Tag: Dashcam Videos

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Matt Chase presents ‘A Trucking Nation 2’

Herein, from reader Matt Chase, what he describes asva “visual and dramatic look at what it takes to keep America moving.” Filmed and produced by Chase, with music and narration by James “Tex” Crowley.

September 11, 2019

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Colin Young presents another ‘Crazy Pass’ from Colorado’s Loveland Pass

As Young tells it: “Another typical day going over Loveland Pass. I was pulling a fully loaded gasoline tanker down the pass when the Jeep decided they needed around me. I guess this is what we get when we allow video games to replace driver education.”

May 23, 2019

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Colin Young presents ‘Because some of us are too good to wait’

Trucker Colin young was westbound on I-70 nearing entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel in Colorado. As he noted with the video entry in Ovedrive’s “Dashcam Central” repository for reader-submitted dash vids, the “road was closed for emergency repairs, but evidently it’s OK to pass on the shoulder if you’re behind an ambulance.”

April 23, 2019

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35-year trucker Joe Bartlette got a seatbelt ticket — until this video got it thrown out

There’s several ways to contest a ticket received at the roadside, chief and perhaps most effective among them just having video or other evidence that clearly refutes whatever the officer is claiming. … Cue the case of Decker Truck Line hauler Joe Bartlette of Grandville, Mich.

March 20, 2019

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How not to secure a mattress

Securing your load is critical all the time, but especially in high traffic areas and interstate operations. See how this four-wheeler secured its load.

February 21, 2019

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Don Christner presents ‘Open range trucking in Wyoming’

“I came over a rise and met a herd of sheep,” trucker and sometime Overdrive Extra blog contributors tells of this particular episode caught on video. “I brought the Kenworth to a stop and the Cowboy motioned me to keep moving. You see some interesting things truck driving!” …

February 18, 2019

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Colin Young has a message for Colorado State Patrol: Enforce increasing problem of unsafe passing on mountain roads

Dashcam Central video from Colin Young shows a precarious Loveland Pass two-lane pass made by a pickup’s driver with just a hair of space available between the pickup, oncoming traffic and the nose of Young’s rig. “Worst part is that the State Patrol does nothing to stop this increasing problem.”

February 12, 2019

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An eight-hour tour through Oregon in five minutes with Alan Sheain Jr.

It’s not all truck theft, near-misses with distracted four-wheelers and other catastrophic events in Overdrive’s Dashcam Central repository for reader-submitted dashcam vids. This one chronicles an eight-hour haul through big evergreen forests in Oregon in five minutes’ worth of time-lapse photography out the picture window of Alan Sheain Jr.’s windshield.

January 14, 2019

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Howard Salmon presents ‘Unsecured load takes flight’

As Salmon was starting to speed up after rolling through a work zone, unsecured cargo from a pickup in front of him took flight. Check it out on Overdrive.

September 14, 2018

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James Hewett presents ‘Near-miss in Phoenix’

Think (and look) twice before turning on red after watching trucker James Hewett's nearly disastrous encounter with a fellow truck driver in Arizona.

May 21, 2018

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Owner-operator and Highway Hero finalist Brian Bucenell ends a police chase

The trailer and tires got a scratch, the custom power unit was untouched, and the officers Bucenell helped obliged him with a clean white-glove Level 1 inspection just after. As he told Movin’ Out’s Steve Pollock, “The DOT officer did me a favor, U.S. Bulk gives us a $200 bonus for each clean Level 1 inspection.”

April 3, 2018

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Colin Young presents ‘Basalt drive’ hall of shame

This collection of video clips from the dashcam of trucker Colin Young was assembled from several during “a load from Denver to Basalt, Colo., on the Friday before Father’s Day” this year, Young says, via Loveland Pass. “After 20-plus years of driving it still surprises me how many people continue to take the risks they take around big trucks.”

November 8, 2017