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Brakes, tires, no medical card among top Roadcheck violations
Brakes-system and tire problems made up the most common out-of-service (OOS) violations during the annual International Roadcheck inspection blitz earlier this year. For drivers, lacking a valid medical certification led to the most OOS orders.The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck, this year held May 12-14, is a three-day inspection and outreach initiative.[Related: Roadcheck: Inspectors 'behind the curve' on new breed…
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Brakes, tires, no medical card among top Roadcheck violations
Brakes-system and tire problems made up the most common out-of-service (OOS) violations during the annual International Roadcheck inspection blitz earlier this year. For drivers, lacking a valid medical certification led to the most OOS orders.The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck, this year held May 12-14, is a three-day inspection and…
Latest $9K parking-lot-trap truck tow: Turn state-local rules to your favor
A tip of the hat off the top of this week’s Overdrive Radio edition to our social media coordinator Jazzmin Campbell, who shared with me yet another towing mishap occurring in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina. It bears some of the hallmarks of a parking-lot trap, the driver reporting a…
‘Big Red’: Stuart Geltmaker’s stunning 1979 Kenworth K100
Stuart Geltmaker, a retired heavy equipment operator out of Floyds Knobs, Indiana, has always had a thing for big trucks, and cabovers in particular.Regular Overdrive readers will be familiar with Geltmaker, as one of his custom builds -- his “Black Widow” 1986 GMC General -- was featured here a year…
Cargo theft loss values skyrocket | Latest truck, trailer recalls
Cargo theft incidents declining, yet loss value just keeps climbingThe recent trend of declining numbers of reported cargo theft incidents coupled with rising cost impacts of those thefts kept up in the second quarter, according to theft recording firm Verisk CargoNet.The firm documented 677 supply chain theft incidents across the…
AI in the driver’s seat? Tony Justice v. Suno a ‘fight for the little guy’
For this week’s edition of Overdrive Radio, we're picking up with longtime trucker-songwriter and performer Tony Justice after news of the Large Cars & Guitars truck show’s big 2026 $14K haul for the Susan G. Komen foundation.That makes $200K-plus given by the show's participating truckers and sponsors to the breast…
Freedom 250 Peterbilt 589: Get up close with a rarity
Overdrive sister publication CCJ's Chief Editor Jason Cannon got an up-close look at one of 250 units in Peterbilt's recently announced Freedom 250 limited edition run of the Pete 589. In the video up top, Cannon runs through the special edition unit debuted in late May as a celebration of America's…