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Business

The Dipwad 500

Wendy on the most popular race going: “Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here. Truck stop racing is based on the premise that no one else around matters much, and safety is for the birds.”

March 2, 2016

Business

It’s the little things

The small stuff matters: Wendy offers kudos to the Pilot in Lincoln, Ala., for a small gesture that made the oasis just that, a true place to wash off the weariness of the long road.

February 29, 2016

Truck Stops

Sapp Bros. president named NATSO’s incoming chairman

Don Quinn, newly designated chairman at NATSO, stressed the importance of improving service to truck stop customers, America’s drivers, in his remarks to attendees of the NATSO show.

February 23, 2016

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new Holcomb, Kan. store

Love’s Travel Stops has opened a new location in Holcomb, Kan., giving the company its fifth Kansas store.

January 28, 2016

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new Valley, Neb. location

Love’s Travel Stops has announced the opening of a new location in Valley, Neb., along U.S. Highway 64 and U.S. Highway 275.

January 21, 2016

Overdrive Extra

When filmmakers hit the road with 1970s owner-operators

After interviewing drivers at a late 1970s truck show, the film collective Optic Nerve spent six weeks crossing the country to record drivers for a 30-minute documentary.

December 21, 2015

Business

In search of a decent hair barrette

“Sometimes, finding regular things when you’re on the road is hard.” Wendy’s search for a barrette not “encrusted with enough cut glass geegaws to start a fire in the direct sunlight” continues…

December 16, 2015

Parking

Top 20 worst states for truck parking

Though California tops Overdrive’s weighted rankings of the worst states for truck parking at No. 1, Northeast states occupied Nos. 2-6. Access news of new developments and more data in the top 20 list and these interactive maps.

December 14, 2015

Truck Stops

Love’s opens new locations in Kentucky, Oklahoma

Love’s Travel Stops has opened two new locations – one in Kentucky, and one in Oklahoma.

December 10, 2015

Parking

Parking: Data on rest areas v. truck stops

Data show that parking issues aren’t limited to states showing a high percentage of publicly controlled spaces or those with a high percentage of private spaces.

December 3, 2015

Parking

Parking: ‘It’s bad all over’

With a major study out and a new national coalition beginning regional meetings, the heat’s up on the increasing need for safe parking.

December 1, 2015

Channel 19

‘Do we need any more trucks in our community?’

What happens when a service shop wants to put in secured truck parking on their property — citizen backlash, citing “every kind of crime” trucks supposedly bring with them.

November 27, 2015