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Overdrive Extra: Page 32
Report: Small carriers being hammered by bad rates, slow freight
Shippers are “pounding on rates,” the report says, referring to the present pricing situation as “rate carnage.” Small carriers like owner-operators are having a hard time keeping up, the report says.
July 14, 2016
Rearview: Providing a forum for ‘The Voice’
Though the section has changed names and formats in the 55 years since its founding, Overdrive continues to build its reputation on championing reader representation and the principles they care about. The magazine cover still proudly uses the tagline “The Voice of the American Trucker.”
July 12, 2016
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‘Problem load’? No problem
Overdrive’s 2016 Most Beautiful winner Brita Nowak’s story is a great one, especially for independents trying to find new business. There are many skills to master as a single-truck owner-operator, but being up for a challenging run, like Nowak was, can land good business and steady paychecks.
July 11, 2016
Overdrive Extra
And this little piggy paved the road
There’s a lot of money to be saved if roads were paved with asphalt using processed pig manure, according to a team at North Carolina A&T State University.
July 5, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Being Brita: Overdrive’s Most Beautiful winner soars as an independent trucker
If anyone can model a competent, strong woman flourishing in a traditionally male-dominated business, it’s Brita Nowak, Overdrives 2016 Most Beautiful contest winner. More on Brita and her one-truck independent business here…
June 20, 2016
Custom Rigs
Owner of classic W9 specializes in survival: ‘I refuse to lose’
John Jaikes is clearly a hard-working independent and a proud show truck exhibitor. What’s not so obvious is that he’s a survivor — of repeat bouts with cancer and a wreck with a possibly suicidal four-wheeler.
June 13, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: The heyday of mom and pop truck stops
Before the proliferation of large truck stop chains came to grace interstate highways, one-off mom-and-pop establishments found on two-lane highways were the norm. In the 1960s, the peak of such operations, Overdrive offered an advertising outlet for those small businesses to make their locations, products, services and amenities known to the nation’s independent truckers.
June 9, 2016
Overdrive Extra
SFD rule’s crash-risk disconnect: Data show most analyzed ‘Unfit’ carriers don’t crash
ASECTT’s Freedom of Information Act-obtained numbers show that 76 percent of carriers with five or fewer trucks, and who would have been flagged Unfit to operate under the proposed SFD’s parameters, recorded no crashes in the 12 months following the analyzed ‘Unfit’ determination. The numbers — and the questions they present about the proposed rule’s methodology — add to mounting pressure the agency’s faced since publishing the proposed rule in January.
June 3, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Whining vs. changing: The case for personal responsibility
Part of Overdrive’s mission is to help owner-operators prosper as they choose their own destiny, an idea frequently echoed at Kevin Rutherford’s CMC Live event.
May 27, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Small carriers/owner-ops land 40% of freight contracted to large carriers, report claims
Freight being subcontracted to smaller carriers from larger ones is not news to the industry. But LaneAxis says its research shows the practice is perhaps more prevalent than previously though, given the large share of freight — 42 percent of total bookings, says LaneAxis — pushed to smaller carriers and owner-operators by some of the country’s largest.
May 26, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: Tool of the trade
Befitting the CB’s repute of the era, Overdrive each month in the late 1970s published an entire section devoted to CBs, associated equipment, articles about truckers using CBs to chase on-the-run criminals and more.
May 4, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Fatalities down, injuries way up. What gives?
FMCSA’s report says that the number of trucks involved in fatal accidents decreased 5 percent in 2014. The only problem is a conflicting statistic: Injuries in truck-involved wrecks increased by 21 percent. I asked around for explanations.
May 2, 2016
Overdrive Extra
The latest on speed limiters: Senate wants DOT to act now
Proponents of a speed limiter mandate, like some trucking lobbyists and so-called safety advocacy groups, appear tired of the DOT dragging its feet in getting the proposed rule published and have asked Congress to intervene.
April 28, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Off the clock: An hours of service alternative
Whatever happens for better or for worse, it’s worth noting that a system based in reality – the driver’s true fitness for duty, not some rigid, almost arbitrary system cooked up by regulators – could be a big improvement over a one-size-fits-all system that actually fits very few.
April 23, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Teamsters, safety groups to Congress: Don’t touch hours of service
Two key trucking items likely to see action in the appropriations process include a fix to the hours of service legislative screw-up from Congress’ 2016 DOT appropriations law and the revival of the so-called “federal authority” provisions floated in recent transportation-related bills.
April 18, 2016
Overdrive Extra
A stranded truck, sub-zero temps, the smell of trouble
In this video, Mark Tricco recounts his encounter with a driver unprepared for being stranded in a Canadian winter.
April 6, 2016
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: Peterbilt ads through the years
From the long needle-nose models of the ’60s to the cabovers of the ’70s and ’80s, the 20-year reign of the iconic Model 379 and today’s modern aerodynamic tractor stylings, Peterbilt tractors have graced the back cover of Overdrive for nearly 40 years. Here’s a look at some of the truck maker’s Overdrive ads through the decades.
April 6, 2016
Custom Rigs
Cadillac + custom International Eagle = The Game Changer
“I figured it’s time we brought something different to the equation. That’s why I call it The Game Changer,” says owner Zebie Daniel.
March 26, 2016
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