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Business

First Volvo truck built in Va. facility comes back

A 1982 Volvo F7, the first model to be produced in the US, has a new home at the Volvo Trucks Customer Center thanks to the Wilson family of Wilson Trucking.

August 21, 2018

Custom Rigs

Junior Elmore’s 1975 Diamond Reo cabover No. 12, or: The corn-fed kid in Nebraska

Don Christner takes you inside Junior Elmore's 1975 Diamond Reo cabover. From the two-cycle V8 Detroit Diesel engine to its dual stacks, take a look today.

August 13, 2018

Overdrive Extra

The chicken-little tactics behind the ‘driver shortage’

Here is a breakdown of how and why the trucking industry continuously responds to the shortage of truck drivers. Some aren't taking the bait anymore.

August 2, 2018

Channel 19

One owner-operator’s meditation on old glory

Around half of owner-operators report celebration from the road/business as usual today, when much of America takes time off to celebrate the Fourth; a bit of history and independence day appreciated from the National Weather Service; and this and more from Gordon Alkire: “Our Red White and Blue is a symbol of unity.” …

July 4, 2018

Custom Rigs

The classic trucks of retired small fleet owner Junior Elmore of Wyoming

Don Christner stops to photograph retired small fleet owner Junior Elmore's collection of classic trucks from the '70s and '80s. Check them out on Overdrive.

May 16, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: Retired hauler and fleet owner Theldon Thornburgh

The latest in Long Haul Paul’s series capturing voices from the road: Theldon Thornburgh reflects on his long career, beginning in a 1930s/40s gas-powered International: “I was pretty lucky. I think I traveled 5.2 million miles and never did have a chargeable accident…”

April 30, 2018

Channel 19

Pup in need of a rolling home, and: 411 on a spare July 1980 Overdrive?

Bullpen Rescue of Georgia believes it has the perfect ridealong companion for a highway hauler among the rescue dogs for whom it’s trying to find a home. And: On the 20th anniversary of Peter Gallicchio’s trucking father’s death, he’s in search of a particular Overdrive issue where the family’s company mini Crosley tractor-trailer was featured.

March 2, 2018

Voices

POLL: Where are your family’s roots — in the U.S. or outside it?

Do your roots in the United States reach back multiple generations or fewer? Share your experience/history in this poll.

January 2, 2018

Channel 19

Remembering Carl Rhodes — with his son, Rick — after well more than a half century trucking

Rhodes was a fixture of Morgantown, W.Va.-area trucking business since his own father hauled pulpwood in a 1932 Ford. Carl passed August 14, 2020.

November 6, 2017

Custom Rigs

A salute to the 'Old Filthy' 1957 Kenworth fuel hauler

For this week's Overdrive 60th-anniversary installment, the story of how one longtime hauler came to own one of his first employers’ classic 1957 Kenworth 925. “Old Filthy” was the first truck bought new by Montana-based owner-operator Gene Ballinger.

May 15, 2017

Custom Rigs

The day five famous 70s/80s rigs made history on 'Hollywood Hill'

A firsthand account of the event, bringing together restored trucks from movies “Duel,” “Convoy," and “Smokey & the Bandit” with “Movin’ On” and “B.J. & the Bear” TV rigs — among others at the Southern Classic Truck Show in 2016.

December 21, 2016

Business

And our flag was still there…

Wendy offers a history in brief of the the U.S. national anthem, and a note of the bedrock love of country that guides so many of us.

July 3, 2016