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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Report: Small carriers being hammered by bad rates, slow freight
Shippers are “pounding on rates,” the report says, referring to the present pricing situation as “rate carnage.” Small carriers like owner-operators are having a hard time keeping up, the report says.
July 14, 2016
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Rearview: Providing a forum for ‘The Voice’
Though the section has changed names and formats in the 55 years since its founding, Overdrive continues to build its reputation on championing reader representation and the principles they care about. The magazine cover still proudly uses the tagline “The Voice of the American Trucker.”
July 12, 2016
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‘Problem load’? No problem
Overdrive’s 2016 Most Beautiful winner Brita Nowak’s story is a great one, especially for independents trying to find new business. There are many skills to master as a single-truck owner-operator, but being up for a challenging run, like Nowak was, can land good business and steady paychecks.
July 11, 2016
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And this little piggy paved the road
There’s a lot of money to be saved if roads were paved with asphalt using processed pig manure, according to a team at North Carolina A&T State University.
July 5, 2016
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Being Brita: Overdrive’s Most Beautiful winner soars as an independent trucker
If anyone can model a competent, strong woman flourishing in a traditionally male-dominated business, it’s Brita Nowak, Overdrives 2016 Most Beautiful contest winner. More on Brita and her one-truck independent business here…
June 20, 2016
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Owner of classic W9 specializes in survival: ‘I refuse to lose’
John Jaikes is clearly a hard-working independent and a proud show truck exhibitor. What’s not so obvious is that he’s a survivor — of repeat bouts with cancer and a wreck with a possibly suicidal four-wheeler.
June 13, 2016
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Rearview: The heyday of mom and pop truck stops
Before the proliferation of large truck stop chains came to grace interstate highways, one-off mom-and-pop establishments found on two-lane highways were the norm. In the 1960s, the peak of such operations, Overdrive offered an advertising outlet for those small businesses to make their locations, products, services and amenities known to the nation’s independent truckers.
June 9, 2016
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SFD rule’s crash-risk disconnect: Data show most analyzed ‘Unfit’ carriers don’t crash
ASECTT’s Freedom of Information Act-obtained numbers show that 76 percent of carriers with five or fewer trucks, and who would have been flagged Unfit to operate under the proposed SFD’s parameters, recorded no crashes in the 12 months following the analyzed ‘Unfit’ determination. The numbers — and the questions they present about the proposed rule’s methodology — add to mounting pressure the agency’s faced since publishing the proposed rule in January.
June 3, 2016
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