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October: They say it’s our birthday

You’ll find monthly features in Overdrive, starting with the October issue. That month we’ll also launch a 50th anniversary website, OverdriveRetro.com.

August 29, 2010

Channel 19

Rolling out to Dallas ‘Too Hot to Trot’ 5K

Well, folks, I finished — no surprise to regular readers, I’d guess, since you’ve seen a little proof I can do some long-distance running. Get over a couple miles, though, for me, and it hurts. Add to that the constant walking around the show floor at the Great American Trucking Show (picture from the bobtail lot) here in Dallas […]

August 27, 2010

Channel 19

Put your CD player in ‘Overdrive’ — hauler Joe Lee Smith reissues record

Sitting outside Overdrive sister mag CCJ‘s Commercial Vehicle Outlook Conference in Dallas yesterday and typing away on a story, one of the presenters, with whom I’ve talked in years past, walked by and nodded my way with a quip I’ve heard near countless times over the years from folks who know who I work for. “Put it […]

August 26, 2010

Channel 19

In defense of food transport

Tip of the hat to Marathon Trucker Jeff Clark for this one (and, readers, if you’ll be at the Great American Trucking Show, beginning this coming Thursday, join Clark and I and Jazzy Jordan, among so many others, at Truckers News‘ Fit for the Road program’s Too Hot to Trot 5K Friday morning)…. Self-described “liberal […]

August 24, 2010

Channel 19

Tune in tonight!

It’s going on a year since I chatted with Daniel Audet of Truckstar Radio for my Truckers News “Exit Only” piece about TruckStar Radio, his online radio show. Audet, formerly a hotshot boat hauler and industry blogger, is still going strong with TruckStar, and tonight I’ll visit with him on his show to talk about […]

August 23, 2010

Channel 19

Wiper blades with a cause

The folks behind the AutoTex Pink wiper blades tell me the blades are sized to fit 85 percent of heavy-duty trucks on the road, as well as all manner of autos — but that’s not the most interesting thing about them. The idea behind the blades comes from wiper-blade manufacturer Wexco Industries cofounder Paula Lombard, […]

August 20, 2010

Channel 19

Honeybees get revenge on bear

North Carolina Wake County Sheriff’s Deputy Brandon Jenkins had to sit in his cruiser for upwards of 15 hours yesterday after a truck driver under a load of honeybees had been disabled west of Raleigh. “The truck driver,” CNN reported, was on his way to Rocky Mount, N.C., and “had been hauling the bees at […]

August 19, 2010

Channel 19

Ice roads to Dallas; truck lot entertainment schedule for GATS

Next week, it’s safe to say that all roads in the North American trucking world lead to Dallas, even the Canadian ice roads — or at least those typically run by Yellowknife, Canada’s Alex Debogorski, past “Ice Road Truckers” star, who will be on hand at the Dallas Convention Center for the Great American Trucking […]

August 18, 2010

Channel 19

WNBA star and her mother, a former trucker, recognized by industry organization

Did you know that the most decorated player in the WNBA (and a four-time Olympic gold medal winner besides), former L.A. Sparks star Lisa Leslie, grew up the daughter of a career truck driver? I didn’t, that is, until last week, when at the Staples Center in Los Angeles during a game between the Sparks […]

August 17, 2010

Overdrive Extra

‘Monster train’ and other freight supersizers

You might have missed news of Union Pacific testing to see just how long a train can be. I didn’t know of it until reading a Wall Street Journal story this week. Writer Jennifer Levitz cites the train as an example of pressures in rail and ocean shipping, as well as trucking, to haul more […]

August 17, 2010

Channel 19

Live online CD release party for ‘When the Big Rigs Don’t Roll’

Join the www.AsktheTrucker.com proprietors this Wednesday for a live online exclusive release event for a new record aimed squarely at the politically conscious among you. “When the Big Rigs Don’t Roll” is its title, and the country musicians/songwriters behind the 10 songs on the CD, David Ayers and Barry Allen, have birthed several winners in […]

August 16, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking shutterbugs bring it in Truckers News first photo contest

Photographers brought pretty stunning images to the online photo forum we host at the the Flickr.com photo site for the first, July contest on the theme of “Junked or Forgotten Trucks/Trailers.” Check out Bob McGilvray’s runner-up “Rusy”  here to see the quality of the work sent in from around the nation (McGilvray’s been featured in […]

August 13, 2010