Tag: Tony Justice

Overdrive Radio

Tony Justice returns to 'Overdrive's Music to Truck By'

The trucker-songwriter will be in studio with Overdrive's Music to Truck By radio host 'Big Al' Weekley to pick up where they left off in April talking Justice's long-awaited "18 Gears to Life" record, out now.

April 15, 2021

Life

New Tony Justice record available for pre-order

Justice's '18 Gears to Life' is his first record in almost four years. Also: Night haulers can catch a replay of last Friday's "Overdrive's Music to Truck By" online radio program starting at 1 a.m. Central Wednesday morning.

March 9, 2021

Trucker Talent Search

Flatbedder John Malayter wins Trucker Talent Search with his original ‘Take Me Back to Tennessee’

Flatbed driver John Malayter is this year's Overdrive-Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search winner with his song "Take Me Back to Tennessee." Details here.

August 28, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Trucker Talent Search preview — the performers, their hauling histories and songs

This Friday Freddy French, Paul Cullers and John Malayter will give a final performance for this year's Trucker Talent Search. Hear their entry songs here.

August 26, 2020

Trucker Talent Search

Last call for submissions for Overdrive’s annual Trucker Talent Search contest

The deadline to enter the annual singing contest is today, April 1. This year’s prize is a free professional recording session in Nashville.

April 1, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Listen: The Channel One-Nine Special from ‘Over the Road’ — Music

In this Channel One-Nine Special from the Over the Road podcast, a personal playlist with trucking-song connoisseur and singer-songwriter Tony Justice.

March 26, 2020

Overdrive Extra

Outrage and sadness with WSM All Nighter’s cancellation

A management shakeup at the “Air Castle of the South,” Nashville’s WSM 650 AM, has left more than one show scuttled in its wake, including a favorite of truckers across the nation. Gone is the WSM All Nighter With Marcia Campbell. “It feels like a death …. to this gearjammer.”

February 12, 2020

Business

News roundup, Dec. 13: Group protests apparent training rule delay; FDA warns product marketers, public on CBD safety, legality

The TruckerNation organization has told FMCSA it no longer wants to be involved with the “Our Roads, Our Safety” campaign. The move is intended to express disapproval of the agency’s reported intent to delay the Entry Level Driver Training rule by as much as two years’ time. FDA issues warning letters to CBD product marketers on safety of products.

December 13, 2019

Business

Tony Justice, Trucker Talent Search alumni join Christmas fundraising group for trucking families

Trucker and singer-songwriter Tony Justice and seven TTS alumni will work with the Truckers Christmas Group to help raise awareness and funds for the 2019 campaign – TCGO’s 12th annual fundraising effort. The former TTS contestants participating are Keith Sampson, Mandi Jo Pinheiro, Taylor Barker, Paul Marhoefer, Bill Weaver, Jason Henley, and Ken Freeman.

November 12, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Tony Justice: No ‘crystal ball’ for hours proposal’s post-Martinez future; Jason Lee Wilson live in a cave

Past Overdrive talent search winner Jason Lee Wilson live from a cave, Tony Justice from a speedway, and: Justice says, well, unlike so many out there, he doesn’t seem to be able to get his crystal ball powered up when it comes to predicting the future of the proposed hours changes post-Martinez.

October 18, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Trucker Talent Search: Hear the performances; And: More on hours amid comment period

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, run through talent-search music, with a warm-up by Long Haul Paul Marhoefer and plenty emcee’ing by trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, who’s played a major role through the event’s six years in making it an ongoing anchor among the community of musicians who also happen to haul freight on the open road…

August 30, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Another record year for truckers’ GATS parking benefit auction for St. Christopher

Despite the recent freight slowdown in some parts of the trucking sector, owner-operators and company drivers alike dug in deep to pull out yet another record-breaking auction for the “Truckers Fund.” Between an auction, a charity dunk tank ($20 for three throws) and matching funds, total donations for the event came to nearly $21K.

August 29, 2019