Tag: Paul Marhoefer

Channel 19

Docmenting the 'Faces of the Road' with Long Haul Paul

Any retrospective on Overdrive's recent history would be incomplete without Paul Marhoefer's contributions to the magazine's multi-author "Overdrive Extra" blog with his "Faces of the Road" series of dynamic close-ups, delivering living history.

September 6, 2021

Overdrive Radio

Over the Road reality creeps toward 'automated future'?

In the finale of Overdrive Radio's re-air of the OTR podcast, a long look with Long Haul Paul Marhoefer at both skeptics and proselytizers of trucking automation, with plenty emphasis on where truckers stand in today's on-highway reality.

April 2, 2021

Overdrive Radio

Regulated rates, wildcatting, deregulation: A brief history of U.S. trucking

A special tour through the rise of the owner-operator in exempt agricultural markets from the 1930s, to wildcatting later, deregulation later still -- and this cabover monument to one owner's heritage.

January 22, 2021

Overdrive Radio

Trucking with authority and other reasons ‘Why we drive’ — OTR rewind No. 2

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, an update on the last couple of years' push toward one featured trucker's new authority as an owner-operator, and much more.

January 7, 2021

Overdrive Radio

Back to the ‘Biggest Tailgate in Trucking’ — and Germann Soeth’s 1976 KW K100

The coproduction of Overdrive and Radiotopia brought the reality of working haulers to all audiences. Plus: Germann Soeth's restored 1976 Kenworth K100.

December 23, 2020

Overdrive Radio

OTR soundtrack custom-built for 2020: Paul Marhoefer’s ‘Songs from a truck’

The trucker-songwriter's record explores the emotion of personal history, striking a chord with anyone managing the risks of the road with a family back home.

December 11, 2020

Overdrive Radio

Music, tales for the big road: Trucker-songwriters John Malayter and Long Haul Paul, and bluegrass pro Tina Adair

Listen to interviews with trucker-songwriter John Malayter and bluegrass pro Tina Adair, as well as a pandemic tale from Long Haul Paul on Overdrive Radio.

November 27, 2020

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

Overdrive Radio

Over the Road episode 8: The Road Ahead

Over the Road hauls to Dallas and the Great American Trucking Show to probe the question on many truckers' minds: Will automation render them obsolete?

May 28, 2020

Channel 19

‘Truckers & Troubadours’, and drive-in-movie night at Riteload headquarters

This new song from folk-country leading light Mary Gauthier is a cowrite with Jim Darden and ... none other than Overdrive's own Paul Marhoefer.

May 6, 2020

Overdrive Radio

‘Over the road’ episode 4: Three stops in Kentucky

In the quest for the best "nanner nanner nanner pudding" in Kentucky, Long Haul Paul makes three stops in his journey. Learn more and listen here on Overdrive.

April 2, 2020