‘It takes more than beauty to drive a truck’
Lannigan is one of 10 finalists in the contest, and she says what makes her beautiful is her display of “Christ-like character.”
May 29, 2014
Business
Nominations being taken for 2nd annual Citizen Driver Awards
With the process getting under way, two past award recipients have taken it upon themselves to help get the word out about the program and assist nominees through the application process,
May 28, 2014
Business
Finalist Shanae Burshem can ‘haul grain with the best of the boys’
Burshem says though hauling grain isn’t easy work, she loves how proud she feels after overcoming a challenging day.
May 28, 2014
Business
Take it to another channel
“Here’s the deal: talk all you want. Spout all the hate you want. Talk about your cat or your toenails or your mother’s underwear, but take it to another channel. Channel 19 is not your own personal radio station.”
May 28, 2014
Overdrive Extra
30-second video tip: Get more sound out of your phone speakers
One great scene from the rock’n’roll mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” has dim-witted musician Nigel Tufnel showing off his amplifiers to another character. Tufnel notes one amp with control knobs that peak at 11 instead of the usual 10. Believing the amp is superior to others, he explains, “It’s one louder.” Well, this little trick […]
May 27, 2014
Truck Stops
Love’s stop in Choctaw, Okla., reopens after 2010 tornado
At I-40’s Exit 166, the new site offers an 11,000-square-foot facility, significantly larger than the previous location.
May 27, 2014
Business
Sacrificial action averts tragedy on icy road
A driver’s quick thinking helps mitigate damage on I-90.
May 27, 2014
Custom Rigs
Born in the USA: 2013 Kenworth W900L sports all-American theme
Whelen Engineering’s rigs, including this 2013 Kenworth W900L, now display the company’s new logos that sport an all-American theme.
May 27, 2014
Channel 19
Truck stop operator’s new novel set during the ‘Great War’
Karen Gettert Shoemaker’s “The Meaning of Names” interrogates the reality German-American communities in the U.S. were confronted with following the outbreak of World War I.
May 27, 2014
Business
A memorial to my brother
The story of 1LT James Lyons’ death in military combat in Iraq, told in the voice of Wendy Parker’s brother, SGT Lehi Benton.
May 26, 2014
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