Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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2 | Overdrive | April 2015 April 2015 | Vol. 55 | No. 4 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. 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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 Parking problem shifts out of idle. 5 Pulse: Owner-operator rebound continues. 6 What's messing with fuel surcharges? 10 Readers: Officers still asking for med card. LOGBOOK 16 Congress looking at CSA reforms. 21 Teamsters sue FMCSA over border decision. 24 SEC sues Navistar over redacted documents. 27 Ohio bill would limit truckers' lane usage. CUSTOM RIGS 54 Pride & Polish has set show truck design trends for 25 years. 58 Reader Rigs: '82 Freightliner COE all in the family; '14 Coronado gets a little chrome; '12 Peterbilt 389 a heavy hauler. 60 Florida's 75 Chrome Shop preps for 2015 Pride & Polish. 62 Truck races get rolling. 40 DIVERSIONS Weigh station doc; beating cancer; a song for kids. 52 EQUIPMENT SPOTLIGHT Batteries getting smaller, lighter and tougher. 65 GEAR GUIDE Tires, coolants, theft-proof LEDs, CB, more. 74 FLEET NEWS Fleets enhance trainer, driver pay packages. DEPARTMENTS 28 COVER STORY: On-demand load matching As mobile communications technol- ogy advancements give rise to streamlined freight transactions, some startups go so far as doing it all with a single app. Has "the Uberization of trucking" arrived? 36 2014 Company Driver of the Year a 'go-to guy' Gary Teel of Hinton, Iowa-based Weinrich Truck Line sees his work ethic pay off after winning $25,000 at the Truckload Carriers Association's Annual Convention. 44 Singles rolling steady Wide-based tires have found a small but solid niche – though with mixed recommendations from tire makers themselves. Converting a pair of duals to a single can be expensive, but the payoff's often worth it. 92 Worst Case Scenario: A truck fire! No one ever expects combustion out- side the engine, but it can happen. Here are a few tips on prevention and what to do if your rig or your freight starts going up in smoke. Cover design by Kenneth Stubbs NO MORE SNOW! Now that spring is here, maybe truckers won't be seeing too many more days like this. Page 10.