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Real American Trucker presents ‘A 360+’ in snow on U.S. 30 in Wyo.

“Following a snowplow on a foggy, ice-covered road” near Kemmerer, Wyo., as you’ll see in the vid, an SUV coming up from behind the truck was unable to stop and does a full 360, and then some, right in front of the rig.

January 17, 2017

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Howard Salmon presents ‘Oops, wrong way’

Trucker captures pickup driver entering an on-ramp headed, well, the wrong way.

January 10, 2017

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Lester Slow presents ‘Trucking with crazy’

This reader’s son helped edit this collection of clips captured at various locations around the United States. What do they have in common? Drivers behaving badly, Slow says.

January 3, 2017

Business

How to fight traffic tickets, whether with or without legal help

There is more than one way to skin the cat when it comes to fighting tickets. While more than four in 10 Overdrive readers say they have seen success contesting a ticket without employing a lawyer to help, interviews reveal a different pattern.

December 27, 2016

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Philip Kuffner presents a trio of vids to file under ‘on-highway follies’

Always “an adventure” out on the road, isn’t it? Overdrive reader Philip Kuffner offered up these three vids from his dashcam as plenty evidence.

December 20, 2016

Channel 19

Thursday round-up: Supply chain mandating ELDs?, Wal-Mart moving toward cab cameras, nolo contendere for operator

Reporting out of Arkansas: Wal-Mart’s private fleet begins to test in-cab camera systems. Howard Salmon pleas out from under a following-too-close citation. And: one regular reader calls foul on the notion that brokers/shippers will require ELDs in contracts for exempt truckers post-mandate.

December 15, 2016

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‘Close call’ with Colin Young and his dashcam outside metro Denver

SB on I-25, “headed into the Denver Metro area,” after another tractor-trailer passed Young, an impatient motorist “going too fast nearly wrecked while making an unsafe lane change.”

December 13, 2016

Business

SmartDrive’s ‘Extended Recording’ feature enhanced; other upgrades, video mandate discussed

In a press briefing with reporters, coming just two weeks after NTSB’s first call for a mandate for video recorder use, SmartDrive reps noted any mandate would be long in coming but that a belief in the power of video in highway safety “is certainly our position.”

November 30, 2016

Business

‘WB 70 shoulder: An expressway of one’s own’ — from the dashcam of Colin Young

Colin Young was westbound on I-70 “coming down Floyd Hill in Colorado.” Traffic was creeping along, and a pickup-truck driver decided to take matters into his own hands, safety be … well, you know.

October 27, 2016

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Dashcam to the rescue: Trucker assists law enforcement twice — in two days — with video evidence

Two days, two near-fatalities with plenty of motorist impatience at fault caught on the dashcam of independent owner-operator Howard Salmon. In both incidents, Salmon provided a principle piece of evidence to local law enforcement in Sarasota and Palmetto, Fla.

October 25, 2016

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Thomas Ivie presents ‘Flying Tire Incident’

“I was driving in Kansas City, Mo., when the wheel and tire of a car ahead of me came off. It rolled into the left lanes and out of my sight. … All of a sudden, the tire was in the air, heading straight for me. …”

October 17, 2016

Channel 19

Mere inches of a near miss: Quick evasive action saves truck from sure disaster

This dashcam vid comes from the Connecticut-based 250-truck Bozzuto’s fleet. Says Tom Halpin, transportation safety manager at Bozzuto’s: “In the words of the driver,” one of Bozzuto’s most senior, “‘I don’t know if [the motorist] fell asleep or was distracted.’ It was mere inches in a near miss.”

October 12, 2016