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Custom Rigs
Jon and Miriam Brown and their Volvo home away from home
Landstar-leased Jon and Miriam Brown’s team operation and 2012 Volvo VNL300 converted by Showhauler Motorhome Conversions the first featured business in Volvo’s new “Welcome to my cab” vid series.
August 9, 2014
Catch more images of the unit via the gallery at the bottom of this post.
Channel 19
Running in reverse: Channel 19 year in review, part 2
In the second third of the year, the hours of service took front and center, along with a bevy of spectacular rigs seen on the show circuit and elsewhere. Take a tour back through the year via this review.
December 28, 2013
Dispatcher Michael Winton’s staged “scare” with his pickup and the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Peterbilt was chronicled in this May post.
Business
Close quarters and gastric distress
“Sometimes, making friends on the road is hard.”
October 13, 2013
Fartkontrol på Søftenvejen
Life
Hauling Tanzania: Meet Mike and Sherri Washington
Mike and Sherri Washington’s launch of a second career in trucking have found the pair on a mission hauling World Vision’s “Kisongo Trek” simulation of a Tanzanian Village.
August 16, 2013
“There had to be something more to it than running freight and chewing up the miles.” –Mike Washington on what he felt what his calling toward trucking
Business
Seasoned expediters: Tom and Tina Evans
Straight expediting truck have been Tom and Tina Evans’ bread and butter since starting their business in the year 2000 — today, they enjoy plenty of freedom to live life like they want to.
August 15, 2013
Tom and Tina Evans
Business
Second-career long-haul: Martin and Carolina Hill
Martin Hill enjoyed enhanced personal freedoms and income when he brought his wife, Carolina, into his newly-minted owner-operator business at CRST Van Expedited.
August 14, 2013
Team drivers Martin and Carolina Hill operate this Freightliner Columbia in a lease-purchase arrangement with CRST Van Expedited. Martin also has made news with a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety alleging trooper violations of 4th Amendment protections when waking sleeping co-drivers for nothing more than an ID check. Find Hill’s June 2013 letter to Overdrive about the case here.
Business
Accidental truckers: Jon and Miriam Brown
The Browns reap the rewards of professionalism in their Landstar-leased team operation.
August 13, 2013
Jon and Miriam Brown’s Volvo at Sebastian Inlet
Business
Equal partners: Chris Litzinger and Henry Kuperus
Brenny Transportation-leased owner-operators build on a solid friendship in coownership of a Volvo that helps support two growing households.
August 12, 2013
team lead
Business
Driving with a partner offers income, lifestyle opportunities
It’s no secret why team driving is attractive to the young and ambitious in trucking: income opportunity is high in the right operation. On the flip side, it’s also a refuge for second-career empty-nesters looking to enjoy life.
August 8, 2013
Jon and Miriam Brown’s 2012 Volvo VNL300
Custom Rigs
Professional at work: Jon and Miriam Brown’s freight hauler
The couple have been a team since they became “accidental truckers” in the year 2000 as a company team with CRST. Today, leased to Landstar Ranger, they’ve halved their yearly miles while boosting their take-home.
July 20, 2013
Landstar-leased owner-operators Jon and Miriam Brown
Voices
POLL: Have you ever driven team?
Team driving among husband-wife and other owner-operators is at least fairly common among Overdrive’s readership. How common? That’s what we want to know — help us find out by participating in this poll.
July 15, 2013
Voices
Team drivers: What’s the biggest attraction of team work?
Pay and lifestyle advantages are among various benefits to team operation some drivers have indicated — what’s the chief attraction as you see it?
June 27, 2013
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