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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

Freightliner Inspiration

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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.

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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'One thing led to another' for Lacoh Transport's custom 2024 Peterbilt 389 build

What started out as a modest build for a nice working truck turned into an all-out custom transformation by Geis Peterbilt's Cody McCandless. Along the way, "a lot of days that you don’t succeed," McCandless said, "but the challenge has been accepted, and we’re having fun with it.”

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