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The future at 70 mph: AI trucks, because they can, not that we should
With DOT and industry at a full-on sprint to autonomous trucks, what's the point of replacing something that works with something that might work, eventually, if you throw enough money at it? The question emerged on I-40 that time the human team got its doors blown off by test engineers running handsless, with laptops.
July 10, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Clifford C. Hay Inc., up from ashes, with new hurdles after crashes: Small Fleet Champ update
After taking over the family biz in 1999 with one truck, Clifford Hay II built well beyond a single unit, showing plenty resiliency and commitment to customers. Hay was a 2025 Small Fleet Champ finalist, and with the 2026 July 31 entry deadline fast approaching, the owner's regrouping after another big hit.
July 9, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Turnage & Sons' size balancing act with organic bulk milk: Small Fleet Champ update
After growing the fleet to as many as 40 trucks, Robbie Turnage found balance right around 30 trucks to ensure equipment's maintained, drivers and customers taken care of. With time running out before the July 31 Small Fleet Champ entry deadline, the 2025 finalist noted change on that front. He never expected he'd haul milk from the Southeast to California.
July 7, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Just one month left to compete for Small Fleet Champ: Enter here
On the line for four 3-30-truck finalist owners are membership benefits through NASTC and a trip to Nashville for the championship event this fall. That's not to mention bragging rights, plenty industry recognition and that vaunted title belt. Enter by July 31 to compete via this short form.
July 6, 2026
Overdrive Radio
21M miles on the road to true trucking elite status
Today, an Overdrive salute to Candy "Glitter Granny" Bass, Eddie "Tennessee Trash" Parrish, and Mike "Cow Chip" Brown, all 7M-safe-milers and honored together for the achievement at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Bristol, Tennessee, last month.
June 22, 2026
Pride & Polish
Dawn of a new era: Pride & Polish, 24/7/365
The annual Overdrive's Pride & Polish virtual truck show is ending, but the legacy and competitive spirit lives on with the merge of Overdrive's weekly Custom Rigs video series and website section under the Pride & Polish name. More details here.
June 17, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Gord Magill's war: New book charts trucking's 'technocratic takeover'
Former trucker Magill's "End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers" offers a dystopian vision of American trucking today. Regulators would do well to pause over the author's personal story, driven from the industry he once loved by an ELD.
June 12, 2026
Overdrive Extra
You've backed the rig into tighter spots, right?
When the road gives you more than a story: Michael Singleton here narrates a backing mistake in the desert, one of those errors that "get named" in memory forever: "I stood there doing the math every driver knows: damage, load status, who to call, and how bad this was about to get..."
May 29, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking 'gold fever' brewing? Don't let rates rah-rah blur costs
Itās hard to miss rhetoric about how great rates are. For Gary Buchs, his first reaction to the big run-up is a bit different, recognizing costs will rise in tandem. Take a lesson from the 1800s "Gold Rush" out West.
May 22, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking brotherhood ain't dead yet: Breakdown, $360K cargo theft brings out the best
An owner-operator's breakdown led to a $360K-plus cargo and trailer theft, but brought out the best of the trucking community. The owner-op and legions of comrades tracked down the stolen equipment, getting Robert "Rocket" Miceli's business back on the right track.
May 20, 2026
Business
Last call! Weigh in on broker vetting and transparency, fraud, bond claims
ICYMI: Take Overdrive's survey on freight fraud, broker credit checks and other vetting. Middlemen's own reliance on ācarrier vettingā systems is sure to grow with the recent SCOTUS broker-accountability ruling -- the survey digs in on those systems, nonpayment, bond claims, "chameleons" and transparency.
May 15, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Aim 'chameleon carrier' outrage at the real culprits
Small fleets and owner-ops -- all trucking factions, really -- should take care not to give ammo to a "circular firing squad" playing the blame game. There's plenty to go around, historically, for setting the stage. But the real culprits, networks perpetrating frauds on carriers and drivers, truly deserve all they get.
May 12, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking for the next generation: Advise your kids to take the wheel?
Would you advise a trucking career to your own children? Long Haul Paul asked, and these owners and drivers chimed in. A hard "no" was one answer. What's yours? Weigh in here.
May 7, 2026
Overdrive Extra
'Road's good for thinking,' but real life's where it takes you back
Quick stop at the Joplin 44 at a crisis moment in the life of a team driver and his wife hundreds of miles away, an older trucker leaning against a worn Pete in the lot delivers a catharsis: "The road was still there, same as always ... but I wasnāt thinking about where it could take me..."
April 22, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Meeting a namesake: Dills Transportation's hand-throttle '07 Pete cleaned up in first show
Owner-operator Jeff Dills makes good on trucking determination despite a 1990s motorcycle accident robbing use of his legs. His 379 cleaned up in its first MATS, and caught Overdrive editor Todd Dills' eye for obvious reasons. Are the two related? Some likelihood, no doubt...
April 17, 2026
Overdrive Extra
How to combat stress on road to trucking safety, OTR well-being
April is officially "Stress Awareness Month" around the U.S. and much of the world. Longtime trucker Clifford Petersen urges fellow drivers to take it seriously, offering a variety of small physical and social fixes he's used to combat.
April 14, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Top of the trucking heap: Owner-op John Penn, full interview from MATS show floor
Overnight Drive host Steve Sommers' full talk here with Overdrive Trucker of the Year John Penn, happy moments from the floor, and an equally happy oil-drain experiment 106,000 miles in -- and counting.
April 10, 2026
Overdrive Extra
In-cab showers for the masses? Be Camper Sleeper's drive to deliver
What does a Ukrainian with RV-build experience do when his non-domiciled CDL gets pulled? In Ernest Kovalenkoās case, he starts a business to bring in-sleeper showers to standard-size sleepers. In Long Haul Paul's view long overdue, the conversion caused quite a stir at MATS.
April 8, 2026
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EPA to end DEF derates, roll back emissions warranty reg
Instead of the truck derating toward shutdown in steps with a DEF fault, the rule proposes that the driver or machine operator would receive an audible or visible alert. The engine would operate normally. At once, longer required manufacturer warranties of emissions equipment will be eliminated, too.
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