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Revamped ‘Overdrive’ website launches with new interactive features
Check out the new online look for emOverdrive/em at a href=”http://www.overdriveonline.com/”http://www.overdriveonline.com//a. In addition to the trucking news and print features you’ve found for years via the mag and its portion of the homesite img style=”MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 76px; CURSOR: hand” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410387880749188450″ border=”0″ alt=”” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SxWPHLEiRWI/AAAAAAAAAek/XezBC16evFk/s320/overdrive_logo.jpg” /at a href=”http://etrucker.com/”eTrucker.com/a, as […]
December 1, 2009
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Get a dose of trucking humor, oddities and coverage in the media.
December 1, 2009
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Trucker of the Month: A Centered Life
“You get a level of knowledge (from long hauls) that you can’t really get out of a textbook,” says Trucker of the Month Leonard Bower.
December 1, 2009
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Speakout: The Voice of the American Trucker
A trucker’s kindness to a young man years ago is remembered. Also, truckers weigh in on electronic bypass systems.
December 1, 2009
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Are you a ‘small-time pirate’ in the trucking landscape?
According to the left-leaning mag ema href=”http://inthesetimes.com/”In These Times/a/em, the potential for hours-of-service changes by the Obama administration’s FMCSA don’t matter to small-business truck owner-operators because they “compete like pirates, cutting their rates while hoping to snare some business. The lower their rates go, the longer they drive and more likely they are to turn […]
November 19, 2009
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How has the recent economic turndown affected you?
November 16, 2009
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Speakout: The Voice of the American Trucker
Truckers deserve thanks After working as a paralegal and manager stuck in an office for 20 years, I joined my owner-operator husband Vince Connell, as a passenger on his runs hauling Broadway show equipment for Clark Transfer. Here’s some of what I learned while riding with him. Chivalry is alive and well in truck stops. […]
November 1, 2009
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Lending a helping rig In Overdrive’s home base of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in September, truckers pitched in to help police foil a suicide attempt. As a man stood on the ledge of the I-20/59 bridge over McFarland Boulevard, police enlisted haulers with van trailers to build a platform under the bridge. A gallery of Tuscaloosa […]
November 1, 2009
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Trucker of the Month: On the go
When Greatwide Owner-Operator of the Year Artie Fry isn’t picking up an extra load, he’s getting a buddy’s truck read for Pride & Polish or fishing for channel catfish.
November 1, 2009
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Talking with TruckBytes software creator W. Joel Baker
a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SuiTYFD6qFI/AAAAAAAAAc8/5b0d0c3C_HE/s1600-h/DSC_0035.JPG”img style=”MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397726195288287314″ border=”0″ alt=”” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SuiTYFD6qFI/AAAAAAAAAc8/5b0d0c3C_HE/s320/DSC_0035.JPG” //aIn the run of reporting a feature about owner-operator IFTA accounting rules and procedures for a href=”http://overdrivedigital.com/”Overdrive’s November issue/a, I happened upon a wonderful example of all that’s good about the enterprising spirit of so many […]
October 28, 2009
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‘Changing channels…’ revisiting the citizens’ band
My “Exit Only” column in ema href=”http://truckersnews.com/”Truckers News/a /emOctober edition profiled ham radio operator/truck driver Abed Melek Selase, Delaware-based long-haul driver for Metropolitan Trucking, who’s been on something of a mission to rescue the CB from what many are calling its growing obsolescence, at best, in the age of cell phones and internet. At worst, […]
October 23, 2009
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Howard Salmon — owner-operator, musicmaker, and so much more…
a href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SsYic-UZO7I/AAAAAAAAAbc/EGO7ipcYaoU/s1600-h/howardwithtruck.JPG”img style=”MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 400px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 268px; CURSOR: hand” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388031885355596722″ border=”0″ alt=”” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ez6JTnOl_tQ/SsYic-UZO7I/AAAAAAAAAbc/EGO7ipcYaoU/s400/howardwithtruck.JPG” //aDid I mention emOverdrive /emTrucker of the Month for October? Howard Salmon (pictured), the part-time Hawaii resident and full-time reefer-hauling independent whose first country-music record a href=”http://channel19.blogspot.com/2009/08/trucks-made-of-gold-by-hawaiian-owner.html”I posted about/aa href=”http://channel19.blogspot.com/2009/08/trucks-made-of-gold-by-hawaiian-owner.html” here/a several weeks back, had a […]
October 2, 2009
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Speakout: The Voice of the American Trucker
Truck drivers weigh in on sloppiness, freight and health care costs.
October 1, 2009
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Channel 19
Brothers Nick and James Ventrillo have now released the first adventure novel in what they plan to be the “Rick & Bobo” series.
October 1, 2009
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Trucker of the Month: Sounds of Success
When he’s not home in Hawaii, independent Howard Salmon focuses on costs and services to produce a healthy income. He also shares his musical passion along the way.
October 1, 2009
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Small world: from Birmingham Pilot on back to childhood
In this month’s issue of ema href=”http://truckersnews.com/”Truckers News/a/em, my colleague Max Kvidera a href=”http://digitalmagazinetechnology.com/a/?KEY=truckersnews-09-09september#page=35″discusses costs in his monthly round-up on beginning owner-operator issues/topics of interest/a. Along the way toward the succinct but spot-on piece, he ran across 10-year trucking vet Robert Jacobs, who has fairly recently transitioned to leasing a rig after a long stint […]
September 9, 2009
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Gauges – September 2009
Diesel Prices National average: $2.63 Average U.S. diesel prices rose for the fourth consecutive we…
September 2, 2009
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Speakout – September 2009
‘No Apology’ made for setting standard In response to your column on how owner-operators can survive recessions (Pulse, June 2009…
September 2, 2009
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