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Overdrive Radio
Long Haul Paul's 'Long Haul of Fame' through trucking history
What emerges over the course of this Overdrive Radio re-air of the OTR podcast's episode 7 is a vivid take on recent trucking history through six individual stories, including that of host Long Haul Paul himself.
March 19, 2021
Channel 19
Meet the driver of Evel Knievel's former haul rig
This latest in Overdrive's 60th anniversary series takes a look at one intersection of the business magazine and U.S. popular culture with the 1973 story on one of the most famous people on the planet at the time, the daredevil and sometime truck driver.
January 25, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Fatal wreck remembered in first recorded trucking song
No. 1 in Overdrive Radio's new 'Songs of the Highway' podcast series looks at a 1928 song believed to be the first recorded trucking tune.
January 18, 2021
Custom Rigs
Thank you for the love
In which Wendy stumbles across a near-full collection of Overdrive magazines (from 1962 to 2016) at Howard Trucking in Fairborn, Ohio, for her last blog post at OverdriveOnline.com: âJust another weird and cosmic occurrence in our trucking adventures that was meant to be.â âŚ
February 28, 2018
Custom Rigs
Race-winning V12 KW still in action after four decades
As seen in the short film from Overdriveâs late-1970s N.J. diesel drag races, the winning rig alive and kicking four decades later -- and one race attendee's reflections on trucking enthusiasm through the decades.
May 24, 2016
Custom Rigs
Craig Ryanâs 1965 International CO4000: Lookback photos, more
Craig Ryan gives a personal account of his brief time trucking leased to Dart and otherwise hauling bees in the 70s and shares photos of his 1965 International CO4000 cabover.
January 27, 2015
Voices
âAmerica respected and loved truckers a lot more back thenâ
Six-million-mile man Gregg Blair, now retired, remembers a long career.
July 4, 2014
Channel 19
Bon voyage â a final word on leaving trucking
Thomas Dempseyâs farewell to trucking âtoward a more stable industry, one that young people will want to enter, and current drivers will choose to stay with, and be proud to do.â
November 16, 2013
Overdrive Extra
72 years later, those wheels sing a colorful song
âSinging Wheelsâ is a treasure of old trucks and truckers, dock and highway scenes, and more, packaged with the hype and patriotism of the early 1940s.
November 15, 2012
Business
Editors to talk owner-operator history, new efforts
Overdrive editors will discuss owner-operatorsâ history and evolution on online radioâs âTruth About Truckingâ show Dec. 1.
November 21, 2011
Channel 19
New book explores first cross-continent truck trip
Many of you will be familiar with the 1919 military truck convoy that traversed the United States in an effort to test the efficacy of cargo trucks on the roads, or lack thereof, of the day. A Young Dwight Eisenhower was part of the convoy, and his experience of it is oft-cited as having a [âŚ]
September 19, 2011
Trucking History
A receptionistâs memories: Overdrive in Hollywood
Bonnie Robinson remembers Overdriveâs staff and offices in the 1970s.
September 16, 2011
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