Five from Overdrive: The problem of uncompensated time, HOS driving drivers out of the industry,more on cargo theft

Oct 28, 2013

Updated Oct 30, 2013

Overdrive editor Jack Roberts weighs in today on the problem of uncompensated driver time, cargo theft craziness as well as Wendy Parker on the indestructible bluetooth speaker.

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For the cabover fans out there, this stunning unit was built by J.R. Schleuger out of Britt, Iowa. It's a 1985 Kenworth K100E.

Super trucks show out at SuperRigs

Around 60 trucks are registered with more continuing to file in at the three-day Shell Rotella SuperRigs event at the Love's Travel Stops location in Hampshire, Illinois, just west of Chicago off I-90. Here's a small sampling of the rigs on display.

See the full infographic below for more detail on how focused the shaded states are compared to the national average for hours of service violations.

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