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Down to the wire: Cast your Pride & Polish votes

November 30 is the deadline to help Overdrive honor the best of the best in our Pride & Polish virtual truck show. Cast your vote through Nov. 30 for the best among readers' entered trucks in each of five categories: Antique, Interior, Limited Mileage, Working Bobtail, and Working Combo.

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Pay wish list: Leased-owner, company-driver preferences v. reality

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Cline Everhart's 'sweet' 1997 Peterbilt 362E marks 'end of the cabover era'

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Overdrive's Partners in Business - The leading business training program for owner-operators.

Overdrive's Partners in Business - The leading business training program for owner-operators.

Compute the potential profit in any truckload, access per-day and per-mile breakouts with Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer

Compute the potential profit in any truckload, access per-day and per-mile breakouts with Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer

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Pay wish list: Leased-owner, company-driver preferences v. reality

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Truckers' tools to prevent fuel fraud, from complex AI to simple cybersecurity self-help

Pay wish list: Leased-owner, company-driver preferences v. reality

Five more ELDs lose certification from FMCSA

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Details on those specs? They're right here on the paired van trailer's side. It's Volvo's I-Torque spec for a D13TC (for 'Turbo Compound') engine equipped with a 500-hp/1,950 lb.-ft. rating, the automated-manual 13-speed I-Shift transmission, and that low axle ratio of 2.16.

The push to 12 mpg: How Joel Morrow's doing it with this VNL spec

Down to the wire: Cast your Pride & Polish votes

Nevada asks for truckers' input on truck parking | Recalls over brakes issues: International, Peterbilt

Cline Everhart's 'sweet' 1997 Peterbilt 362E marks 'end of the cabover era'

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Wyoming immigration raid hits I-25, I-80 with 40 'criminal alien' drivers arrested

'Every foreign truck driver's worst nightmare': Courts can't stop Trump, DOT's immigration crackdown

English-only CDL written tests: House bill introduced

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Details on those specs? They're right here on the paired van trailer's side. It's Volvo's I-Torque spec for a D13TC (for 'Turbo Compound') engine equipped with a 500-hp/1,950 lb.-ft. rating, the automated-manual 13-speed I-Shift transmission, and that low axle ratio of 2.16.

The push to 12 mpg: How Joel Morrow's doing it with this VNL spec

For owner-operators, fuel mileage improvement once depended in large part on speed. In order to maximize fuel economy, "you were driving 55 miles an hour," notes Joel Morrow in this new video about the "Purple Haze 2" VNL860, "agressively downsped" to achieve high torque at lower rpms. Slowing down still works, but powertrain specs contribute mightily.

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Pay wish list: Leased-owner, company-driver preferences v. reality

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