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Overdrive Extra
Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told âI couldnât do it, and I was gonna prove âem wrongâ
Hooks and her 2014 389: âI learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. Thereâs people out there in Texas âŚ, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what Iâve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.â
May 13, 2019
Overdrive Extra
A busy independentâs plan to transition his business (and dodge ELDs in the process)
A run with John Hodges in his 1998 Freightliner Classic, part of his small fleet. As independent, Hodges juggles roles as driver, owner, cattle farmer and pastor in his local church, taking it all in stride: âTo whom much is given âŚâ
August 9, 2017
Channel 19
Livestock haulersâ efforts to secure hours changes in light of ELD mandate, stalled
âWeâre 100 percent dependent on road transportation of our cattle. Take that away from us and weâre back to cattle drives.â âTim OâByrne of the American Cattle Transporters Advisory Group, a coalition hoping to liberalize split-berth/14-hour regs for livestock haulers in light of ELD mandate.
February 17, 2017
Business
When Bessieâs butt attacks
âI have it on good authority that by the year 2020, all cow butts will be equipped with DPF systems.â ⌠On the upside, noted a glass-half-full type of observer: âWhen the DPF catches fire, you got steaks!â
September 21, 2016
Business
Worry warts need not apply
On the long road, âIâm only horrified about half of the time. The rest of the time is an adventure I look forward to and appreciate, unless it involves signs with pictures of scorpions on them posted inside the public restrooms. Thanks, Arizona.â
January 23, 2015
Custom Rigs
Check out this workhorse: Don Cooperâs 379
A neat internal-breather treatment on the Cooper Farms 1998 Peterbilt 379 â photos and more of the McAlpin, Fla.-based rig of owner-operator Don Cooper.
January 16, 2014
Custom Rigs
Mystery Machine: The Peterbilt â369â of Ronald Millsaps
Millsapsâ 2002 Peterbilt 379âs hood and other elements of the front end have been modified to more closely resemble those on a class 1980s Peterbilt 359.
July 9, 2013
Voices
Get your load on! (4th edition)
Bee hives, portable grain bins on lowboy doubles, trackhoes in a dry van, and more photos of reader loads in the latest in this series. Find out how to send in your own here.
June 19, 2013
Business
Loaded from home â to home
Wendy and George ponder home and Sunday school on a run up I-75 from near where Wendy was raised in Georgia to deliver in Ohio, their current home.
February 20, 2013
Business
Middle of Nowhere, Ariz., with cattle, aliensâŚ
Wendy and George find themselves on a cow path in the middle of the night in Arizona: âWhen George Parker is driving and he says, âThis isnât good,â it means youâre potentially about to experience a fiery death crash.ââŚ
November 16, 2012
Channel 19
$50,000 reward for some missing âŚ
Theyâve been gone a few years â a grand total of 175 of them, mostly between the ages 3 and 7 years old now, according to a story published yesterday at the website of AgWeek. They were the property of cattleman James Larsen, whose father, incidentally, was a trucker. ATTENTION LIVESTOCK HAULERS: in two ads [âŚ]
November 29, 2011
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