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Overdrive
| December 2014
I
n trucking, "hotshot"
commonly refers to
either the truck or the
freight – often both.
In the former sense,
it's normally a Class 3-5
truck used in combination
with a variety of trailers to
run for-hire freight, wheth-
er for a single customer or
less-than-truckload, though
there are exceptions (see
the "hotshot on steroids,"
p. 30). The truck often will
be one of the big three U.S.
auto manufacturers' ¾- to
1½-ton cab-and-chassis
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connections to a trailer.
Hotshot freight is hauled
for a single customer and
needed in expedited fashion.
Jeff Ward of the Atlanta area
says the local and region-
al loads he hauls with his
one-truck Brady's Hotshot
Hauling are "true hotshot
freight." That freight – pow-
er company equipment to
keep the electrical grid run-
ning – is needed as soon as
possible to avoid a shutdown.
Most agree the term orig-
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