Life: Page 82

Portrait of two classics: ’71 Autocar and its paint scheme’s inspiration, ’74 Diamond Reo goes to the museum

Ohio-based heavy equipment operator James Green hunts down the inspiration for his late father’s 1971 Autocar’s paint scheme in a 1980 Overdrive issue, and donates his grandfather’s 1974 Diamond Reo, his final truck, to the Iowa 80 trucking museum. Take a run through some of that history with Green here.

May 8, 2019

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Truckers News wants to see your tattoos

Truckers News wants to see the tattoos that America’s truck drivers proudly display. It’s not a contest, and there’s no prize. The goal is to show off how creative truckers are when it comes to decorating their bodies.

May 8, 2019

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New TruckPark app allows drivers to reserve parking spaces

The TruckPark app currently allows drivers to reserve parking at 13 truck stops in and around Chicago, Cleveland, New York City, Atlanta, Dallas and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. Company COO and co-founder Joshua Walls said TruckPark will soon be expanding to additional locations.

May 8, 2019

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Annual Make-A-Wish Mother’s Day Convoy returns this weekend

The chapter looks to raise $500,000 this year with the event, which it achieved last year by raising $501,387 with 539 truck drivers participating in the convoy and fundraiser.Drivers who wish to participate in Sunday’s event can still register online with a minimum $100 donation.

May 6, 2019

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Trucker recognized after helping motorist stuck in snowstorm

Truck driver Donald Wood got out of his truck and crossed the road, where he found a small pickup truck with a camper trailer stuck in a snowdrift. Inside the pickup was an elderly man and his dog.

May 6, 2019

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Trucker named Highway Angel for stopping and helping motorist with car fire

Flames were coming from underneath the hood of the car, so Gubaci pulled over to the shoulder, grabbed his fire extinguisher and rushed over to put out the fire, which was between the motor and the firewall.

May 2, 2019

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Bandit Series sees second first-time winner of season in second race

Tim Ashley started the race in fourth, but as soon as the green flag dropped, he shot between front row starters Austin Hoppe and Scott Treadway to take the lead before the first turn of the race.

May 1, 2019

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Round-up: Jerry Ward’s final ride, trooper-to-trucker credit where it’s due, don’t be ‘that guy’…

Jerry Ward (1936-2019, rest in peace) is laid to rest in Colorado after a funeral procession fronted by a Nestor Trucking Pete, one “Mama Bear” from the Illinois State Police salutes a grain hauler, and advocacy on the other side of the parking issue activates in great Des Moines, Iowa….

April 30, 2019

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Watch: Mike Ryan’s 2,400-hp stunt truck turns tires into smoke

This video from stunt driver Mike Ryan shows him unleashing 2,400 hp into a cloud of smoke. Watch it here.

April 26, 2019

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Louisiana-based trucker named Highway Angel for helping ejected crash victims

Christopher Lemaire, of Erath, Louisiana, and a driver for Revere Transportation, is a former highway patrol officer who witnessed a crash on Feb. 11 along I-35 in Kansas. He saw a car skidding out of control, which hit a culvert in the median, sending it airborne.

April 26, 2019

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75 Chrome Shop Truck Show set for this weekend

The show — free and open to the public — is loaded with activities, including a convoy to the Bikefest in Leesburg, about 12 miles away. It includes food, games for kids and other entertainment.

April 25, 2019

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Trucker Buddy awards grants to 19 classrooms for school supplies

The organization that partners truck drivers with grade-school classrooms to help teach children about the trucking industry and more started the grant program in 2014. Schools are evaluated based on funding needs, as well as how the funds will be used.

April 25, 2019

Trucker recognized after preventing accident when student driver passed out at wheel

The student driver had been driving well, but began complaining about not feeling well. He later passed out at the wheel, and Demetrice Reeves was able to slow the truck down and pull the student out of the driver’s seat to take over and get the truck stopped safely.

April 24, 2019

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Colin Young presents ‘Because some of us are too good to wait’

Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedrive’s “Dashcam Central” repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the “road was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently it’s OK to pass on the shoulder if you’re behind an ambulance.”

April 23, 2019

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Bandit truck racing series gears up for Myrtle Beach

The event will kick off Saturday, April 27, with the Bandit Fan Series Truck Show at 1 p.m., followed by a meet-and-greet with racers at 2 p.m. and racing at 4 p.m.

April 23, 2019

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Trucker Talent Search

Last call: Entries for 2019 Overdrive’s Trucker Talent Search due April 22

Truckers can enter the Trucker Talent Search by submitting a video by the deadline of April 22. This year’s prize is a free professional recording session in Nashville.

April 22, 2019

Driver named Highway Angel for stopping to help after witnessing crash

Melby Millirans was driving north on I-75 out of Ocala, Florida, when he saw an SUV ahead of him veer toward the guardrail, then swerve sharply to the right and run off the road, down a steep embankment and crash into a row of trees. He stopped, called 911 and grabbed a flashlight to go help.

April 19, 2019

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Overdrive Radio

Learning from the mistakes of others, with owner-op Bill Ater from last week’s early-Spring blizzard

In this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast we drop into the scene at The Junction truck stop in Blunt, S.D., round about mid-week last week just ahead of the blizzard. Owner-operator Ater and a fellow hauler on a run from Midland, Texas, up to the Williston, N.D., oil fields, ended up spending three nights there, leaving with a new appreciation for the place and its generous manager.

April 19, 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.

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.

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.'

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.

EPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulations

The ALL NEW JBL FLIP 7 - Featuring AI sound boost, deeper base, longer battery life, and Auracast... it's MADE to be HEARD.

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Truck-ownership traditions staying alive: Owner-operators Lucas Zach, Harlan Martin

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