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Voices: Page 115

Voices
Hot button: Call a truce with marijuana?
More than 60 percent of Overdrive readers favored some form of marijuana-use legalization or decriminalization, with a majority reflecting three current state ballot initiatives beyond medical use.
October 16, 2012
Legalize it!
Voices
Hot buttons: How should lawmakers deal with the ‘fiscal cliff?’
October 11, 2012
Voices
Fall views: Out the front door in Central Penn.
Overdrive reader James Morton shares fall foliage pictures — find out how you can share your own in this story.
October 10, 2012
James Morton street in fall
Voices
Owner shout-outs: Readers offer more green grass
Following coverage of driver appreciators in the October 2012 issue, readers offered further shout-outs to respected fleet owners around the trucking world.
October 4, 2012
Marc Allison’s Tim Ables Trucking frack sand hauler
Voices
Poll: What is the most attractive aspect of expedited trucking?
October 3, 2012
Voices
‘A good step backward’
Readers react largely positively to Overdrive’s return to the photographic practice of pairing beautiful women with beautiful trucks.
September 28, 2012
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Channel 19
Readers: GPS regs won’t fill a void of common sense
Politicians making ridiculous comparisons notwithstanding, in the late call for regulation of GPS units, many readers noted there could be no technological excuse for a lack of driver common sense.
September 27, 2012
Curiosity Rover
Voices
Securement 201: How best to chain to a stake pocket
What is the best way to use a stake pocket as a chain anchor point? Reader J.D. Bronson, among others, offers his preferred method.
September 25, 2012
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Reader offers top 10 regulatory wish list
TruckerPetition.org founder offers her best recommendations to DOT for prioritizing regulatory review.
September 19, 2012
Regulatory wish list
Voices
Long-haul pride lives in new generation
Around the internet, a new generation of drivers and owner-operators is reaching out to those who’ve come before.
September 17, 2012
Voices
Reader: ‘We built our business one day at a time’
Overdrive reader Steve Bixler, in a team operation hauling frack sand with his wife, Doris, offers kudos on Max Heine’s “Who built your business?” column.
September 14, 2012
Steve and Doris Bixler and their 1989 Freightliner COE
Voices
Poll: Have you seen a pay increase lately?
September 12, 2012
Voices
Hot Button: Truckers’ choice for President
Sixty-six percent of Overdrive readers participating in our 2012 presidential election poll favored Mitt Romney as their candidate of choice.
September 12, 2012
Election 2012 poll
Voices
Owner-Operator of the Month: Bob Stewart
After a decade of odd jobs with the state of Washington, Bob Stewart has thrived on the open road.
September 12, 2012
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Voices
Hot buttons: Legalize marijuana?
September 10, 2012
Voices
Owners, drivers: Stand up and be counted
“I know that if our owners and drivers stopped long enough to vote on the issues their voice would be heard.” –Michael McRae, President of M&M Contractors and Specialized Carriers
September 6, 2012
Truck protest convoy in New York, 2008
Voices
Reader: Government deserves some thanks
“The public needs trucks and truckers, and truckers need what the public pays for. The public will is expressed through government, not talk radio.” –Jim Mesthene of Waltham, Mass.
September 4, 2012
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Government and jobs: Guiding hand? Or hands off?
Readers weigh in on our September issue hot-button question: What role should the federal government have in job creation?
September 1, 2012
Job Creation Poll, September 2012
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