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Visual tour, impressions of the ATHS 2025 National Convention
Overdrive 2024 Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber offers this window on the ATHS National Convention, held last week, June 4-6, in Madison, Wisconsin, and featuring 850-plus trucks from all along the past century and more.
June 13, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Leave trucking better than you found it
It was a central message of a veritable sermon small fleet owner Jason Cowan delivered to MATS attendees. In this Overdrive Radio podcast, the thought-provoking talk tracks from the owner's history and early mentors to long-term relationship value.
April 8, 2024
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April 22, 2025
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1975 Brockway U360 returned to glory as a piece of trucking history
The truck was originally owned by Buck Hylton and participated in protests by coal miners in Washington, D.C., in 1975. Years later, after Hylton had long since sold the rig, his son found it, bought it, and restored the truck to its original glory.
January 25, 2024
Overdrive Extra
A tribute to Glenn 'Pillsbury' Hensley -- his well-preserved personal 1984 Pete 359
A. Hensley Livestock Dispatch and Consulting owner Andrea Hensley pays tribute to her legendary small fleet owner father in conversation with Long Haul Paul -- and gets a look with all of us at the spectacular restoration of the 359.
January 5, 2024
Life
Guitarist, founding member of iconic rock band with Overdrive ties dies
Tim Bachman, one of the founding members of the iconic Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, passed away April 28. The last part of the band's name came from an encounter with this publication at a Windsor stop, detailed in August 1975.
January 23, 2023
Custom Rigs
How trucking built America: The view from Scott Spear's 1969 Kenworth W900A
Scott Spear, who went out trucking first in 1969, helped literally haul the country into the 21st century. Now, his restored '69 Kenworth tells a story that reverberates through the very iron and steel undergirding American life.
February 6, 2023
Trucking History
Veterans Day rewind: Mail-call memories from Vietnam
Retired owner-operator Doug Fetterlyâs first job out of high school, in 1966, was with the Fourth Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam.
November 8, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Roadmansion photo gallery, background from founder Mike Parkhurst
Some of Overdriveâs oldest readers might recall the Roadmansion hotel in Los Angeles. Retired driver Bill Nickel, 74, was one of them when this story originally aired in 2014. Founder Mike Parkhurst also recalled two years of operation in the late 60s.
July 16, 2014
Business
Breaking Free: The history of the owner-operator in trucking
From fighting for freedom to haul in its early days to stressing smart business practices later, Overdrive has championed the owner-operatorâs concerns. Here, a history of owner-op business, from 1960-2011, with a special request for you.
September 1, 2011
Trucking History
60 years ago this month, Overdrive's first issue
It was 1961, truckers' numbers on the nation's roads were growing, and Overdrive founder and editor Mike Parkhurst was busy establishing an irreverent sense of humor with a serious tone as the Voice of the American Trucker ... download issue 1 here.
September 21, 2021
Channel 19
Looking back on 9/11's lasting trucking legacy
This retrospective on trucking history post-9/11 comes on the occasion of the 20th anniversary. While impacts of that event are impossible to exhaustively chronicle, Overdrive found shifts in security protocols, driver camaraderie, freight, and more.
September 13, 2021
Channel 19
Docmenting the 'Faces of the Road' with Long Haul Paul
Any retrospective on Overdrive's recent history would be incomplete without Paul Marhoefer's contributions to the magazine's multi-author "Overdrive Extra" blog with his "Faces of the Road" series of dynamic close-ups, delivering living history.
September 6, 2021
Overdrive Radio
âEastbound and Downâ celebrates Bandit's ânaughtyâ antics in classic movie
For this final "Songs of the Highway" podcast installment, arguably the best-known and most-loved trucking movie, âSmokey and the Bandit,â takes center stage with its signature song by Jerry Reed, âEastbound and Down.â
August 30, 2021
Channel 19
Eye candy, business advice: Overdrive's top 25 custom-rigs vids
Marking Overdrive's sixth decade in existence, here's a compilation in one handy spot of the most-watched equipment-forward videos we've done since our Pride & Polish vid collection in 2015.
August 23, 2021
Voices
A year after his passing, âMidnight Cowboyâ Bill Mack lives on in readersâ memories
Though he never met Mack, reader Ralph Hudson surmised the radio legend might have been "my best friend." Other memories of the 'Midnight Cowboy' here, including former Overdrive editor Max Heine's remembrance at the time of his passing one year ago.
August 11, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Songs of the Highway: Kay Adams' 'Little Pink Mack'
One of the first â if not 'the' very first â entertainers to use music to highlight the influx of female drivers into trucking was Kay Adams, with âLittle Pink Mack.â Released in 1966, the song celebrated a can-do toughness and spirit.
August 9, 2021
Custom Rigs
1982 Peterbilt 359, W. Tim Miller's grain-to-market hauler, an emblem of owner-op history
Tim Miller's previous 1969 359 was featured in a 1990s edition of Overdrive prompted by the appreciation of his then-teenage daughter for her father's dedication to the family business. Miller's an emblem of owner-operator history from the farms.
August 3, 2021
Channel 19
Did Joe Biden drive a truck or didn't he?
Whatever the case, he did take a ride with an independent trucker in 1973, evidenced in this lookback. Trucking could use a little more of what Biden seems to have had back at that time, an empathy for the realities of the independent trucking business.
September 10, 2012
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Kenworth celebrates history with 4th annual parade
Trucks spanning more than 100 years of Kenworth history participated in the Kenworth Truck Parade in Chillicothe, Ohio. Also: Semi-truck uphill drag races coming to Ohio; Relay Payments expands into truck service, repair and maintenance payments; Truck Parking Club rolling mobile access controls for gated lots.
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