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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

Overdrive Radio

Longtime TA Nashville employees recount historic 2010 flood, support and recovery

Listen: Getting close to the 10th anniversary of the historic flooding of Nashville in 2010, employees at the downtown TA who were there when it happened recount the rising waters, their relationships with longtime driver customers, and the recovery process in this podcast. Also: Why are some TA Petro stops moving away from traditional diners? HOS has something to do with it …

July 30, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Remembering the inaugural Pennsylvania Make-a-Wish Mother's Day convoy

A special edition of Overdrive Radio looks way back into history to the first Make-A-Wish convoy to set off from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with former trucker George Ruelens, hauling for Ned Bard & Son at the time. This year's convoy sets off May 9.

May 24, 2019

Custom Rigs

Portrait of two classics: ’71 Autocar and its paint scheme’s inspiration, ’74 Diamond Reo goes to the museum

Ohio-based heavy equipment operator James Green hunts down the inspiration for his late father’s 1971 Autocar’s paint scheme in a 1980 Overdrive issue, and donates his grandfather’s 1974 Diamond Reo, his final truck, to the Iowa 80 trucking museum. Take a run through some of that history with Green here.

May 8, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Recalling Mass 10 Truck Stop – ‘The Dump’ – and its owner, who treated truckers like royalty

The Mass 10 Truck Stop and its bighearted owner Gene Murphy were known by many truckers of the ‘60s and ‘70s who ran in New England.

April 1, 2019

Overdrive Radio

1970s, 2010s trucking parallels, and: Hauling away (or into) the headaches with a cargo van

In this edition of Overdrive Radio find audio from part of Max Heine’s talk with John Strong about his memories of the 1970s and beyond, and more from my own sit-down with Load One’s John Elliott, about headache boxes checked by the cargo van hauling niche in expediting — not without its significant challenges…

March 8, 2019

Channel 19

Remembering Eddie Karwaski of former Penn. small fleet Apple House Trucking

Karwaski passed a year ago this past Tuesday, Feb. 26, says his daughter. Apple House Trucking closed in 2007 as the recession took hold, after having grown to a height of around 50 trucks in the early 1990s. Earlier than that, its distinctive blue/gold/white paint scheme was featured twice in Overdrive.

February 28, 2019

Overdrive Extra

61 years trucking — and counting

Truck driver James Tharp shares some of history based on his 61 (and still going strong) year career as a truck driver. Read what he has to share here.

February 11, 2019

Custom Rigs

The 1972 Peterbilt 359 flagship of Smokin’ S Customs

Results of Steve Snelson’s years of work on this daycab. Snelson notes the rig remains a work in progress, details of which he takes up when he has the time. Less and less of that available as the Smokin’ S Customs business attracts more customers.

December 13, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: Bluesman and former trucker Watermelon Slim fails better

Long Haul Paul’s latest in the “Faces of the Road” series details the life and career of former hauler (and so much else besides)/international blues sensation Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans, out with a new record, “Church of the Blues.” As Slim puts it: “I’ve had a little success in a life marked mostly by failure.”

December 4, 2018

Overdrive Extra

‘Highway Hellion’ Meredith Ochs’ new history of women in rock music

Most in trucking might best know Ochs as cohost of the former Freewheelin’ program on Sirius XM’s Road Dog Trucking Radio channel, but her exhaustive knowledge of music stems from decades as both a broadcaster and writer in multiple genres.

November 12, 2018

Custom Rigs

Memorial Run: A T680 honoring fallen firefighters rolls

When asked what he'd like in a new truck, Randy Rogers requested it to be a memorial to firefighters. Check out his Kenworth T680, Memorial Run, on Overdrive.

August 22, 2018