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Life: Page 80

Channel 19
‘Over the Road’ — Paul Marhoefer back with new track in Muscle Shoals
Video: Scenes from another recording session with our own Overdrive Extra contributing writer and Moeller Trucking driver Paul Marhoefer. This particular session took place back at the Music Shoals Music studio of Donnie and Jan Gullett in Tuscumbia, Ala.
June 7, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Watch Trucker Talent Search’s Shanika Whiters cover ‘Tennessee Whiskey’
Whiters says music gives her a chance to ‘create and escape while driving.’
June 7, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
See Trucker Talent Search’s Marlaina Hill perform original ‘Leave the Pieces’
Hill loves singing at the top of her lungs while driving and doesn’t worry how that makes her look to other drivers on the road.
June 6, 2019
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Channel 19
Over-reliance on GPS leads to ….
We’ve all heard the stories of trucks stuck on pedestrian bridges, old covered bridges, cowpaths, logging roads to nowhere … but a British author recently threw down a new marker for where humanity’s over-reliance on turn-by-turn navigation might be leading. There’s good news for most truckers, too …
June 6, 2019
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Custom Rigs
Poor weather forecast prompts Bandit Series to postpone upcoming race
The race at Salem Speedway in Salem, Indiana, has been rescheduled for Saturday, June 29. The next event on the series’ schedule is Saturday, June 22, at Lebanon I-44 Speedway in Lebanon, Missouri.
June 6, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
See video that earned Ken Freeman spot in Trucker Talent Search top 10
Freeman says music and singing are stress relievers, and he enjoys writing songs after a long day of driving.
June 6, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Watch video of Trucker Talent Search’s Gary Miller play his original song ‘Trucking’
The top 10 finalist says when he’s not driving, he performs at church.
June 5, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Watch original song John Oliver submitted for Trucker Talent Search contest
Oliver submitted a video of ‘Fool’s Gold,’ earning him a spot in the top 10.
June 5, 2019
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Life
Upstart high school program lays the foundation for a trucking career
From Overdrive sister site CCJ: One California High School teaches students the basics of truck driving, preparing them to earn a learner’s permit and begin formal training toward a CDL. The program’s caught the eye of other high schools, who hope to implement their own Turn Key program.
June 4, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Watch video entry from Trucker Talent Search top 10 finisher John Malayter
The regional flatbed hauler took up singing after writing songs on his guitar that felt incomplete without lyrics.
June 4, 2019
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Business
Four free Partners in Business seminars set for GATS
ATBS will present two daily panels on the Friday and Saturday of GATS. One each day will focus on a panel of leading owner-operators sharing their best practices. In the other, ATBS representatives will present owner-operator benchmark data on revenue, net income and miles.
June 4, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
See Trucker Talent Search top 10 finalist Jason Henley’s entry, ‘Nebraska Drop n Hook’
Henley wrote the song to describe his life on the road and the ‘boundaries and regulations that take truckers away from their families.’
June 3, 2019
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Parking
Five parking workshops in N.C. this week
A series of little-publicized truck-parking-focused workshops are kicking off beginning tomorrow, June 4, in North Carolina, to “discuss and get your input on truck parking challenges, issues and solutions in the state,” says workshops leader NCDOT.
June 3, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Hear Trucker Talent Search participant Douglas Cochran’s original song ‘Taco Bell’
The Top 10 finisher has been trucking for 27 years and says he couldn’t imagine not performing his music for people.
May 31, 2019
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Overdrive Radio
‘Tennessee Alabama Fireworks’: The new record from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Boo Ray
Latest on Overdrive Radio: Ride along with Ray on a tour through his latest, named after a familiar site on I-24 anyone who’s run west from Chattanooga will recognize. The record starts with a trio of road songs in which there’s no shortage of mirth, pathos and more.
May 31, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Watch Trucker Talent Search’s Dan Carroll cover Casting Crowns
Top 10 finisher Carroll submitted “Come to the Well” for the singing contest, but he also writes his own songs.
May 30, 2019
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Trucker Talent Search
Overdrive announces top 10 in sixth annual singing contest
Three of the 10 will be chosen to compete live at the Trucker Talent Search finals at The Great American Trucking Show.
May 29, 2019
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Overdrive Extra
When celebrating, don’t become a memorial yourself
Clifford Petersen reflects on the challenges of the holiday weekend — marked increase in motorist traffic, irresponsible on-highway moves and so much more. “Don’t let it be your last weekend as a professional because of poor judgement. Don’t become a memory for others to celebrate next year.”
May 27, 2019
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Ron Kelsey, pictured here with his 'Sunrise Express' 1981 Peterbilt 359, is Overdrive's Trucker of the Month for July, putting him in the running for the 2025 Trucker of the Year award.
Trucker of the Year
Owner-op holy grail: Decades of direct freight in a custom '81 359
Owner-operator Ron Kelsey has been hauling for the same two shipper customers since he got his authority as an independent in 1994. Managing those relationships, and his award-winning 1981 Peterbilt 359, keep his business running strong.
Cameron Bagely's 1999 Peterbilt 379 parked at the Gear Jammer Magazine Truck Show in Epping, New Hampshire.
Custom Rigs
23-year-old Cameron Bagley's 1999 Pete 379 carries on father's legacy
California Highway Patrol said it won't enforce President Donald Trump's English language proficiency mandate as it's 'not part of California law.'
Regulations
Enforcing Trump's English language mandate 'not part of California law': CHP
If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas regulations set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines – which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.
Regulations
EPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulations
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