The driver of this rig was fueling at a Laredo, Texas, truck stop when a fellow hauler saw his extra passengers and attempted to locate the rig’s driver. The trucker approached someone else who was fueling – owner-operator Henry Albert, Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year. Albert took this photo, later posting it on his blog, of a young man and woman (pictured) crouched on top of the U.S.-bound sleeper behind the high roof fairing. The truck’s driver called police. The stowaways realized the jig was up and climbed down, running off before police arrived.
Hope for the next generation
Jeff and Lynette Lynd of Ft. Collins, Colo., say the favorite magazine of their 6-year-old great niece, Zoe, is Overdrive. “She had to read it while she was eating her cereal and said, ‘I love my trucking magazine,’ Lynette says of Zoe’s interest in our 50th anniversary issue.
“We have People magazine, nature magazines, and she picks up Overdrive every time,” Lynette says.
Jeff, too, is no stranger to Overdrive. He’s trucked for two decades, today as company driver for JPS Trucking, before that as an owner-operator.
