Tag: Trucker of the Year

Business
Meet Overdrive’s Owner-Operator of the Year, enter next year’s contest this week at GATS
Submissions for next year’s Owner-Operator of the Year and Company Driver of the Year contests officially begin Sept. 19, but operators who stop by the TCA booth and express interest in applying can do so at the show. 2015’s top truckers won $25,000.
August 24, 2016
Overdrive’s 2015 Owner-Operator of the Year, Mark Tricco, will be greeting fellow truck operators at this year’s Great American Trucking Show.
Business
Former Trucker of the Year on health, success strategies
In this vid, owner-operator and former Trucker of the Year Mike Curle stresses his focus on long-term health and the short-term strategies he’s adopted toward keeping his weight and blood pressure down, and sense of well-being high.
November 20, 2013
Mike Curle
Channel 19
Interviewing Dan Heister, Overdrive’s Trucker of the Year
In this month’s issue of Overdrive, I wrote about the recession-surviving prowess of Boyd Bros.-leased owner-operator Dan Heister (pictured), whose mastery of his short-medium haul niche in Boyd’s self-dispatch/percentage-pay Independent Express program brought him through the really bad times in 2008 to ever-greater success this year. In addition to recently purchasing what amounts to a […]
February 16, 2011
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Overdrive Extra
Going for the gold in 2011
We began celebrating Overdrive’s 50th year of publishing in October, when that milestone year began. Now, starting the calendar year of that golden anniversary, we’re introducing some improvements in the magazine.
January 5, 2011
Business
Pulse
Let us know what changes you like and dislike, and what we can do to improve.
January 4, 2011
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Business
Friday: Deadline for trucker award nomination
The nomination deadline has been extended to Oct. 29 for the 2011 Overdrive TCA Owner-Operator of the Year.
October 26, 2010
Mike Crawford, Overdrive's 2010 Trucker of the Year
Channel 19
Interviewing Overdrive 2010 Trucker of the Year Mike Crawford
Always a pleasure, it is, to get a call from Mike “Mustang” Crawford (pictured), the Prime-leased owner-operator who is Overdrive’s 2010 Trucker of the Year (follow that link for my story about him in our February edition). I got one such call just last week. Crawford told me about his truck’s recent inadvertent inclusion in […]
February 8, 2010
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