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Old dogs don’t need new tricks

The pull of the canine, in more ways than one: “People are a lot more inclined to be interested in a cute little dog than a big, burly trucker. Sorry, truckers.”

August 14, 2015

Latest road work zone obstruction in GA: A litter of kittens

The road construction season and its headaches no doubt both for truckers and the folks doing the construction this week got a little bit of aspirin in the form of something of a welcome obstruction…

May 28, 2015

Click through the image for the Oconee Enterprise’ full report on road worker Michael Crowe (pictured) and these particularly cute little obstructions.

Overdrive Radio

More voices on restart rollback; And a moving encounter off I-395 in Connecticut

Audio mailbag No. 2 on the restart as Congress mulls big spending bill; And: driver Scott LeVan’s encounter with Ben, a wounded German Shepherd, brings tears to a grown man’s eyes.

December 11, 2014

Sleep at home is overrated

Missing the lullaby of an idling truck… “If you have insomnia, I highly recommend it, though I doubt an insurance company will pay for a Freightliner as sleep therapy.”

October 17, 2014

train singing dog edit

Fallen driver Richard Sullivan’s ridealong companion is coming home

Karen Talbot of Animal Aid USA requests drivers flash their lights when they see the N.J.-based nonprofit’s van/trailer combo on the road Aug 20-21, and seeks drivers to participate in a Chatsworth, Ga., homecoming convoy.

August 12, 2014

Georgia-based Richard Sullivan

‘Anne Ferro would be proud’…

One ridealong pit bull that will be familiar to regular readers would “make Anne Ferro proud with his berth time and breaks…” More on rescued “Buddy Roe” and his travels from hauler Mary Hanlon.

April 21, 2014

Buddy Roe Mary Hanlon's pit bull edit

Overdrive Extra

Trained canine assists deaf trucker

Hearing-impaired driver Pete Kleckner’s relies on his service dog, Snickers, throughout his days.

February 3, 2014

Pit bulls in-cab: Resource for local laws?

In which reader Mary Hanlon adopts a pit bull and wonders, Is there a good central location to map routes to avoid locales with anti-pit ordinances? Any of the pit owners in the audience have suggestions?

January 4, 2014

Operator Hanlon certainly wouldn’t be the first driver to run with a pet pit. Gilbert (pictured) was an entry in our Most Loved Pets competition, recently rounded up. He’s the pet of owner-operator Lee Williams, who says he was adopted “from Villalobos Rescue Center” in New Orleans after having been there seven years following rescue from a California fighting ring. “We had applied to other places for a pet, but because we are truck drivers they wouldn’t adopt to us. Thank god Villalobos thought outside of the box.” Gilbert “loves riding…. His forever home is with us.”

More ‘bird business’: Share your ‘Most Loved Pet’

Checking in with Sammons-leased owner-operator Larry Leckrone, whose 25-year-old pet macaw Mugsy rides along with him in his 1962 C-model Kenworth.

October 4, 2013

Larry Leckrone and Mugsy

Tuna salad tames the savage beast

“I keep my eyes peeled for a pet while we’re on the road. Some of the best dogs I’ve ever had were strays, and it would be appropriate to find the truck dog on the road….” If only it were so simple.

April 5, 2013

Driver reunited with lost pup

Have you heard the one about the truck driver whose Yorkie pup slips out of the truck while he’s cooling his heels briefly at a Missouri rest area? Well, all’s well that ends well, and that one does, USA Today reported yesterday. The driver, Michael Siau, “didn’t realize that Rambo [the Yorkie] had slipped out […]

June 7, 2012

Operation Roger, Susanne Spirit get some national ink

Growing for a long moment, the Operation Roger network of volunteer haulers making themselves available to connect adopted pets with new caretakers — or to reunite lost pets with their owners — free of any charge got some ink this month. The MSNBC cable network did a story on them, and we’re happy to report […]

November 28, 2011

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