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March 2015

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2 | Overdrive | March 2015 March 2015 | Vol. 55 | No. 3 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Equipment Editor: Jack Roberts Senior Editor: Todd Dills Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood News Editor: James Jaillet Contributing Editors: Jill Dunn, Paul Hartley Contact: truckingeditorial@gmail.com DESIGN & PRODUCTION Art Director: Kenneth Stubbs Production Designer: David Watson Quality Assurance: Timothy Smith Advertising Production Manager: Anne Marie Horton Contact: production@overdriveonline.com TRUCKING MEDIA Vice President of Sales, Trucking Media: Brad Holthaus Director of Content Marketing Services: Carolyn Mason Special Projects Manager: Kathleen Buccleugh Web Developer/Analyst: Marlin Caddell Contact: sales@truckingmedia.com 3200 Rice Mine Rd NE | Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 800-633-5953 | randallreilly.com CORPORATE Chairman/CEO: Mike Reilly President: Brent Reilly Chief Process Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Administration Officer: David Wright Senior Vice President, Sales: Scott Miller Senior Vice President, Editorial and Research: Linda Longton Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Business Development: Robert Lake Vice President of Events: Stacy McCants Vice President, Audience Development: Prescott Shibles Vice President, Digital Services: Nick Reid Director of Marketing: Julie Arsenault EDITORIAL HONORS Subscription inquiries: For subscripton info call 800-517-4979 in the U.S., or 847-763-9610 outside the U.S. Rates for non- qualified subscriptions: US & possessions $34.97; Canada/ Mexico & foreign $65.00, payable in U.S. dollars. Single copies are available for $6 US, $9 Canada/Mexico, and $12 foreign. Four-time Magazine of the Year finalist plus 57 other awards. Only trucking magazine to win five Editorial Excellence Awards Jesse H. Neal 2014 Grand Neal Award winner Overdrive (ISSN 0030-7394) is published monthly and is a registered trademark of its publisher, Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC., 3200 Rice Mine Road N.E., Tuscaloosa, AL 35406. Periodicals postage-paid at Tuscaloosa, AL, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: SEND ALL UAA TO CFS. (SEE DMM 507.1.5.2); NON-POSTAL AND MILITARY FACILITIES: send address corrections to Overdrive, 3200 Rice Mine Rd NE, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Copyright (c) 2015 Randall-Reilly Publishing Company, LLC. ® ® ® ® overdriveonline.com For change of address and other subscription inquiries, please contact: overdrive@halldata.com Join all our friends at facebook.com/ OverdriveTrucking Follow breaking news and commentary at twitter.com/ OverdriveUpdate Subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com/ OverdriveMag Subscribe to daily newsletter or monthly magazine at overdriveonline.com/subscribe/ Exercise your trucking business mind at "Overdrive's Trucking Pro"group at Linkedin.com Share industry headlines via the "Overdrive magazine" page at plus.google.com Share and comment on photography from around the trucking world at Instagram.com/overdrivetrucking. VOICES 4 Getting 20-somethings interested in trucking. 5 Pulse: How to engage potential drivers. 10 Convoy honors Ohio trucking legend. 10 Celebrating mom-and- pop truck stop dining. LOGBOOK 14 Highway funding debate ramps up. 14 CDL drivers don't need paper med card copies. 16 West Coast ports reach labor agreement. 16 Trucker Talent Search accepting submissions. CUSTOM RIGS 60 Deadline for Overdrive's Most Beautiful looms. 62 Reader Rigs: '91 FLD 120 under the rainbow; '09 Pete 388 for all sea- sons; '01 Pete 379 hauls snowbirds; '07 Classic goes chrome all over. 64 Pro Tips: Add-ons can help engine live longer. 66 A playful Pride & Polish competitor. 24 BUSINESS Owner-operator income hits record high. 42 DIVERSIONS Truck stop life captured; trucking movie, comic. 69 GEAR GUIDE Tires, manifold, LEDs, carpet sets, more. 76 FLEET NEWS LTL fleets open, relocate service centers. DEPARTMENTS 28 Day of reckoning As health insurance tax penalties hit many owner-operators, the prospect of paying double next year could change their decision on coverage. 34 Severe Service: Texas two-step Freightliner leaned hard on its highway tractors to develop the SD vocational line. That's a good thing. 44 Equipment Spotlight: Flatbed trailers Today's open-deck trailers are built lighter and offer features to minimize everyday wear and tear. 52 Truckers, start your engines The ChampTruck World Series brings Class 8 truck rac- ing back to the United States with 100-mph road course action that kicks off next month. Cover photo by Todd Dills CAMERAS AND CRAYONS | Wendy Parker and her husband, George, have different ways to deal with on-the-road stress. Page 8.

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