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Dinosaurs and pretty girls

Wendy’s first day at GATS 2013 saw her taking around a dinosaur for pictures on the show floor and elsewhere for Hunter, a child in Southern Ohio with an illness that prevents him from traveling.

August 23, 2013

Wendy and Luke the Tyrannosaurus Rex

Owner-operator challenges, No. 5: High equipment costs

Rates aren’t exactly keeping up with the level of cost increase for equipment, a trend owner-operators have felt hard in the last several years.

August 10, 2012

Peterbilt dealer sales department

Rates and pay: Owner-operator challenge No. 4

Based on a survey and Overdrive social media channels, owner-operator challenge No. 4 is low freight rates. Here find partial solutions from owner-operators, fleet representatives and others.

August 8, 2012

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Uncompensated detention: Owner-operator challenge No. 3

Following our quiz of readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators, here’s a closer look at challenge No. 3 of the top five, Uncompensated and excessive detention time, with partial solutions from owner-operators, fleet representatives and others.

August 6, 2012

Hours of Service

Hours and EOBRs: Operator challenge No. 2

Using a survey and our social media channels, we quizzed readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators. Here’s a closer look at challenge No. 2 of the top five, Hours and EOBRs, with partial solutions from owner-operators, fleet representatives and others.

August 3, 2012

Fuel prices top owner-operator challenges

Using a survey and our social media channels, we quizzed readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators.

July 30, 2012

Fuel’s Gold

Owner-operators find big money and good schedules working the oil and gas services boom.

July 2, 2012

Kristin Stump says her typical day, if starting empty, begins with a run to a rail yard where sand is loaded into her pneumatic dry-bulk trailer. Driving small roads, typically, in West Virginia, she’s escorted to the well site, where sand is loaded into a storage bin. In a five-day work week, “I doubt if we do much more than 800 miles,” she says.

Beefing Up the Bond

Small brokers oppose proposed regs to increase the minimum bond to $100,000 and add other owner-operator protection.

June 1, 2012

Overdrive June 2012 cover

Half-century triumph

With 50 years of trucking in the side-view mirror, Larry Severson gets his due as Overdrive/TCA 2011 Owner-Operator of the Year.

May 3, 2012

LogBook

The Arrow Truck Sales 2012 Back on the Road winner is named, the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners is required, a woman’s rescuer is named Goodyear’s Highway Hero, cargo theft increases and other industry news items are featured.

May 1, 2012

Billy Basenburg’s prizes include a 2008 Mack Pinnacle high-rise sleeper.

Roadside Attractions

New life for old classics, Love’s connect app, the Aurora Borealis and more industry news and oddities are featured.

April 1, 2012

This 1974 Evel Knievel haul rig is only one of the classic truck restoration projects taken on by BPW Transport owner Brad Wike.

Cracking Evel Knievel’s forgotten safe

Host Robb Mariani got quite a surprise when he was filming an episode of “American Trucker.” See an exclusive video of what was found during restoration of a 1974 Mack FS700.

March 27, 2012

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