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Keller-sponsored musher pulls out another Iditarod win

Dallas Seavey broke the all-time duration record with a big win in the Alaskan Iditarod race this week.

March 12, 2014

Tour of duty: Owner-operator of the year candidate Bryan Smith

Smith leveraged military experience toward a driving career, truck ownership and longtime success as an owner-operator leased to Art Pape Transfer.

October 2, 2013

Bryan Smith and his 2009 Peterbilt 386, powered by 600-hp Cummins engine. Smith, nominated this year for the Truckload Carriers Association’s Owner-Operator of the Year award, was also Overdrive‘s Trucker of the Month in March of 2011.

Rate undercutting getting worse?

Independents are feeling the pinch in certain quarters — some contend rate undercutting by other carriers without the business sense to make a healthy profit are a sizable part of the problem.

September 26, 2013

Recognize this 1978 Mack R-767ST? It’s a replica owner-operator Robert Steele put together of the Rubber Duck 1978 RS700L used in Sam Peckinpah’s class “Convoy” film. The truck, powered by an old 500 Cummins, Steele says, shows but one difference from the 1978 RS700L used in the film — the top of the hood is not quite as tall. Steele had to modify the RS700L grille to fit the 767. Steele uses the rig only sparingly, but says it’d look great at the head of a convoy. Read his letter appealing for greater industry unity in our Voices section here.

Rodney McCloud: ‘Fittest of the fleet’

With McCloud coming out on top of its fitness competition, Prime challenges other carriers to host their own Fittest events using the same format in order to bring together the champions of each fleet into a national competition.

September 9, 2013

Hard choices judging Overdrive’s Most Beautiful

“I learned more in the hour and a half we spent with these ladies than I have in a very long time. These women know their business, and they all know their way around a truck.”

August 25, 2013

“I learned more in the hour and a half we spent with these ladies than I have in a very long time. These women know their business, and they all know their way around a truck.” –Wendy Parker on interviewing Overdrive’s Most Beautiful finalists (from left) Maggie Stone, Libby Clayton and Tina Comer. Stone was named the winner of the competition Saturday, Aug. 24, at GATS 2013.

VIDEOS, PICS: Western Stars at N.Y. truck pull

Ralph Dineen Jr. and son came out on top of the competitive truck pull at the Broome County Fair in Whitney Point, N.Y. Vids and a gallery of photos of their run here.

August 3, 2013

Ralph Dineen and Jr. in the elder's 2000 Western Star

Plaintiffs’ written arguments filed in CSA suit

A group of carriers, brokers and other trucking stakeholders filed written arguments in its case against FMCSA alleging agency overreach with its May CSA guidance.

January 3, 2013

One hauler’s rate benchmark and more on pricing

Two operators share views on methods toward boosting rates to profitable levels — one offering a perspective in favor of price re-regulation.

December 20, 2012

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Funny car driver at the Mack assembly plant

Bob Tasca III’s NHRA contending funny car is newly being sponsored by Mack — here check out the hauling Pinnacle tractor the race team picked up this past week at Mack’s customer center.

December 15, 2012

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The safety argument for increased pay

At U.S. House hearing on CSA, concerns about driver pay were aired with contentions that better nondriving-time compensation was much needed.

July 30, 2012

Log-haulers, Bastrop County TX wants you

In addition to the Lost Pines Log Pull competition Bastrop nonprofit Logs to Lumber is hosting this coming weekend to add competitive spirit to their efforts harvesting viable timber from an area devastated by wildfires last year and help more than 1,700 homeowners rebuild, Jamaica Morz, working with the organization, could also use a little […]

May 21, 2012

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‘Shipping Wars’ hotshot reality TV show extended

The Shipping Wars reality TV show, launched earlier this year and featuring the work of several hotshot owner-operators competing for earnings by bidding on and moving freight from the uShip.com online marketplace, hasn’t exactly lit up the trucking world with interest in the manner of, say, the Ice Road Truckers show at its height, but the […]

April 25, 2012

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