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Veterans Day tributes on OverdriveRetro

OverdriveRetro, the magazine’s website devoted Overdrive’s 50 years’ coverage of truckers and trucking, features drivers such as Vietnam veteran Douglas Fetterly and others who served in the nation’s armed forces to commemorate Veterans Day, Nov. 11. In the photo above, Fetterly was reading Overdrive while stationed near the Cambodian border in 1967. Read about Fetterly here […]

November 9, 2010

Channel 19

Living with diabetes — behind the wheel of new book ‘A Life of Control’

November is national diabetes month, and as such today we bring you a story included in a new book about the difficulty of living with the disease, Published by Vanderbilt University Press. The excerpt — from A Life of Control: Stories of Living With Diabetes, by Alan L. Graber MD, Anne W. Brown RN and […]

November 8, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 to bring increase in driver pay?

The news over at the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday included a release from editors at J.J. Keller, emphasizing the reach of CSA 2010 beyond just for-hire truck carriers. “When the term ‘motor carrier’ is used,” says Transportation Management Editor Robert Rose, “many people immediately connect this to mean only ‘trucking companies.’ In actuality, [CSA 2010] […]

November 5, 2010

Channel 19

Tow-truckers echo long-haulers on Discovery’s ‘Wreck Chasers’

In many ways, tow-truckers are the absolute opposites of long-haulers. The tow-truckers of the Discovery Channel’s new “Wreck Chasers” series, on a three week trial run that began with two half-hour episodes Monday, are trying to beat their competitors to the sight of a wreck, of course. In Philadelphia, among whose tow-truckers the story is […]

November 4, 2010

Business

How do you feel about the elections?

Take a second to express your thoughts on Tuesday’s voting. What do the results mean for trucking? For your individual welfare?

November 3, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking up out of the water with Nashville fleets

While the story of the disastrous flooding my hometown experienced last May is still being written in many respects (the downtown TravelCenter of America location, as you’ll note from the picture, is still closed), there have been some recent bright moments. Vice President Tim Smith with TCW told me a couple weeks back his carrier’s […]

November 1, 2010

Channel 19

Trucking’s newest competitor: Rail? Forget it. . . .

A new competitor in the freight market is emerging. We’ve written about them from time to time, of course, from all the attention the railroads are getting on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves to those nifty cargo bikes eating into local delivery drivers’ payloads. Enter the pedestrian. The Super Power Pusher (pictured), say makers […]

October 26, 2010

Overdrive Extra

When the Midnight Cowboy changed his name

Renowned trucking DJ Bill Mack hadn’t planned on being a liaison between spouses when he went on the air decades ago, but he learned that when you open the phone line for truckers and their families, you never know what to expect.

October 25, 2010

Business

N.Y. reps push to reopen cross-border trucking

Nine New York congressional representatives have asked President Obama to resolve the trade dispute with Mexico after it imposed new tariffs on apple exports to Mexico. Democrat Reps. Michael Arcuri, Scott Murphy, Maurice Hinchey, Bill Owens, Dan Maffei, Paul Tonko, John Hall and Louise Slaughter, along with Republican Rep. Chris Lee made the request after […]

October 24, 2010

Business

Oct. 23-24: California hosts Pride & Polish

The final Pride & Polish event of 2010 will take place at the Truckin’ for Kids show in Irwindale, Calif., at the Toyota Speedway. The show will feature truck drags and a Wash and Shine event, along with the Custom Rigs’ Pride & Polish beauty show. Truckin’ for Kids celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. The […]

October 22, 2010

Channel 19

Novelist takes literary achievement to the truckstop

Beyond the spotlight of trucking industry news in July this year a novelist was hard at work promoting a book, her first, in which one of four main characters is a long-hauler turned local delivery driver struggling to maintain a connection to his son. What’s more is where the writer was promoting the novel. Making three […]

October 20, 2010

Channel 19

‘Workin’ Class’ — a new trucking tune from Leland Martin

It’s named after owner-operator Colin Stuart’s “big ol’ Peterbilt all decked out and tricked out with beautiful murals of horses on the sides of the trailer,” country crooner Leland Martin told my colleagues over at Custom Rigs magazine — “Workin’ Class” is the latest in Martin’s catalog, written after meeting owner-operator Stuart and posing for […]

October 18, 2010