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Trucker Talent Search

See Trucker Talent Search’s Hoss Kirgan sing original ‘Put the Hammer Down’

Overdrive-Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search finalist Eric “Hoss” Kirgan sings his original song 'Put the Hammer Down'. Watch the video here on Overdrive.

June 11, 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

Countdown through a parking shortage, tech surge, truck boot … 2019’s Top 10 podcast episodes

Listen: A year-in-review on the Overdrive Radio podcast this week, covering a boatload of ground all told: From trucking history to shutdowns and slow rolls, parking and booting, the ELD mandate and hours of service, small fleet business and the limits to quick growth, working the spot market and so much more …

December 27, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Listen: Talent Search winner Taylor Barker’s new musical bonds; Brumbach Stephens hauls one giant tree

Listen: Owner-operator and Trucker Talent Search winner on trucking, music and life in general in-studio from Nashville, likewise former small fleet owner now with Wilbanks Trucking, Brumbach Stephens, on the haul of a lifetime with this year’s Capitol Christmas tree.

November 29, 2019

Channel 19

‘It’s Saturday night on Music Row’: Owner-operator Taylor Barker’s Nashville recording session

This Saturday, Heniff Transportation-leased owner-operator Taylor Barker laid the groundwork for what he’s hopeful will be initially an EP and later a full-length record in a session at Jay’s Place recording studio in Nashville, the end result of his 2019 Trucker Talent Search winning performance.

November 25, 2019

Trucker Talent Search

Trucker Talent Search winner Taylor Barker meshes stage success with growing industry outreach

With one truck, nine guitars and a growing set of industry projects, 2019 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search winner Taylor Barker is finding his place with his music peers and others in trucking.

November 13, 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

Trucker Talent Search

Three finalists to square off in live finale for Overdrive’s Trucker Talent Search

The sixth annual Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search received more than 50 entries from talented truckers who love to sing. Those entries have been narrowed to three finalists. See who will be competing in the live finale here…

July 31, 2019

Life

American Idol, Grammy winner Taylor Hicks to join Red Eye Radio at GATS

In addition to Hicks’ meet and greet appearance, RER will welcome Olivia Ooms, Jayne Denham, Tony Justice and Bill Weaver, along with Overdrive­-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search finalists Jason Henley, Ken Freeman and Taylor Barker.

July 25, 2019

Business

Sessions on business best practices, ELDs, more set for GATS

A number of educational sessions will be held during the Great American Trucking Show, including Overdrive’s Partners in Business sessions, FMCSA Hot Topics sessions and more.

July 9, 2019

Overdrive Radio

40 years of trucking — and surviving — with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)

Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and she’s been on the road since. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear her reflections on her 40-year career, many of those spent as a single-truck owner-operator, as well as her recent involvement in FMCSA’s Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.

June 28, 2019

Channel 19

2018 talent-search winner Mandi Jo Pinheiro’s new CD/digital EP

Owner-operator Mandi Jo Pinheiro, in a team with her husband, William, distinguishes herself yet again with a four-song CD EP and three-song digital version that’s out and available as of this past weekend.

June 17, 2019