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Paul Marhoefer performed this original track at the 2018 edition of Overdrive/Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search at the Dallas Great American Trucking Show. His performance opened the 2018 edition of the competition, eventually won by Mandi Jo Pinheiro.

Paul Marhoefer performs the track that got him into the 2015 final round of Overdrive/Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search. His performance opened the 2018 edition of the competition, eventually won by Mandi Jo Pinheiro.

Owner-operator Mandi Jo Pinheiro -- in a team with her husband, William -- won the Overdrive/Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search 2018 competition with this performance of an original tune crafted after a solicitation of the community of drivers asking about their favorite route to truck — and why. Read more about the track via this link:https://www.overdriveonline.com/idaho-independent-wins-trucke...

This track, from Tony Justice's "Apple Pie Moonshine" record, was one of two Tony Justice performed while emcee'ing the 2018 Trucker Talent Search at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas while the judges worked.

Tony Justice emcee'd the 2018 Trucker Talent Search, which happened August 24 at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. He also performed this track from his "Brothers of the Highway" record, written with his wife, Misty.

LaVergne, Tenn.-based Ryder Integrated Logistics driver B.J. Williams live from the Trucker Talent Search, which happened August 24 at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas.

Accelerated, Inc., driver James Nelson live from the Trucker Talent Search at 2018's Great American Trucking Show in Dallas.

This run through recent messages on Overdrive Radio's podcast message line reveals what many drivers want out of any hours of service revision -- options to stop the 14-hour clock without additional complication, though ideas for how to get there show some variation.

In a wide-ranging but broad interview, FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez spoke with Overdrive in an exclusive interview about trucking industry pain points, the ongoing transition to electronic logging devices, evaluating hours of service reforms, implementation of automated vehicle tech and what he hopes to accomplish as FMCSA's administrator.

In this Overdrive Radio special editor, you'll hear a little more directly from each of this year's Overdrive/Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search finalists – Mandi Jo Pinheiro, James Nelson and B.J. Williams, all of whom were interviewed by Red Eye Radio’s Eric Harley in advance of the final competition. That will take place Friday, Aug. 24, at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. For those...

If you’ve ever had the experience of a starter going bad at ever-decreasing intervals — the first one on the truck from the factory lasted 500,000 miles, the next one 200,000, etc. — you could be experiencing a phenomenon noted by Danial Mustafa, TA Truck Centers’ Director of Technical Services. Absent the right diagnostic equipment to troubleshoot conditions all along the loaded-up electrical and...

In the relative calm before a storm that walloped Lexington, Ky., as the first day of the Expedite Expo let out last month, Overdrive Radio sat down with the two finalists and ultimately runners-up for the Expediter of the Year award: AD Transportation driver Nancy Hudson and cargo van small fleet owner and Class 8 straight truck owner-operator Eric Escobar. The two shared insights from decades in...

This Overdrive Radio edition checks in with a more complete introduction to Clifford Petersen’s leased operation with Christenson transportation, headquartered near Springfield, Mo., with more than 100 power units hauling mostly dry freight, Petersen notes. For regular Overdrive readers, Petersen probably needs no introduction, as he’s written several blog posts in recent times in which he draws o...

Cargo van owner-operator Tim Paxton, leased to Arkansas-based Barrett Directline, is the 2018 Expediter of the Year, and in this edition of Overdrive Radio, recorded prior to the announcement of his award July 21 at Expedite Expo, Paxton lays out a variety challenges faced by his and others' small-vehicle trucking operations. He's got an eye on the successes, too, though, from a healthy income for...

As of press time, more than a month after the One20 company ceased operations entirely, and nearly three months after the owner of an affiliated business, the single-truck One20 Trucking, resigned his position as head of One20 Inc., owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt, contracted to One20 Trucking, were still owed money for loads booked and hauled for the company, they say. The former One20 Truck...

Hose was put out of service with a false-log violation in Missouri early in June, as his One20 ELD was giving him problems en route a couple weeks prior to the company stopping support for the device on June 18. For Hose, his run with that particular ELD is one marred by inexplicable automatic duty-status changes and other malfunctions he can’t explain to this day, His story is one of difficulty,...

Pam Young's thoughts on produce rates post-ELD mandate and how the Food Safety Modernization Act's new sanitary transportation requirements led her to develop a new automated reefer washout effort lead this podcast discussion with the produce broker, following up on parts of the discussion in last week's Overdrive Radio edition.

A brief run through the mailbag with disheartened haulers affected by the shuttering of the One20 F-ELD just a couple months beyond the April 1 out-of-service enforcement date for the ELD mandate. And a more extensive talk with produce broker Pam Young, well-learned in old-school ways, preferring the personal touch to digital standoffishness when it comes to building relationships with carriers. A...

Ahead of her Rotella SuperRigs performance in Raphine, Va., June 16, Australia singer-songwriter Jayne Denham sat down with us in Nashville to talk in-roads with the U.S. trucking community, her new "Calamity" record, the "Lights on the Hill" memorial for fallen haulers taken before their time in Australia and more. Also: Bonus update from the scene with the custom rigs on offer at White's Travel...

This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast picks up in part from where we left off in the intro last week with a note from Carolyn Carroll on the utility she finds in paid parking reservations. You can find our report, “ELDs up the ante on parking”, on the growth in those (reviled by many but appreciated by many as well) and much more besides at OverdriveOnline.com. In our talk Carroll lays out h...

More tales of private parking enforcement via booting and towing result in what James Smith of Jackson, Ga., calls a "very expensive Kentucky Fried Chicken meal." Further perspective on the utility of paid-reserved parking, the demise of truck-dedicated parking at the Walmart in Aurora, Colo., and some predictions from panelists at last week's Truckstop.com's user conference in Dallas on just how...

The first in what will ultimately be two podcasts sharing portions of a trucking-insights panel held at Truckstop.com’s third Connected user conference, held earlier this week in Dallas. Insights on rates growth post-ELD mandate, economic conditions and just when we might look out for a downturn, automation in trucking and brokerage and much more were on offer from Tucker Company Worldwide broker...

Independent owner-operator W. Joel Baker's W. recent blog post about business opportunity, rate improvement and other conditions since the ELD mandate was the jumping-off point for this edition of Overdrive Radio. Baker trucks in an ELD-exempt 1999 International, and he’s had difficulty keeping up with is customers’ demand for RV delivery lately, given the double whammy of an improved economy and...

Owner-op Jim Bardsley believes about the best thing that could happen to trucking, from perspectives of safety and so much more, is the spread of the brotherhood virus, a return of some semblance of honor to the hiring practices, follow-on training protocols and more in place today at carriers large and small. Bardsley, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, reflects on his three-decade-plus career a...

A run through the mailbag with contrarians and true believers around the question of whether the ELD mandate has exacerbated parking issues around the nation. And: A little detail on an hours-enforcement-with-ELD situation that begged for officer leniency when none was to be had.