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'What extortion looks like': Owner-operator Glenn Keller v. Parking Pirates, round 2
Keller, following a booting/attempted tow incident while he was sitting idling in the driver's seat last month, is on a mission to raise awareness to predatory practices targeting truckers. Hear his 911 call and his own analysis in today's podcast.
May 14, 2021
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Rising oil prices -- for this dry bulk hauler, there's far less fear than opportunity
Oil services fleet Sisu Energy owns no trucks or trailers itself, nor do dispatch personnel at the company. Owner-ops leased there take that to heart as evidence the company’s sticking to its mission to be a platform where owner-operators can thrive.
May 5, 2021
truck at natural gas site
Trucking History
Trucking history added to 'Overdrive’s Music to Truck By'
If you like your trucking music seasoned with a little trucking trivia, don’t miss “Big Al” Weekley’s show Friday morning.
April 29, 2021
David Macon
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Remembering the inaugural Pennsylvania Make-a-Wish Mother's Day convoy
A special edition of Overdrive Radio looks way back into history to the first Make-A-Wish convoy to set off from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with former trucker George Ruelens, hauling for Ned Bard & Son at the time. This year's convoy sets off May 9.
May 24, 2019
make-a-wish convoy
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CSA's Achilles' Heel: Exposed carrier data
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, views on unintended consequences that continue to be big problems for carriers. The entire trucking, enforcement and regulator community should do a lot better, two panelists contend, working together to solve issues.
April 23, 2021
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'Overdrive's Music to Truck By' features 1960s hitmaker, current artist
An interview with 1960s singer Claude Gray, along with a focus on Jason Lee Wilson, 2016 winner of the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search, will be highlights of Friday's “Overdrive’s Music to Truck By."
April 22, 2021
Jason Lee Wilson and James County, pictured from the Caverns venue near Monteagle, Tennessee, will feature on the Friday, April 23, edition of Overdrive's Music to Truck By.
Trucking History
What's behind 'Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel'
This Red Sovine classic celebrated heroic wives and mothers, who shouldered the burdens of maintaining a household while their husbands drove over the road. It also subtly addressed doubts either spouse might have about the other ...
April 19, 2021
a woman resting her elbow on a clothesline with a sad face
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How to build a small fleet that's a destination for the best
Hear what brought this owner in less than ten years from hauling chicken litter with an old daycab to a 20-truck, 40-reefer-trailer fleet, two of whose operators were No. 1 and 2 in their state's driver of the year awards for 2021.
April 16, 2021
Mack RD688S truck
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Owner-ops aren't company drivers for a reason
Fundamentally, though abuses of the contractor model are real in many industries, including in trucking, owner-ops seek ownership for a reason. ATBS details strong 2020 income to benchmark against, worries about ABC contractor test, much more in podcast.
April 9, 2021
The independent trucker we will not go away protest sign
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Over the Road reality creeps toward 'automated future'?
In the finale of Overdrive Radio's re-air of the OTR podcast, a long look with Long Haul Paul Marhoefer at both skeptics and proselytizers of trucking automation, with plenty emphasis on where truckers stand in today's on-highway reality.
April 2, 2021
Empty Seat
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Hey, mate, this classic American trucking song isn’t exactly American ... or much about trucking
"I've Been Everywhere," one of trucking's classic American road songs, has roots in another continent. Decades before Johnny Cash's popular rendition, it was recorded by Hank Snow and others.
March 29, 2021
Hank Snow
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Roadcheck preps in a mobile-heavy state, where inspection numbers continue up
In today's Overdrive Radio, an Alabama captain explains his state's continued emphasis on inspection screening via "virtual weigh stations" with weigh-in-motion and/or other technologies for inspection screening. Also: Plenty Roadcheck tips for May 4-6.
March 26, 2021
Semi-truck stopped at a scale
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Long Haul Paul's 'Long Haul of Fame' through trucking history
What emerges over the course of this Overdrive Radio re-air of the OTR podcast's episode 7 is a vivid take on recent trucking history through six individual stories, including that of host Long Haul Paul himself.
March 19, 2021
Marhoefer, Ken Waugh, 'Fast Freddie' Lieb, and Idella Marie Hansen
Overdrive Radio
Listen: Introducing Rylan Brooks' 'If Wishes Were Horses'
Nate Rylan and Chris Brooks’ hard-driving country rock stems from a songwriting collaboration that blossomed on the road when Rylan came aboard with Brooks’ independent owner-operator business as a codriver several years back.
March 12, 2021
Rylan Brooks album cover for If Wishes Were Horses
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OTR podcast rewind -- 'Our Punjabi brothers'
In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast episode, we drop into October of 2017, amid the demonstrations on both coasts and some points in between against the ELD mandate that, out west, were led by the Punjabi-American trucking community.
March 5, 2021
beginning of truck convoy from yuba city
Trucking History
First hit trucker song in history channeled road woes
Louisianan Ted Daffan visited honky-tonks frequented by truck drivers to help write his 1939 hit "Truck Driver's Blues." Find more about what's believed to be the first national hit of a trucking song in this Songs of the Highway special-edition podcast.
March 1, 2021
A sketch of a truck being loaded or unloaded sometime between 1935-1939
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The long tail of the CB's social utility
Owner-operator Mike Crawford in this Overdrive Radio edition expands on some of the themes showcased earlier this week in our special-edition podcast in part about the ongoing safety utility, and the decreased cultural importance, of the CB in trucking.
February 26, 2021
Mike Crawford sitting in a truck stop booth
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Use the CB -- it works
For Overdrive's 60th-anniversary series, a look back at the emphasis readers have placed on the citizen's band radio as a primary safety tool in dangerous driving conditions, right up to the present moment, and highway culture through history.
February 22, 2021
cb radio mic in truck cab
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'What extortion looks like': Owner-operator Glenn Keller v. Parking Pirates, round 2
Keller, following a booting/attempted tow incident while he was sitting idling in the driver's seat last month, is on a mission to raise awareness to predatory practices targeting truckers. Hear his 911 call and his own analysis in today's podcast.
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