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When the Pete's cooling system pukes: No one gets home alone
The tale of that time an owner-operator's beauty of a Pete dumped its load of coolant all over the truck stop lot, and in no time had a veritable army of assistants in the repair. Rare these days? Maybe, but it happens. Pay it forward.
September 18, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Thanks for the drive -- trucking pros fuel our economy
"To all the professional drivers out there: thank you. Thank you for your grit, thank you for your persistence and thank you for the drive to keep our economy moving."
--Rusty Kirby, Pilot VP of transportation and logistics
September 18, 2026
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August 13, 2026
Overdrive Extra
What's wrong with this picture? 'I mean, the docks are in the back'
Police and local reports indicate this driver apparently opted for front-door service with his Aldi delivery sometime after midnight. Surveillance footage appears to show the truck/reefer combo pulling through the lot before circling back around minutes later to approach.
September 17, 2026
Overdrive Extra
How much will diesel go up tomorrow?
Expect another 30 cents' worth, according to one fuel network's daily hedge. Reefer rates have been keeping up in the recent period of cost increases, on average, yet the same can't be said for other segments.
September 16, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Danger of social isolation OTR: Truckers don't have to be alone
We can help each other, and help ourselves in the process. That's trucker Clifford Petersen's message to anyone struggling with isolation and serious mental-health issues that can result. As he charts in this story on World Suicide Prevention Day, he's been there.
September 10, 2026
Overdrive Extra
What's wrong with this picture? Motus mess costing small fleets thousands
Two carrier-authority suspensions with active insurance on file, one brokerage-authority grant with no bond? July Trucker of the Month Jeffrey Crise, DPW Inc. owner Kristin Crawford detail Motus mixups they're still at a loss to explain, worth tens of thousands in lost income. There could more than 1,000 other similarly situated carriers.
August 28, 2026
Overdrive Extra
OTR dogs, alone: 'We were the strays, too'
Michael Singleton here recounts a moving, unspoken camaraderie with a co-driver and so many of the rest of us over the grief carried OTR, for the alone dogs passed by, for those wronged or who've wronged us, for ourselves.
August 14, 2026
Overdrive Extra
'Right thing to do': Small fleet owner-op Elton Wek's lifetime trucking, still rolling
Elton Wek, the owner of 14-truck Premium Best Transport, showed his 2000 379 at Wheel Jam in June, where he got a surprise. The show recognized Wek in part for willingness to stand with fellow carriers -- a refusal, for instance, to haul for a broker who undercut a fellow owner-operator's long-term contract.
August 7, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ: Deadline for entry extended to Aug. 15
Here's a huge thanks to every small fleet owner who's put their trucking company in the running for the 2026 awards, and good news for those who haven't: we're extending the deadline a couple weeks through to Aug. 15 for initial entry.
July 31, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Just a few days 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 24, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Never mind the rates: Small Fleet Champ TFX 'finding ways to be more efficient'
Thomasville Furniture Xpress owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis both got their start in the trucking business as owner-operators decades ago. Today, after long careers centered in the LTL furniture space out of North Carolina, the 2025 Small Fleet Champs ride on strong relationships, profits, and service excellence.
July 16, 2026
Overdrive Extra
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
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
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