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Life
Owner-operator Angelique 'The Tornado' Temple: Latest member of Howes' Hall of Fame
Temple's 20-plus-year career has been marked by exemplary safety, hard work and ceaseless drive to help others. It's paid off -- just a year ago, she became an owner-operator of her own business, Tornado Transport.
November 28, 2022
Life
We're thankful -- for you
Here's a sincere note of thanks for the work you do from all of us at Overdrive. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 23, 2022
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February 19, 2025
Life
California CDL fraud scheme ends with 20 convictions
The defendants included DMV employees who took bribes, trucking school owners and affiliates who bribed them, and others. Also: Racketeering: HHG foreman sentenced; Love's donates $1.5M to United Way.
November 22, 2022
Channel 19
Calling all long memories in search of wedding band lost to the road
Former independent Louis Santiago reached out over the weekend in hopes of a holiday miracle. He left his wedding band on a sink at a truck stop in the 1970s -- he's hopeful his story lights a fire of memory out of the Midwest.
November 22, 2022
Regulations
FMCSA's Women of Trucking Advisory Board has a lot to offer men
Though it's a panel of 16 accomplished women in trucking, two members' accounts of the meeting illustrate how issues discussed -- from training practices and crime prevention to parking and more -- could have a big impact on all of trucking.
November 21, 2022
Regulations
Former Border Patrol officer charged with hiring illegal immigrants as truck drivers
The former Border Patrol agent operated a trucking company and allegedly used his knowledge from the Border Patrol to falsify documents and hire illegal immigrants. Also: Thanksgiving cargo theft warning; new Love's in Ohio.
November 18, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Back in the saddle, on a mission -- Toby Bogard's journey home to the road
Bogard’s return to the road with Heartland Express follows a million-plus-mile career prior, and he's newly engaged in efforts to improve the public image of truck operators after personal tragedies took him away.
November 18, 2022
Pride & Polish
Custom champs: Classic Mack B61 helping revive longtime trucker ministry
Marvin Graves has been involved in the trucking industry in one way or another for most of the last 60 years. He started out as a company driver, then became an owner-operator before he started a truck stop ministry in the 1980s.
November 17, 2022
Channel 19
Holiday-traffic highway safety PSAs fit for our four-wheeled friends
With the holidays on the way comes four-wheeled traffic in places all around that don't see near as much most of the year. Herein, some road-ready resources to point the four-wheeled friend in your life toward. Some new, some tried and true.
November 16, 2022
Partners in Business
Retirement vehicles: Don't place your bets just on the truck
Owner-operators pride themselves on maintaining trucks that make them a living, but when time comes to hang up the saddle, you'll want more than just the proceeds from a truck sale at your disposal.
November 9, 2022
Overdrive Extra
Rewind: How trucking changed this military vet's life
How W. Joel Baker caught the trucking bug in the late 1980s thanks to military veterans he shared the road with during his own military training and service in the Gulf War. "To all among you who have served," Baker added to cap this tale, "thank you."
November 11, 2021
Trucking History
Veterans Day rewind: Mail-call memories from Vietnam
Retired owner-operator Doug Fetterly’s first job out of high school, in 1966, was with the Fourth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
November 8, 2010
Life
TA donates $100K to St. Christopher Fund after round-up campaign
Drivers and motorists stopping at TA over the summer raised more than $100,000 for the St. Christopher Fund. Also: Another flatbedder acquired by P&S; Transition Trucking award voting ends Friday; Phoenix-area Love's reopens; latest Highway Angel.
November 10, 2022
Life
How does the public view truckers in 2022?
Better than you might expect. Also: Florida DOT allowing storm-response trucks to bypass weigh stations; Trucker Path adds Geotab ELD to offerings; Truckstop sponsoring Wreaths Across America; latest Highway Angel rescued four after crash.
November 9, 2022
Partners in Business
Know when to hold 'em, fold 'em: Timing the market for retirement
The recent stock market downturn has hurt many owner-operators' retirement savings. Yet it's more important than ever to manage your emotional responses and think long-term to get the retirement you deserve. Here find better advice than Kenny Rogers'.
November 9, 2022
Business
Rhode Island to appeal court's ruling of unconstitutional truck tolls
After the state's trucks-only tolls were ruled unconstitutional in September, the state filed a notice of appeal on Oct. 19. Also: I-30 closing in Little Rock this weekend; SmartHop small fleet owner survey reveals driver-retention successes, failures.
November 8, 2022
Life
Fleets warn of a bold truck thief on the loose
After Michigan-based AD Transport hired a driver and sent him out on his first run, the driver stopped responding and his company truck disappeared, until it was found weeks later in Baltimore stripped to the bone.
November 3, 2022
Life
I-94 closure planned for this weekend
A bridge replacement project in Detroit will close I-94 between I-75 and I-96 this weekend. Also: Movie, TV production haulers get ELD waiver renewed; TA honoring military veterans throughout November.
November 3, 2022
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