Life: Page 223

CARB diesel regs’ human toll: Family uprooted, split by move’s necessity

Checking in Martin and Alice Jez — formerly of Galt, Calif. The pair have moved to Michigan anticipating CARB’s regs relative to their 2000 Freightliner, splitting them from a six-year-old son.

January 9, 2014

Martin Jez, with a 1980s Peterbilt he owned for a time before moving on with the 2000 Freightliner he owns today. The Freightliner falls this year under the prohibition on 1996-2006 model-year diesel engines operating in the state that is the CARB Statewide Truck and Bus Rule.

Medical certification deadline update: Extension to 2015 in the works

As the Jan. 30 deadline looms for CDL holders to self-certify their operating and medical credentials with their license-issuing state, drivers may still need to carry paper cards.

January 9, 2014

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Circle, circle, dot dot dot….

In which Wendy proposes a research project, and “someone’s sister-in-law needed a job, so they created the ‘Fund for Dumb Stuff’… Progress, people, progress.”

January 8, 2014

Updated: Views from the center of the ‘polar vortex’

Pictures and more from drivers caught in the extremely cold temps across the nation’s midsection.

January 7, 2014

Reader Dan Hible and company have been “just putting up with a slight cold front” at home in Northwestern Minnesota. It was “-26 this morning,” he says.

Super single sing-along

“I’m curious as to how many readers have direct experience with running single tires. Do they really pay for themselves, as some say, or are they a pain in the rear?”

January 5, 2014

Wendy Parker's wide singles

Pit bulls in-cab: Resource for local laws?

In which reader Mary Hanlon adopts a pit bull and wonders, Is there a good central location to map routes to avoid locales with anti-pit ordinances? Any of the pit owners in the audience have suggestions?

January 4, 2014

Operator Hanlon certainly wouldn’t be the first driver to run with a pet pit. Gilbert (pictured) was an entry in our Most Loved Pets competition, recently rounded up. He’s the pet of owner-operator Lee Williams, who says he was adopted “from Villalobos Rescue Center” in New Orleans after having been there seven years following rescue from a California fighting ring. “We had applied to other places for a pet, but because we are truck drivers they wouldn’t adopt to us. Thank god Villalobos thought outside of the box.” Gilbert “loves riding…. His forever home is with us.”

Legal pot: Still a no go for truckers

Marijuana is still prohibited for truck drivers, despite some state measures to legalize the drug. Here’s a roundup of previous OD coverage on legal pot, including science behind driving while stoned and legal pot’s potential affect on trucking.

January 3, 2014

One truck to rule them all

Pictures of George and Wendy’s 2004 Freightliner Coronado: “‘The Precious’ is here. She arrived from Wisconsin the other day, and I haven’t seen my husband since.”…

January 3, 2014

Find more photos of the 2004 Freightliner Coronado, a former Chip Ganassi Racing haul tractor, in the gallery below. Find a full complement of shots via this gallery on the George and Wendy Show website.

Most Loved Pets winners: More pics, vid

I was happy to see both familiar and new (to me, anyway) faces among the Most Loved Pets first-place winners announced New Year’s Day.

January 2, 2014

Find more video from Trucker Josh and his ridealong companion via this link to his video blog’s main page.

First-place winners: Diesel Weasel, Snowflake and Mr. Muggsy

And finally we announce the top vote-getters of Overdrive’s Most Loved Pet contest: a Rottweiler cross, a white and gray cat and a grand harlequin macaw.

January 1, 2014

Diesel Giesbrecht

Second-place winners: Neena, Diesel and Sammy

Recognized are a Pomeranian who visits hospitals to bring joy and love to patients, a cat who makes life on the road more fun and a macaw who loves to ride in the truck and watch the traffic.

December 31, 2013

Hours of service, trucker strike, Lisa Kelly and more: Top 15 most read stories of 2013

Join us a countdown to the most-popular stories of the year, measured by total number of pageviews throughout the year.

December 31, 2013

Roller-coaster into 2014: 2013, don’t let the door hit your tail on the way out!

We’re sitting at the top, waiting for someone to drop a pygmy goat from the sky so we can disengage the brake and fly down the hill into 2014, and frankly, I can’t wait to get there.

December 31, 2013

giraffe on a roller coaster

Running in reverse: Channel 19 year in review, part 3

The ruckus that was the “Ride for the Constitution” and ongoing confusion over CARB’s emissions rules, irritation with CSA and a slight hope for hours flexibility rounded out 2013. Happy early New Year, drivers. Hang on tight…

December 31, 2013

The George and Wendy Show 2013 in pictures

A video look-back on 2013 put together by owner-operator George Parker for the George and Wendy Show YouTube channel.

December 31, 2013

2013 The Parkers

Third-place winners: Nala, Tiger and Alfie

A Shetland Sheepdog, a cat who enjoys the ride and an Angora rabbit won third-place honors in Overdrive’s Most Loved Pet contest.

December 30, 2013

Fourth-place winners: Angel, Gypsy and three birds

Voted fourth place in Overdrive’s Most Loved Pet contest are a miniature pinscher, a cat who makes the ride pleasant for her owner and three birds who love to ride in the truck.

December 29, 2013

We’re gonna drop it like it’s … New Year’s Eve?

What’s the origin of the tradition of “dropping things” to celebrate New Year’s Eve? Wendy’s got the answer, and it involves a guy named Fig.

December 29, 2013

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Custom 2005 Peterbilt 379 a trucker's surprise, with intricate hand-pinstriping

Kimball Transportation driver Zach Held may not be an owner-operator, but he drives an owner-operator-spec'd truck that delivered on a promise made by the small fleet owner Held pulls flatbed freight for. The custom '05 379 features a bevy of custom touches throughout, including immaculate pinstriping all around.

LTL furniture specialist TFX lays solid ground for growth, profit, support

FMCSA's new National Consumer Complaint Database page has nine categories of complaints to file, including one for freight brokers.

FMCSA makes it easier to call out bad brokers with National Consumer Complaint Database update

Oberman Logistics owner Wes Oberman's personal truck is this Kenworth T680 -- purchased to replace a lower-fuel-mileage 2020 389 that powered his maiden voyage in trucking as an owner-operator. He's getting 10 mpg now, and providing a reliable home for leased owners has the fleet up to 11 trucks as of August.

Skin in the leased owner's game: Oberman Logistics' simple, transparent plan for expansion

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Sleeper berth: Will truckers be able to split as they see fit?

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