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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.
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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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Steel hauler recalls cabovers, wreck runaways and more from six decades
When Richard Maxwell started driving, cabovers were common, truck stop amenities were sparse and Dwight Eisenhower was still president.
September 22, 2016
For 18 years, Richard Maxwell has been driving a Caterpillar-powered 1984 Peterbilt 359, pulling a Benson flatbed.
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Rearview: Covering custom
Workhorses increasingly became show horses in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with style-minded owner-operators turning to aftermarket lights, chrome, graphics, paint and more to convert their rigs into things of beauty. Overdrive began covering the trend and started the first major truck beauty show, Overdrive’s Pride & Polish, in 1991.
September 8, 2016
One of the biggest repeat winners in Pride & Polish’s early years was Darian Stephens, who showed a bevy of trucks in the 1990s and early 2000s. His 1995 Freightliner Classic XL, shown here, won Best of Show, Bobtail, at the 1998 Mid-America Trucking Show.
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When regulation hurts worse than paltry pay
When nearly two-thirds of truckers (for owner-operators alone, 71 percent), working ridiculously long hours for modest pay, are far more aggravated over regulations and lack of respect than they are money, something’s amiss. It’s no surprise that turnover stays high.
September 7, 2016
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Saving time with curtainside trailer, losing it with detention
“So now you get your phone out, take a nap, find something to occupy your time,” said steel hauler Jeremy Johnson said. “I just sit here and wait till they get it all sorted out at my expense.”
August 18, 2016
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A look at truckers’ highway tax bill from 2014
The trucking industry in 2014 raked in $726.4 billion in freight revenue, according to a recent report from ATA. Here’s how much of that went to highway use taxes.
August 17, 2016
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How Covenant relies on teams for its edge
The company has about 900 teams and 375 solo drivers. About 90 of the trucks are owner-operated. For hazmat-certified owner-operators, the team opportunities include 100 percent no-touch freight, $1.03 per mile, a safety bonus, a $1,000 monthly bonus to each team that runs 15,000 miles, and other benefits.
August 12, 2016
Hazmat-certified team owner-operators at Covenant enjoy 100 percent no-touch freight, bonus opportunities and other benefits.
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Owner-operator Dan Heister on the right loads, tolerating ‘trucking’s BS’ and the importance of savings accounts
While others are sitting, Heister’s rolling. And his strategy pays him well: He’s brought home more than $100,000 in annual net income several times since the recession, and he topped $90,000 last year.
August 9, 2016
Owner-operator Dan Heister hauls flatbed for Boyd Bros.
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Trucking inspires stunning landscape photography
Royce, 45, has spent all three of her driving years teamed with her husband, Greg Royce, who was her trainer while leased to Prime, Inc. She grabbed a camera two years ago, while she was still in her permit stage and studying to complete her CDL. Here’s a look at some of her work.
August 5, 2016
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Rearview: Overdrive takes on the Teamsters
From the early 1960s to the early ’80s, rarely did an issue of Overdrive leave the printer without one or more articles accusing the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters of widespread corruption, misuse of truckers’ dues and violent bullying tactics aimed at its detractors.
August 3, 2016
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Trying to fix the detention problem
I just sit here and wait till they get it all sorted out,” Johnson said when he finally figured out the bungled paperwork situation at his drop, learning it would cost him another two or three hours. “Guess who gets screwed in the meantime.”
August 1, 2016
“I just sit here and wait till they get it all sorted out,” says flatbedder Jeremy Johnson.
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