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Overdrive Extra: Page 37

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Gorsuch dissent in firing of ‘frozen trucker’ becomes confirmation hurdle
A 2016 dissent by Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, over a driver who sued his former carrier for wrongful termination, has become an obstacle to the judge’s path to his post on the Supreme Court. Some high-profile Democrats have cited the case as a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation.
March 29, 2017
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The weak arguments for skimping on behind-the-wheel training
It’s sadly ironic that the agency charged with improving trucking safety would rely on lame excuses to shrug its shoulders at a simple, common-sense way to shore up safety.
February 25, 2017
CDL training
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As tax time looms, owner-operators shouldn’t overlook these deductions
Here are five of the most common deductions for owner-operators, says trucker tax expert Dennis Bridges, an Atlanta-area CPA who works with about 1,000 owner-operators. Savings for these add up to $3,000 for those in the 15 percent tax bracket — and more for those in the 25 percent bracket.
February 17, 2017
Don’t let Uncle Sam take more than what you owe.
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Interstate funding and rest areas: Public, meet Private
Let’s hope that however Trump, Chao and Congress choose to build out our infrastructure, it doesn’t financially punish the industry that already pays more than its share to support roads and bridges.
January 31, 2017
Improvements to the interstate highway system, including additional services at rest stops, will likely entail the public and private sectors working more closely together.
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Chill with Overdrive’s Video 6-pack this weekend
It can be tough to keep up with all the trucking-related videos floating around online. Our editors see a lot of what goes out and have hand-picked six to circulate this Saturday.
January 27, 2017
Driver Allie Knight, the most popular of trucking’s video bloggers, has more than 68,000 youtube subscribers. One of Knight’s videos will be featured this weekend in Overdrive’s Video 6-Pack.
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2017: Regulations, the economy and your career path
Is your career path leading you to become a “critical-thinking, problem-solving” business owner?
January 1, 2017
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Still time to lower your taxable earnings
Considering accelerating any upcoming business purchases into 2016 to reap the tax advantage for this tax year instead of 2017.
December 22, 2016
Buying a trailer or other business-related equipment by year-end allows you to reduce 2016 taxable income. For a purchase after Dec. 31, the tax advantage will be applied to 2017 taxable income.
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‘Movin’ On’ moves on to video streams
Remastered episodes of “Movin’ On” have been released for streaming. The ’70s TV series featured team drivers roaming the country, stumbling into other people’s problems and helping solve them.
December 12, 2016
Will Chandler, played by Frank Converse, left, and Sonny Pruitt, played by Claude Akins, portrayed modern-day cowboys roaming the country, willing to help people in trouble.
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Deciphering Trump and the trade winds
Many U.S. truckers have feared the impending hordes of reckless Mexican drivers and the loss of U.S. driving jobs. So far, such concern appears overblown and misplaced. You could say the same for Trump’s rhetoric about isolating us from trading partners who have helped fuel America’s economic engines, including the trucking industry.
December 5, 2016
U.S. interests are integrated with Mexico and other countries in ways that aren’t as visibly newsworthy as a shuttered factory.
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Trucker’s popular video blog includes four-legged co-star
Trucker Joshua Giesbrecht produces daily videos and posts them to YouTube. They’re mostly humorous monologs with himself and Diesel, his ride-along dog. Giesbrecht often mixes in real-time and fast-paced time-lapse highway shots backed by rock music.
November 29, 2016
“I have people watching me from around the world,” says Joshua Giesbrecht.
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Rearview: 17 years of FMCSA oversight
Long before FMCSA’s creation in 2001, Overdrive had been a watchdog of trucking regulation. In the 17 years of FMCSA’s existence, Overdrive has covered the agency’s tracks, from major regulations governing hours to warnings about e-cigarettes.
November 28, 2016
Long before FMCSA’s creation in 2001, Overdrive, since its founding in 1961, has been a watchdog of trucking regulation. One of its early targets was the antiquated Interstate Commerce Commission, noted in this ad from the Overdrive-sponsored Independent Truckers Association. The magazine’s rallying of independent truckers against the ICC helped lead to the beginning of the agency’s end in 1980.
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Video blog: What’s at the end of the rainbow?
A recent Jade and John Show trucking video blog on youtube starts with a rainbow that points, with amazing precision, to a well-known New Mexico destination.
November 11, 2016
“I’m in love and overwhelmed all at the same time,” Jade says of her first visit to this superstore.
Custom Rigs
A great creation for the Great Race
A cocktail of a W900, an International 4900, a Ford pickup and a fabricated hood
November 2, 2016
Wide rear wheels and an open hood help give Todd Turner’s creation a hotrod feel.
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Brokers and owner-operators: A view from the other side
Lies. Late payments. Ridiculously low payments. No payments. Owner-operators’ brokerage horror stories are legion, but how does the process look from the broker’s perspective? Max Heine visits Birmingham-based TLS to take a look.
October 19, 2016
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Rearview: Organized independence
In 1962, a year after Overdrive began publication, editor Mike Parkhurst formed the Independent Truckers Association as a means to rally the magazine’s readership around common causes. ITA state chapters worked to assert truckers’ views into policy discussions across all levels of government.
October 19, 2016
This photo, from the July 1979 issue of Overdrive shows truckers affixing a banner to an ITA member’s trailer.
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Turning the national anthem into a scapegoat
Overdrive’s readers also feel strongly – as strongly as Colin Kaepernick feels about unjustified police shootings and other black oppression – that they’re abused by governmental officials. Instead of bullets and bludgeons, these officials wield an expanding arsenal of regulations that often add expense and misery to truckers’ everyday lives.
October 4, 2016
Janine Stange sings the national anthem at the Great American Trucking Show. She also performed this year at the Mid-America Trucking Show and last year at Wreaths Across America, a program that relies on fleets to help get wreaths placed at military cemeteries during the holidays. She will perform for the newly elected president Jan. 20 at the American Legion Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball.
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Overdrive’s Most Beautiful Brita Nowak talks tough times, more at GATS
Nowak charmed everyone with her frankness about her breast cancer journey and her passion for all things trucking.
September 30, 2016
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Rates, especially in the west, to spike due to major maritime carrier bankruptcy
Last week on the spot market, the load-to-truck ratio for outbound loads in the Los Angeles area shot up to about 7 load postings on DAT’s load board per one truck posting. The average is about two loads to one truck. The recent imbalance in loads to trucks puts upward pressure on rates.
September 27, 2016
The top portion of this graph from DAT shows the jump in load postings outbound from LA on DAT’s load board in recent weeks. The bottom bar charts show the jump in loads, too — from about 2,000 to as high as 4,000 a day in recent weeks — and a recent drop in available trucks.
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