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Channel 19

Hazmat tank owner-op Bill Weaver’s ‘Number Three’ delivered as promised; batting, and battling, with giants

It’s a new day, and a new record, for liquid bulk tank-hauling owner-operator Bill Weaver with his “Number Three.” And: Update on owner-operator Howard Salmon, who’s thankful for support he’s felt from the trucking community as his son battles cancer, and bats a bit with a few local MLB pitchers.

February 11, 2020

Overdrive Extra

Long Haul Paul’s best of 2019: Trucking album, show and roadside eats

“Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer singles out a few overlooked superlatives from the year, as it comes to a close: The Franklin County Trucking Company’s all-star punked-out trucking record, the Pennsylvania Truckers 4 Hope show, and a Cambridge, Ind., Punjabi restaurant just off I-70.

December 31, 2019

Channel 19

Gather ’round the fire — A Christmas playlist curated by Overdrive readers

Seven years ago around this time of the year, Overdrive asked readers to name the “best Christmas song of all time.” From a big list, readers then voted on a final list — these songs represent the results, from bottom to top. Bonus: A selection of trucking-themed holiday tunes. Merry Christmas.

December 24, 2019

Channel 19

Long Haul Paul’s ‘… in the Big Hole Now’; Will Beeley’s Texas history with Steve Earle

Trucker-songwriter Will Beeley sits down for a run back through shared history with well-known songwriter and actor Steve Earle. Long Haul Paul’s new record spinning out into the world as we speak — a sneak peek in this video from Rocky Mountain Bull Hauler Doug Worthing for “We in the Big Hole Now.”

December 12, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Listen: Talent Search winner Taylor Barker’s new musical bonds; Brumbach Stephens hauls one giant tree

Listen: Owner-operator and Trucker Talent Search winner on trucking, music and life in general in-studio from Nashville, likewise former small fleet owner now with Wilbanks Trucking, Brumbach Stephens, on the haul of a lifetime with this year’s Capitol Christmas tree.

November 29, 2019

Channel 19

New vid/single from Bill Weaver: ‘This Ole Girl and Me’

The new one from tank owner-op Bill Weaver will also be featured on a new record, his third over the last five or so years. That record will be called “Number 3,” simply put. When we talked, the tanker yanker was fresh of cutting two of the last featured tracks at Leon Everette’s studio in South Carolina. …

November 20, 2019

Business

NASTC’s ‘America’s Best Drivers’ team named for 2019 attendant to annual conference

As longtime NASTC leader David Owen has it, these men and women represent the bread and butter of any small trucking business, and the hands-down safest, altogether best drivers around. Also: Scenes from Nashville singer-songwriters’ warm-up for NASTC’s drivers-of-the-year celebration this coming Saturday,

October 31, 2019

Overdrive Radio

‘Highways and heart attacks’ to trucker Will Beeley’s place in the American songbook

Today on Overdrive Radio: Will Beeley’s new “Highways and Heart Attacks” record is the singer-songwriter and hazmat pressurized tank hauler’s third full-length record, and his first in 40 years. His story in music reaches back to the late 1960s, runs through an iconic record label in Mississippi and extends on up into the present day.

October 29, 2019

Life

UPDATED: Music to truck by — Overdrive’s curated playlist

Our updated playlist features music from emerging talents among drivers, great driving music, live tracks, podcast interviews with established artists and more.

October 29, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Tony Justice: No ‘crystal ball’ for hours proposal’s post-Martinez future; Jason Lee Wilson live in a cave

Past Overdrive talent search winner Jason Lee Wilson live from a cave, Tony Justice from a speedway, and: Justice says, well, unlike so many out there, he doesn’t seem to be able to get his crystal ball powered up when it comes to predicting the future of the proposed hours changes post-Martinez.

October 18, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Never underestimate a South Carolina watermelon hauler: Carroll Fulmer and Leon Everette

The latest in “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer’s “Faces of the Road” series with country legend and current gospel singer Leon Everette: “I was surprised to learn that Everette attributed his past success in the music business in part to a trucker by the name of Carroll Fulmer. … Yeah, that Carroll Fulmer …”

September 25, 2019

Overdrive Radio

18 years old and hauling in 1917; Leon Everettte, Long Haul Paul from GATS

In this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast from GATS, classic country star and gospel singer Leon Everette, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer, and a talk about history, training and more with Jay Thompson, whose grandfather Walter had a chauffer’s license at age 18, in 1917.

August 24, 2019