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A story of ‘Singing Wheels’ that served America

The 1941 “Singing Wheels” film advertisement for the trucking industry showcases the oldtime trucks at their best, posted on OverdriveRetro.

January 7, 2011

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Looking forward, looking back

As the new year rolls in, it’s also a good time to reflect. And if you’ve following the five-decade retrospective on Overdrive’s 50th anniversary website, you know there’s plenty to see.

December 30, 2010

Trucking History

A coffee-table book of Freightliners

Ron Adams’ book, “White-Freightliner Trucks of the 1960s,” features more than 100 photos, many similar to the rigs in 1960s Overdrive issues.

December 29, 2010

Trucking History

Can’t take the trucking out of the girl

New Jersey native Cindy Cadiente appreciates her trucking heritage as the daughter of a former Independent Truckers Association president.

December 9, 2010

Trucking History

TV drama of a gypsy trucker still magic for fans

In 1975, Overdrive covered the filming of the TV series, “Movin’ On,” starring Claude Akins as trucker Sonny Pruitt.

December 3, 2010

Trucking History

Trucking advocate enjoyed Overdrive award

Bruce Wieser won a prize for the Native American-inspired message on his rig and now advocates for trucker heroes.

November 23, 2010

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Veterans Day tributes on OverdriveRetro

OverdriveRetro, the magazine’s website devoted Overdrive’s 50 years’ coverage of truckers and trucking, features drivers such as Vietnam veteran Douglas Fetterly and others who served in the nation’s armed forces to commemorate Veterans Day, Nov. 11. In the photo above, Fetterly was reading Overdrive while stationed near the Cambodian border in 1967. Read about Fetterly here […]

November 9, 2010

Trucking History

Veterans Day rewind: Mail-call memories from Vietnam

Retired owner-operator Doug Fetterly’s first job out of high school, in 1966, was with the Fourth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

November 8, 2010

Trucking History

Still trekking to shoot stills of the big rigs

Amateur truck photographer Russ MacNeil has taken photos of big rigs since he was a teen growing up near Westfield, Mass. As a child, he was mesmerized as trucks roared by on walks with his aunt near Route 20. By the time he was 27, a black Mack Model B he shot near Ft. Pierce, […]

November 3, 2010

Trucking History

An old star shines coast-to-coast

Owner-operator Mike Long, a native of Marion, Ind., restored a 1979 IH Transtar 4070B six years ago. The Landstar Ranger contractor still drives it.

October 26, 2010

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Website commemorates Overdrive’s 50th

The new website, OverdriveRetro, offers retrospects on news, features and photos from 50 years of trucking history covered by Overdrive magazine for its 50th anniversary of its September 1961 launch. With special attention to the magazine’s back issues and reader interaction, the website has five photo galleries, a section for readers to submit memories and anecdotes about trucking, a […]

October 26, 2010

Overdrive Extra

When the Midnight Cowboy changed his name

Renowned trucking DJ Bill Mack hadn’t planned on being a liaison between spouses when he went on the air decades ago, but he learned that when you open the phone line for truckers and their families, you never know what to expect.

October 25, 2010