Overdrive's news and analysis of last year’s hours of service revision is competing for the Best News Coverage award.
The program, run by the the Software & Information Industry Association, is the industry’s most prominent B2B journalism competition. A panel of over 80 judges reviewed the 235 finalists in three stages to select winners in 24 categories. Winners will be announced June 9.
Overdrive is competing in these categories:
Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills, a five-time winner in this category since 2015, was nominated for his large output of writing, podcast, video and webcast work.
The Channel 19 blog, written by Dills, offers informal presentations of trucker profiles, industry issues and other features about trucking.
Overdrive’s reporting of last year’s hours of service revision was written by Dills and James Jaillet, then executive editor for trucking at Overdrive’s publisher Randall-Reilly. Among the stories entered was “New rule, new perspectives.”
"Cash-flow Crisis," written by Overdrive Editorial Director Max Heine and Dills, ran in three Overdrive print editions. The series explored owner-operators’ cash management challenges, some long-standing, others exacerbated in the early months of the pandemic.
