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Overdrive’s CSA exposé wins a top journalism award
Overdrive won the Grand Neal Award for its series of stories and interactive website on the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.
March 14, 2014
Business
Lizards and idiot four-wheelers
Every person I discuss our travels with asks two questions, ‘Where do you go to the bathroom?’ and ‘Have you seen a Lot Lizard?’
August 2, 2012
Channel 19
A look at a Mexican hauler’s business
A window into the life and hauling business of a third-generation independent Mexican trucker in 2012, full of extortion, graft, shakedown…
July 27, 2012
Voices
Hot-button: Job Creation
July 26, 2012
Overdrive Extra
PHOTOS: Cover shoot outtakes with crude hauler
Find a photo gallery of Overdrive’s July 2012 cover shoot with crude-hauling owner-operator Jimmy Lessley in Texas — and more about how the owner-operator got into the oil business.
July 26, 2012
Channel 19
Oil/gas boom in N.D. generates owner-operator opportunities
A report from an NPR listener bemoaned truck traffic in his native Watford City, N.D., associated with the oil boom — but that boom is proving golden for many owner-operators.
July 26, 2012
Channel 19
Awesome trucks and the fruits of debate: Two events upcoming
Round-up of two events upcoming: the big 2nd Annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention meeting Oct. 27-28 and the ATHS Cookeville, Tenn., truck show Sept. 27-28.
July 25, 2012
Channel 19
Reader: Repeal FLSA trucking exemption
The following comes by way of owner-operator Joe Ammons, who is looking for assistance with a petition for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation (or Congress) to repeal the trucking exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act, which among other things specifies the 40-hour workweek and 8-hour day for employees of companies in other industries — […]
July 24, 2012
Overdrive Extra
High-altitude jumper was also a …
Yeah, you guessed it. Today over on the CCJ blog find the story of onetime New Jersey-based truck driver Nick Piantanida (pictured), who also holds the distinction of being a 1960s pioneer of extreme high-altitude skydiving — and who holds the unofficial record for the highest-ever manned balloon flight, 123,500 feet. He was trying to beat a […]
July 24, 2012
Channel 19
What’s cool about being a truck driver? Video contest details
The Minnesota Trucking Association is holding a video contest offering $1,000 to the winning entry that best answers the question “What would be cool about being a truck driver?”
July 24, 2012
Channel 19
Diesel exhaust listed by WHO as cancer causing agent
The International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, has formally categorized diesel exhaust as cancer-causing but fails to recognize advancements in diesel technology in the developed world.
July 23, 2012
Business
Sammons Trucking operator found
UPDATE 7/24: Place has been located. James Place, pictured below with his Sammons Trucking brown Kenworth T660, truck no. 1105 in the fleet, has been missing since Friday, according to the company — visit the Sammons Facebook page for more information, and call 406-327-2440 with any intel on his whereabouts. He was pulling a flatbed, […]
July 23, 2012
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