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âThe sun will hunt you downâ in the truck: Joe Jolly on skin cancer risk
58-year-old Joe Jolly, following removal of a small spot of an aggressive type of skin cancer from his upper lip, offers a word of caution for younger drivers. Anything you can do to protect yourself from damaging ultraviolet radiation while trucking over the road today will pay dividends in later years.
June 14, 2019
AOBRD to ELD deadline near yearend: Switch not always easy as it might seem
Contrary to what some legacy e-log providers told us ahead of the mandate about updating then-current equipment to comply with the ELD spec, this small fleet safety director found that simple over-the-air software updates havenât been able to do the trick, for several reasons.
June 13, 2019
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If your ELD goes down, go to paper, or ⌠ELS, anyone?
What are your options in the event of ELD malfunction? Amid an outage of Rand McNally devices, here's what regs require and FMCSA allows -- not just paper.
June 11, 2019
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âOver the Roadâ â Paul Marhoefer back with new track in Muscle Shoals
Video: Scenes from another recording session with our own Overdrive Extra contributing writer and Moeller Trucking driver Paul Marhoefer. This particular session took place back at the Music Shoals Music studio of Donnie and Jan Gullett in Tuscumbia, Ala.
June 7, 2019
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Over-reliance on GPS leads to âŚ.
Weâve all heard the stories of trucks stuck on pedestrian bridges, old covered bridges, cowpaths, logging roads to nowhere ⌠but a British author recently threw down a new marker for where humanityâs over-reliance on turn-by-turn navigation might be leading. Thereâs good news for most truckers, too âŚ
June 6, 2019
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Time and cost, redux: Where the owner-op is the smartest guy â in a roomful of carrier execs
So, what is your time worth? Turns out, itâs likely a lot more owner-operators have a clear sense of that than fleet execs when it comes to the trucking business.
June 4, 2019
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âTennessee Alabama Fireworksâ: The new record from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Boo Ray
Latest on Overdrive Radio: Ride along with Ray on a tour through his latest, named after a familiar site on I-24 anyone whoâs run west from Chattanooga will recognize. The record starts with a trio of road songs in which thereâs no shortage of mirth, pathos and more.
May 31, 2019
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Market-making: âMustangâ Mike Crawford creates his own for parking
Crawford carried a joke into reality recently at an Illinois truck stop mid-afternoon that was filling up fast: âFor this nice, easy parking space, give me $5 and Iâll leave right now for you.â
May 29, 2019
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Complete connection: New patented trailer-pigtail securement-assist device designed by trucker
Got flickering trailer lights? Vincent Archuletaâs VSA PlugSaver is essentially two custom-designed straps built for longer-term life that, installed on the trailer housing for the pigtail connection, can reduce motion in the plug, maintaining a secure electrical connection and effectively preventing wear.
May 28, 2019
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Owner-operator Chuck Kumalaa on his decision to stay out through the holiday weekend
Youâve just found out that your electronic load confirmation with a delivery appointment for today was bunk because the business is shut down for Memorial Day. What do you do? And: Why owner-operator Chuck Kumalaa stayed out this weekend knowing in advance he wouldnât deliver before Tuesday.
May 27, 2019
Custom Rigs
Round-up: Brood of kittens hauled Hayward to San Diego, a 1940 COE project out west, and â more proof W9âs a work truck
A look at J.D. Howardâs restored 1995 W900L â a show-worthy unit we saw at MATS â doing what it does in the Great Lakes winter; imagine the surprise of the jobsite crew in San Diego when a 60-foot steel column start mewling at them; and: Howard Salmonâs 1940 Chevy COE find.
May 22, 2019
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Report your boot: Mich. small fleet owner crowd-sourcing booting incidents
Leander Richmond launched ReportaBoot.com, intended to collect booting incident reports directly from drivers/carriers from the last few years, and in ongoing fashion â with a mind toward spurring action to tamp down particular practices of the âparking lot pirates,â as he calls a new breed of âparking enforcementâ providers.
May 21, 2019
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âJoeyâs Rideâ with trucking at Ohio elementary school; a trucker-songwriter releases first record in 40 years
Scenes from trucker-songwriter Tony Justice and Trucker Nationâs surprise visit to an elementary-school fan in Defiance, Ohio, last week Friday. Also: Longtime highway hauler and songwriter Will Beeleyâs return to recorded music â after a nearly 40-year record hiatus.
May 20, 2019
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New book chronicles the pop rise and fall of the âfirst electronic social networkâ
From the âslanguageâ used by truckers and others over the radio to the role of truckers in the CBâs popularity growth in the 1970s, Missouri writer and academic Tim Scherrerâs new book is the culmination of 23 years of research in 296 pages, with 44 illustrations and more than 200 sources.
May 16, 2019
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A bit of togetherness in Defiance, Ohio, this Friday
When trucker-songwriter Tony Justice heard about an Ohio boy who loved trucks and his music, using it to help him focus on his work, he took a teacherâs request for CDs one further. This Friday, a convoy in the young manâs honor is set to kick off, and Trucker Nation is inviting the local community.
May 14, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs
Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederholdâs quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.
May 13, 2019
Custom Rigs
A short trade cycle to a 2020 Peterbilt 389, custom touches shown out at MATS
Independent Tad Schultz hauls step deck freight now in this beautiful rig. The 2020, powered by a 565-hp Cummins X15 engine, he put into service after extensive custom dressing working with Iowa Customs for parts from a variety of suppliers, HD Equipment in Grand Mound for the work in which he also participated.
May 10, 2019
Custom Rigs
Portrait of two classics: â71 Autocar and its paint schemeâs inspiration, â74 Diamond Reo goes to the museum
Ohio-based heavy equipment operator James Green hunts down the inspiration for his late fatherâs 1971 Autocarâs paint scheme in a 1980 Overdrive issue, and donates his grandfatherâs 1974 Diamond Reo, his final truck, to the Iowa 80 trucking museum. Take a run through some of that history with Green here.
May 8, 2019
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