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Overdrive
| December 2014
December 2014 | Vol. 54 | No. 12
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
Editorial Director: Max Heine
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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DESIGN & PRODUCTION
Art Director: Kenneth Stubbs
Production Designer: David Watson
Quality Assurance: Timothy Smith
Advertising Production Manager:
Anne Marie Horton
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TRUCKING MEDIA
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Director of Content Marketing Services: Carolyn Mason
Special Projects Manager: Kathleen Buccleugh
Web Developer/Analyst: Marlin Caddell
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VOICES
4 GOP wins make CSA
reform more possible.
5 Pulse: "It's my turn
to give."
8 "Africa's Cowboy
Capitalists" documen-
tary.
12 Hauling Ebola hazmat
in Dallas.
LOGBOOK
14 Survey explores ELDs
and finds driver
harassment minimal.
15 Teamsters active with
FedEx, Con-way.
16 Progress made on chang-
ing liability insurance.
18 A new route for sleep
apnea screening.
CUSTOM RIGS
50 Overdrive's Most
Beautiful finalist "an
independent woman."
52 Reader Rigs: Clean,
old-school 379;
chromed-up 389 glider;
LTL T680 workhorses;
food-hauling W900L.
56 "Black Out" a tribute to
the troops.
23 BUSINESS
First Obamacare enrollment
deadline looms.
49 EQUIPMENT SPOTLIGHT
LEDs can brighten up your
workday.
59 GEAR GUIDE
Suspensions, flatbed, solar
panel, fuses, more.
68 FLEET NEWS
Con-way Truckload enhances
tuition program.
DEPARTMENTS
24
COVER STORY:
Scaling down
Hotshot hauling offers lower startup
costs and other advantages over running Class 8
over-the-road, but other tradeoffs make it challeng-
ing in its own right.
36
CSA's Fallout:
Oregon's edge on hours
The state's weight-distance tax data
helps it sharpen its focus on log book violations.
39
Drive Test:
Peterbilt Model 579 EPIQ
Peterbilt's groundbreaking Model 579
melded traditional Class 8 styling with highly effi-
cient aerodynamics. The new EPIQ package adds
an integrated drivetrain and more.
42
Lasting tributes
Overdrive's new Show Us Your Ink gal-
lery has drawn tattoo photos that show
the diversity of truckers' creative testimonials to the
themes most important to them.
Cover photo by Todd Dills
SOCIAL
MEDIA FAIL
Photographing
yourself "doing
something so
remarkably
stupid" and
then broad-
casting it is a
disservice to
the industry,
Wendy Parker
writes.
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