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Overdrive Extra
Why $6,000 from Chicago to Long Island is no longer enough
Huck Northcutt is a former Army cook turned flatbed driver. This Face of the Road recounts nightmare loads and what trips just aren't worth the money anymore.
July 30, 2018
Channel 19
Tuesday round-up: Miracle on the road, and ‘retirements’ accelerate at Wes Memphis’ fleet in wake of e-log transition
A truck rolls safely with “no ELD, no ABS, no ERG, no SCR no DEF?” What gives? one reader cracks wise. And Wes Memphis returns to the blog with a suggestion that, should biz consultant Jeffrey Hayzlett’s rule of thirds apply to post-ELD mandate trucking, there will be “no lack of trucking jobs”…
June 6, 2017
Channel 19
‘Learning to truck’ with W. Joel Baker, and a verse salute from Kevin Barrett
Owner-operator W. Joel Baker, founder of the free TruckBytes accounting software for owner-ops, launches a new resource site for those getting into the business, LearnToTruck.com. And: Kevin Barrett’s rhyming couplets salute the driver.
March 17, 2017
Business
I heard the Jakes on Christmas day…
A Christmas poem and merry wish from Wendy and the Parker family: “I heard the Jakes on Christmas day / Their old familiar bellows play / Low and deep the blasts repeat / Of food on tables, good will to men.” …
December 23, 2016
Business
The Haven
Wendy’s parody of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” poem details an encounter with a local LEO tap tap tapping on the driver’s door: “I’m here for sleep, and nothing more.”
December 12, 2016
Channel 19
A poem for a truck-driving father, from a son
“What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver,” by writer Geffrey Davis, is one any father or son will be able to appreciate.
June 27, 2016
Channel 19
Creative uses for the Reader Rigs gallery: Poetry
Reader Richard King this week posted what might be the first bit of poetry to grace the halls of Overdrive’s Reader Rigs photo gallery: Find his “Harvest Man” here.
January 28, 2016
Channel 19
Drivers’ Night Before Christmas — a tribute from a dispatcher
Chipman Relocations’ Tina Pastore sends this poem out to all company employees and contracting owner-operators in advance of the Christmas holiday, a fitting driver tribute this time of year.
December 24, 2015
Business
Ode to the highway bill
Rhyming couplets for the road: “Here I sit, all pieced and sideways / Came to fix the broken highways / Ended up a pork-filled deed / To satisfy the gubmint greed …”
November 13, 2015
Life
Driver’s night before Christmas, take two
Chipman Relocations dispatcher Tina Pastore rings Christmas Eve in with another ‘Night before Christmas’ take-off.
December 24, 2014
Channel 19
Luck of the drive; Poetry for a husband
A promotion nets a free set of drives for one Indiana owner-operator; And from a self-proclaimed “truck driver’s wife” to her husband, a message “from the heart.”
June 23, 2014
Channel 19
‘Restart’ hits the mainstream; rhyming couplets for the road
As with Anne Ferro’s now-infamous blog post about the Congressional efforts relative to the restart, NPR’s report on hours makes it sound like an attack on the entire rule is at issue.
June 14, 2014
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