Equipment
Business
Regulations
Life
Custom Rigs
Gear
Tag: life
Overdrive Extra
Making the case for renewed trucking pride
After a tough year, owner-operator Clifford Petersen opens up about his renewed sense of trucking pride and his glass-half-full outlook for 2021.
December 9, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Truckers helping foster 12-year-old Robbie Welsh’ creative journey
In this edition Overdrive Radio, St. Louis mother Sarah Welsh details how the trucking community, particularly a variety of owner-operators among it, has helped foster her 12-year-old son Robbie’s passion for so many things trucking — and particularly: “meeting drivers to talk about their trucks,” Sarah says. A kindred spirit, as it were. More…
November 19, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Toward reinvigorating camaraderie among haulers: Introducing road chaplain, owner-op and Overdrive Extra blogger Clifford Petersen
For regular Overdrive readers, Petersen may need no introduction, as he’s written several blog posts in recent times in which he draws on his experience over a few decades now in and out of trucking. His last time away, though, gave him a new purpose in his approach to the industry and, as he notes, a desire to leave it better than he found it initially.
August 6, 2018
Business
If we’d all known then what we know now
The platitudes of life and trucking, filtered through the wisdom of the Blind Seer: “Your heart will grow weary. Home is so far away sometimes, it’s physically painful to think about it. But the same road that takes you away brings you back, and salvation is yours for the taking. God bless the truckers.”
February 25, 2018
Business
MATS2GATS lives again!
The MATS2GATS fitness challenge, an idea from James Crowley of Texomatic pictures, returns this year, challenging drivers to take the months in between MATS and GATS to improve their health and physical condition.
March 27, 2017
Business
Journey into the sun…
“To laugh out loud embodies what it means to be alive… Rest in peace, Jerry, may you ride that mower into the sun.”
October 23, 2013
Business
Believe in something
“It’s hard to keep an optimistic outlook on life when you’ve been on the road for 12 days in crappy weather.”
September 29, 2013
Channel 19
Rest in peace: Owner-operator Don Mulder of Nebraska
Owner-operator Donald Ray Mulder of Lincoln, Neb., passed away Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. In the 1980s he was head of the Nebraska chapter of the Independent Truckers Association.
September 10, 2013
Business
Going somewhere
Philosophy on the places you’ll go: “You don’t have to like it all, but you need to experience it, at least see it with your own eyes before passing judgment.”
June 26, 2013
Channel 19
Former Overdrive editor, actor Charles Napier passes on
Character actor and former Overdrive editor Charles Napier passed away at a hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 5. Napier’s perhaps best known for his role as one of the Good Old Boys in the Blues Brothers film as well as an intelligence officer in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Rambo: First Blood Part II. […]
October 7, 2011
Page 1 of 1