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Overdrive's Custom Rigs Showdown: Round 1 kicks off

With the 12-team College Football Playoff around the corner, Overdrive opens up this bracket-style challenge featuring the top 12 Custom Rigs videos published in 2025, to let you determine the overall winner for the year. Cast your round 1 votes by Dec. 17.

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'Peanut's Pride': Owner-op's second chance after close brush with death

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Small fleet owner's '88 Pete 379 Pretty Bitchin' with B-model Cat

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DOT's non-domiciled CDL crackdown hugely popular with truck drivers: Overdrive survey results

Hot Shot's Secret - EDT+ Winter Defense - Your 7-in-1 Anti-Gel Fuel Boost - Make every fill-up premium!

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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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Overdrive's Custom Rigs Showdown: Round 1 kicks off

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'Peanut's Pride': Owner-op's second chance after close brush with death

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FMCSA's training-provider purge: 'Crackdown' or cleanup?

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CRST downsizing one-way OTR business | Truck stop prostitution sting nets arrests

'Peanut's Pride': Owner-op's second chance after close brush with death

DOT's non-domiciled CDL crackdown hugely popular with truck drivers: Overdrive survey results

FMCSA's training-provider purge: 'Crackdown' or cleanup?

Round 1 of the competition is now open. Check out the videos for each matchup and cast your votes at this link, or at the bottom of this post.

Overdrive's Custom Rigs Showdown: Round 1 kicks off

Small fleet owner's '88 Pete 379 Pretty Bitchin' with B-model Cat

Canada plans inspection blitz targeting misclassified operators | Three recalls hit International, Volvo, Mack

FMCSA overhauls ELD vetting after logs-tampering craze

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Homeland Security tightens foreign worker authorizations after National Guardsman shooting

Alabama joins forces with ICE in trucking immigration crackdown

Fleet owner gets prison time, to pay $1.9M in restitution for tax evasion

Texas driver caught smuggling 23 people in sleeper | Oversize haulers' HOS exemption renewed

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Catastrophic engine failure delivers customer calamity: How these owners prep for the worst

The "exit interviews," round 1, with four 2025 Trucker of the Year contenders, with the big push to the opportunity a new year always brings to set goals, lay plans and start acting on them. Yet it’s also true that in so many ways the time for that is now -- for any small trucking business, at any given moment.

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