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The twist in year-end tax planning

If Congress doesn’t extend the tax cuts, in effect raising taxes for 2011, it will make more sense to defer expenses into 2011 and accelerate income into 2010.

November 9, 2010

Business

Truck driving champion wins Cascadia

Conway-Freight driver and National Truck Driving Champion Carl Krites has won a 2010 Freightliner Cascadia.

November 9, 2010

Home

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

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: SLOW YOUR DECELERATION. Fuel is converted

PIB TIP: SLOW YOUR DECELERATION. Fuel is converted to wasted energy with hard and frequent braking, in which case much of the fuel you need to get up to speed again is lost. Safety experts recommend watching ahead a distance of 12 seconds to prevent having to react at the last second. You are less […]

November 9, 2010

Reader Rigs

Rick and Toni Skyberg of Poteau, Okla., run this 1

Rick and Toni Skyberg of Poteau, Okla., run this 1993 Peterbilt 379 from Oklahoma to Arizona weekly hauling flagstone for landscaping applications. Rick Skyberg says the truck, which is powered by a 480-hp Detroit Diesel and a 10-speed transmission, has custom paint and custom-built fiberglass. “She’s a work in progress,” he says. “But she’s a […]

November 9, 2010

Business

National diesel price surges 4.9 cents

The national average price of $3.111 is the highest price in six months. The week of May 10, the price was $3.127.

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

Business

Ferro expects hours rule release in November

Anne Ferro of the Federal Motor Carrier Administration expects the White House to release the new rule by the end of this month.

November 8, 2010

Business

Federal agency requires recorders for Colorado fleet

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered JBS Carriers to put EOBRs on its more than 700 trucks by March.

November 8, 2010

Business

Prime honors 3-million-mile drivers

Prime Inc. truckers Herman Knight and Steve Rowan have won safety awards for driving 3 million miles safely. The honor requires a driving record free of preventable accidents or incidents, the Springfield, Mo.-based carrier said in a written statement. Knight and Rowan were presented their awards at the 10-year celebration dinner for Prime employees. Both drivers […]

November 5, 2010

Business

I-80 work to begin in Nebraska

Construction work is scheduled to begin Nov. 8 on the 70th Street Bridge over I-80, north of Lincoln.

November 5, 2010

Business

Virginia to open truck-only rest area

The program, starting with an I-66 location, will use undeveloped properties owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation.

November 5, 2010