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Overdrive Radio
What can owner-operators expect from a Biden administration?
This week's edition of Overdrive Radio features OOIDA's president helping forecast what a Biden administration may mean for independent truckers. Listen here.
November 20, 2020
Voices
POLL: Who’s got your vote in the Presidential election?
Whether the incumbent Republican, challenging Democrat or other independent/third-party or write-in -- who's likely to get your vote in the election?
October 19, 2020
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POLL: What’s your view of increasing vote-by-mail/other early-vote options for the 2020 election?
With the President crying out against expanding vote-by-mail options and some states having long since proven at least its its efficacy/feasibility in past elections, what’s your view of expansion of mail-in-voting efforts as well as potentially expanded early-vote options? Weigh in here.
August 18, 2020
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Hot button: Should the ‘Mueller report’ on election interference/obstruction of justice be released?
With Attorney General William Barr’s summary of special counsel/former FBI head Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference out — clearing the President’s campaign of any conspiracy in the foreign effort — do you feel the full report should be released?
March 27, 2019
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Truckers say no to partisan gerrymandering of electoral districts
A dislike of partisan gerrymandering of districts cuts across partisan divisions. 87% of Overdrive readers either noted simply that it should not be legal or that independent state commissions would be appropriate arbiters of district boundaries with a goal of taking politics out of the process.
February 11, 2019
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Political gerrymandering: Should it be legal for parties to redraw districts to favor their candidates?
It’s a truism in electoral politics in the U.S. — whichever party controls state government when electoral districts are redrawn (generally every 10 years) holds the advantage for the next 10. Should outright political gerrymandering of districts be legal? Or is it all more complicated than that?…. Weigh in here.
November 27, 2018
Business
Denham, top recipient of trucking campaign dollars and ATA ally, loses re-election bid
Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), the top beneficiary of trucking industry political campaign contributions for the 2018 midterms, has lost his seat in the U.S. House. Denham had been a strong ally of ATA’s in the fight against California’s meal and rest break requirements.
November 14, 2018
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Truckers split over challengers and incumbents in midterm races
In 21 percent of readers’ districts, the House race featured no incumbent at all, while in those that did, just a single percentage point separated respondents who reported intentions to vote for the incumbent or the challenger, suggesting a divide about the current direction of government in general terms.
November 5, 2018
Business
OOIDA’s 2018 political contributions favor ELD opponent Babin, potential House transpo leader Graves
The OOIDA has contributed over $150K to political campaigns so far in 2018. Learn more about the top recipients of the OOIDA's contributions on Overdrive.
August 9, 2018
Business
Two truckers set sights on governors’ races
Bryan Messenger, a 28-year-old company driver, is running for governor of Kentucky as a Republican, while Jason Childs, 46, seeks to be on the ballot as a Democrat for the governorship of Alabama.
August 9, 2017
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Good move, bad timing: Majority of readers approve of FBI director’s firing
In the immediate wake of President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey last week, most readers weighed in on the side of it being the right decision, though the president didn’t go without criticism himself.
May 16, 2017
Business
Insurgent candidate Fred Zuckerman argues for effective organizing in bid for Teamsters presidency
Ballots in the Teamsters’ leadership election were mailed out October 6. Central to Zuckerman’s candidacy is Teamsters expansion and something of a retrenchment in freight — bolstering “organizing in our core industry, in the freight industry.”
October 7, 2016
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