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Business

Is this a red flag?

Dear Carolyn, I’ve been dating a new guy for about three months now and everything is going well. He’s smart, cute, funny and ambitious. He also owns his own truck and is about to buy two more trucks and start a small company. That’s the good news. The bad news is that when we go […]

March 30, 2012

Channel 19

Owner-operator bags Victory Vegas Jackpot bike

The bike Long Haul Trucking-leased owner-operator Steve Wright is sitting on is a 2012 Victory Vegas Jackpot cycle that was the grand prize in a contest begun by the Albertville, Minn.-based carrier at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., last year. This year, after Wright joined two other finalists — owner-operator Jeff Christenson […]

March 29, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Check out April issue of Overdrive

Read James Jaillet’s great story on the pros and cons of reprogramming your engine in the digital edition of Overdrive.

March 28, 2012

Channel 19

Owner-operators deliver in MATS EOBR listening sessions

If you haven’t read the report my colleague James Jaillet filed from the Mid-America Trucking Show on the Friday listening sessions the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration conducted on the subject of electronic on-board recorders for hours of service compliance, find it here. Time and again, operators urged regulators to address the real problems in […]

March 27, 2012

Business

Cracking Evel Knievel’s forgotten safe

Host Robb Mariani got quite a surprise when he was filming an episode of “American Trucker.” See an exclusive video of what was found during restoration of a 1974 Mack FS700.

March 27, 2012

Business

Ugly today: pay to park, canceled load

Security told us to pay to park, then a load canceled later in the day.

March 26, 2012

Channel 19

Meet owner-operator of the year Larry Severson

Leased to Dart Transit since the late 1970s, Truckload Carriers Association/Overdrive Independent Contractor of the Year Larry Severson’s longevity with the company beats that of even some of the Oren-family management. Dan Oren, grandson of the company’s founder and one of three brothers who continue to be active participants among the company’s family ownership, remembers […]

March 25, 2012

Business

Developing a spreadsheet for expediters

Our spectacular scenic drive continued today. I worked on spreadsheets when we parked for the night.

March 25, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Driver to FMCSA: ‘Stop coming after us!’

Owner-operator Greg Petit gave federal regulators a mouthful Friday morning during a hearing to get input on electronic onboard recorders.

March 24, 2012

Channel 19

Stories from MATS: Perkins on a heavy haul

Perkins Specialized Transportation has launched the biggest series of hauls in its history. The Northfield, Minn.-based company specializes in super loads — the biggest, longest, heaviest cargo allowed on the nation’s highways. Over 40 years the firm has grown from a dozen workers and trucks to 65 employees and 22 heavy-haul rigs. It hauls everything from steam turbines and […]

March 23, 2012

Business

Loathe to deadhead but may have to

We spent a pleasant day in Sparks, Nev. today but are still sitting here without freight to haul.

March 23, 2012

Channel 19

Classic Trucker’s Jumbo sandwich overhauled

Today’s post by Overdrive Managing Editor Lucinda Coulter The Trucker’s Jumbo hoagie at Ray’s Steel City Saloon in Tallahassee, Fla., used to be full of bologna — fried bologna Pittsburgh-style, that is — with everything else piled inside. A tradition of the Steel City’s mill districts, the Trucker’s Jumbo was first prepared for truckers and steel […]

March 22, 2012