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Life
Guitarist, founding member of iconic rock band with Overdrive ties dies
Tim Bachman, one of the founding members of the iconic Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, passed away April 28. The last part of the band's name came from an encounter with this publication at a Windsor stop, detailed in August 1975.
January 23, 2023
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Large Cars & Guitars wraps a $40K haul for breast cancer
Truckers came together this past weekend with friends from all walks of life to raise more than $40,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer awareness and research at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee.
May 9, 2023
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February 19, 2025
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OTR work-life balance in a down market: Is there such a thing?
Just how to catch elusive work-life balance over-the-road is the subject of a May 23 session featuring pros who've lived the related issues themselves. Register for the event now for insights on improving quality of life in a tough time.
May 1, 2023
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$240K at nearly 9% interest on a new truck: Deal or no deal?
Truck ownership wasn't supposed to be this hard. Or maybe it was? En route to a planned truck replacement, owner-operator Matthew Mickenberg crunched the numbers, thought hard, and made a big re-evaluation of how his one-truck business should look.
April 25, 2023
Small Fleet Champ
Enter the ring: Overdrive's 2023 Small Fleet Championship kicks off
If you've built a solid foundation for long-term success through ups and downs of trucking business cycles, you're a worthy contender. Put your fleet (3-30 trucks) in the running for a chance to claim the title belt in one of two divisions.
April 24, 2023
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More ways to vet brokers to combat fraud, double brokering
Double brokering and other fraud in spot freight transactions is dragging down rates through misrepresentation/skimming, and in some cases outright theft. At MATS, yet another tool in the arsenal emerged.
April 18, 2023
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With six more highway workers dead last month in Maryland, double down on the fight against safety complacency
In the wake of six March deaths after a car plowed through a construction zone, Clifford Petersen kicks off work-zone-safety week with this safety-complacency message: "If we’re honest with ourselves, we’re all guilty of it." A few ways to fight it, here.
April 17, 2023
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Hey brokers, Holland Logistics is in fact an authorized trucking company
That's despite assertions to the contrary in the data-mining system of a third-party provider of authority lookup services, small fleet owner Thomas Holland said. With added difficulties as a result, the owner feels like he's facing the end of his biz.
April 12, 2023
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'Bandit' 2021 W900L: New floor, more mods add to the trophy case
Oakley Trucking-leased owner-operator John McCormick's 2021 Kenworth W900L, Bandit, took home second for its cab interior in the working truck class at MATS. Here, views on a project come to pass there with a new floor, more.
April 11, 2023
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Beware the insurance-requirement fine print in truck-lease agreements
There's a common condition within truck lease agreements that can present a serious obstacle. Read that fine print closely or you could be losing money.
April 10, 2023
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One Wyoming funeral home, seven drivers: Dispatch from a Truckers Final Mile benefit at MATS
Long Haul Paul details the MATS benefit for the organization that's filled a void left in the wake of deregulation -- Truckers Final Mile and its founder, Robert Palm, recovering from surgery as he continued to assist families bring loved ones home.
April 7, 2023
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Hats off to 50-year trucking veteran Candy Bass
As the TA location in downtown Nashville that bears her name closed last Friday, Candy Bass was being feted in Louisville at MATS as WIT's Driver of the Year. Here, a recollection of a selfless presence in trucking well worthy of all our appreciation.
April 4, 2023
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'Love of old trucks' with Dwayne J. Nienberg: Faces of the Road
"There are folks you meet out here who quietly reestablish your faith in people. Nienberg is one of them." --Long Haul Paul on Nienberg's story of love of trucking after a tragic crash, struggle to just get back to it on the road.
March 31, 2023
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Join us at MATS -- new owner-operator business book released, live benchmarking seminar, more
Join Overdrive and ATBS 1:45 p.m. local time on Friday, March 31, in Louisville at MATS for the annual Partners in Business seminar, as new owner-operator manual, charting business start to finish, released. Download here.
March 23, 2023
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An argument for an hourly-pay standard for truckers
Clifford Petersen believes that while such a shift may be painful for some, he feels "it’s a necessary one toward meaningful reform, and a way to seed motivation for the next generation of truckers," improving safety in the process.
March 28, 2023
Overdrive Radio
Tales from a trainer's truck: Good, bad, ugly with reefer operator Bill Douglas
The rewards that come with knowing you've set a driver up for success, and difficulties setting boundaries with a trainee taking your credit card for dinner -- while you're asleep. Long Haul Paul takes the mic for this podcast with the longtime trainer.
March 24, 2023
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Owner-operators dish to the motoring public on parking, ELDs, appreciation, sharing the road ...
A recent episode of a local radio program delivered a dose of reality to the motoring public, digging into a variety of topics near and dear to owner-operators: parking/time stresses and the ELD mandate, unrealistic brokered rates and much more.
March 20, 2023
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'Estimated opening time is unknown': Winter from hell on I-80 in Wyoming
"Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's report from his own marooning two weeks back with road closures in frigid Wyoming, culminating a rash of closures this winter season and a threefold increase in related crash fatalities.
March 13, 2023
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How military service set these trucking entrepreneurs straight on course to success
A special Overdrive Radio marks Veterans Day, commemorating the military service of so many around the United States, and in American trucking. Here we honor the stories of two vets -- Army and Navy, respectively -- who are equally clear-eyed emphasizing what their service meant for their long careers as business owners.
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