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Overdrive
| August 2014
August 2014 | Vol. 54 | No. 8
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
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Equipment Editor: Jack Roberts
Senior Editors: Todd Dills, Kevin Jones
Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood
News Editor: James Jaillet
Contributing Editors: Jill Dunn, Paul Hartley
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VOICES
4 Events spiral into hours
confusion.
5 Pulse: Remembering
Overdrive's founder.
6 Introducing e-logs no
small matter.
8 Driver turns the tables
on trooper.
LOGBOOK
14 The legacy of trucking
activist Mike Parkhurst.
14 Carriers sue Navistar
over EGR-only engines.
16 Drivers sue over pre-
employment reports.
17 Website changes focus
on crash risk.
CUSTOM RIGS
62 GATS preview:
Crowning show truck
kings.
66 Father, son win at
Fitzgerald Overdrive's
Pride & Polish.
72 Two new winners at
River States Customz
Pride & Polish.
78 'American Trucker' host
Mariani's white whale.
56 DIVERSIONS
Chatting with 'Ice Road
Trucker' Alex Debogorski.
60 EQUIPMENT SPOTLIGHT
Polishes, waxes help spiffy up
truck, image.
85 GEAR GUIDE
Air springs, lubes, lift axle,
therapy sock, more.
95 FLEET NEWS
Old Dominion opens, relocates
service centers.
DEPARTMENTS
Cover photo by Paul Provencher.
30
CSA's fallout: Shifting target
With crash causation studies highlight-
ing driver error and unsafe behavior,
enforcement agencies nationwide increasingly
are focusing on drivers' on-highway behavior.
40
COVER STORY:
Turning heads
Emily Ann Weymouth, winner of the
2014 Overdrive's Most Beautiful contest, gets
plenty of double-takes while doing the grimy job
of delivering motor oil, transmission fluid and
other lubricants.
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Gaining an advantage
Kenworth's updated T680 has an inte-
grated drivetrain and improved aerody-
namics for increased efficiency and fuel economy.
52
Dallas showdown
Three drivers will face off Aug. 22 at
the Great American Trucking Show to
see who walks away as winner of the Overdrive-
Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search.
A MIND OF ITS OWN Believe it or not,
Daimler's specially equipped Mercedes
Actros tractor-trailer can drive itself.
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