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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
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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
Channel 19
The proud trucking legacy of the Bixlers, Updegraves in Pennsylvania
How's an estimated 1,500 years' worth of cumulative trucking experience for one family over the course of just a few generations? Meet another trucking family here with a proud legacy, via longtime owner-operator Steve Bixler and kin.
May 20, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Rocky Quetel sings original song 'Small Town Living' for Trucker Talent Search
Quetel, 56, has been singing and writing songs since his pre-teen years, he says. He would tag along with his parents to the local saloon and watch local bands perform.
May 20, 2021
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Action flick set on ice roads comes to Netflix next month
See the trailer for the new movie that stars Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne as truckers on an icy mission.
May 19, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Trucker Talent Search competitor Rich Scripps covers Hawaiian Christmas song
The 61-year-old company driver, of Spring Lake, Michigan, has been singing since the mid-1980s. As a contest semi-finalist, he has a shot at winning a day's recording session on Nashville's Music Row.
May 19, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Owner-op David Michaels performs original tune 'The Storm' for Trucker Talent Search
Michaels has been singing since he was 7 and has been writing his own songs since 2004. He's been trucking for 31 years.
May 18, 2021
Channel 19
How does your drug testing consortium notify you of upcoming randoms?
However they do it, this owner-op's story holds lessons -- make sure it will be the most quick method of communication to get your response. Worst case, you might find yourself in violation for refusing a test absent your reply.
May 18, 2021
Trucker Talent Search
Trucker Talent Search competitor Mike Sheffield performs 'Hammer Down Again' original
Sheffield's song, he says, is about what it can sometimes feel like to to be over the road. The 52-year-old OTR reefer hauler began singing as a child in church and wrote his first song at around 15-16 years old.
May 17, 2021
Overdrive Radio
'Six Days on the Road' and the outlaw trucker image
“Six Days” remains in contemporary times one of trucking’s most popular songs -- a decade ago around Overdrive's 50th anniversary, readers voted the track as the No. 1 trucking song of all time. Hear more about its history in today's podcast.
May 17, 2021
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