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Peterbilt launches Model 587

Peterbilt Motors Co. today, March 24, introduced the new on-highway, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s SmartWay-certified Model 587. The company said as an evolution of its Model 387, the new Model 587 is Peterbilt’s new standard for on-highway fuel efficiency, technology and serviceability. Available with two sleepers or in a day cab configuration, the Model 587 […]

March 24, 2010

Business

Bendix announces offerings for International Trucks

Bendix’s SmarTire Tire Pressure Monitoring System now is offered as an option on International’s ProStar, TranStar and LoneStar models.

March 24, 2010

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Kenworth unveils aerodynamic T700 model

Expanding its lineup of aerodynamic Class 8 trucks, Kenworth Truck Co. today, March 24, introduced the T700.

March 24, 2010

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Back on the Road winner to be announced

The winner of the Back on the Road 2010 contest will be announced Friday, March 26, in Louisville, Ky., Arrow Truck Sales announced. In its third year, the competition benefits a deserving trucker in need of a truck and a job. The winner will receive the following products: A one-year lease on a 2007 VNL […]

March 22, 2010

Channel 19

Monday-morning wake-up call

I imagine many readers will have already taken note of the horrifying video of the Rona Williams’ Renault Clio hooked sideways to the front bumper of a big Arclid Transport cabover running at highway speeds on the UK’s A1 freeway for a minute or more before the rig’s driver noticed he’d been involved in an accident, […]

March 22, 2010

Business

Cobra to hold sweepstakes

Cobra Electronics will give away prizes at a sweepstakes during the March 25-27 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.

March 17, 2010

Business

Arrow Truck Sales to celebrate 60th anniversary this summer

Arrorw Truck Sales, based in Kansas City, Mo., is celebrating its 60th anniversary this summer.

March 17, 2010

Overdrive Extra

Distracted driving needs uniform restrictions

It’s a pity that it takes the heavy hand of government to ban practices that common sense would say are stupid, if not deadly. Such is the case with text messaging while driving, which the U.S. Dept. of Transportation recently outlawed for commercial drivers. Studies show that texting and related behaviors – talking on a […]

March 9, 2010

Channel 19

Watermelon Slim’s on-the-road ‘Escape From the Chicken Coop’

Clarksdale, Miss., resident, longtime Oklahoman and North Carolina-reared blues musicmaker Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans plays a mean slide guitar. And “I was an above-average harp player,” he says of his early years making music, his first record of work-song blues coming out in 1972. But when he hears what young blues players like Craig Lawler and Jason Ricci can […]

March 8, 2010

Business

‘Ice Roads’ returns for fourth season

The History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers” TV series will premiere its fourth season this spring.

March 5, 2010

Channel 19

Staring down coming CARB regs

A great story in the California-based Porterville Record highlighted the difficulties being faced by a particluar 5-truck fleet in Ducor, Calif., Andromeda Transport, owned by Dave Schwartz. Schwartz (pictured, right, with his mechanic), as he told reporter Sarah de Crescenzo, considers himself a “modern-day environmentalist” in his commitment to keeping his older trucks in tip-top operating […]

March 5, 2010

Business

Show off your rig

Overdrive selects the best of its readers’ truck photos that have been uploaded to our gallery for publication in each month’s issue. Click here to post your truck in the Custom Rigs/Overdrive online gallery. Darren “Thunder” Gouveia of Lucasville, Ohio, owns this 2006 Kenworth W900L. It will appear in the March Overdrive.

March 4, 2010