Overdrive

February 2016

Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info

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68 | Overdrive | February 2016 ReaRview O verly picky roadside inspectors, untimely but necessary equipment repairs and a highway full of unseasoned truckers may sound like 2016 owner-operator annoyances. But as evidenced by these 1970s cartoons from Overdrive, they're problems that have persisted for nearly a half- century. In its second decade, the 1970s, Overdrive began a monthly "Clutch-a- Caption" contest. Readers submit- ted humorous and colorful commentary as captions for a cartoon. Winners received $25, and later $50. In each month's issue, Overdrive published a new captionless cartoon, along with the previous month's cartoon with its winning caption. In addition to their takes on repairs and roadside enforcement, the cartoons also reveal problems of a bygone era, such as managing a pre-deregulation patchwork of rules caused by state-to-state variability in trucking laws, as well as unapologetic sexism. Different times, similar problems BY JAMES JAILLET The winning caption for this cartoon, published in the December 1979 Overdrive, read, "You mean to tell me that's a new fuel squeezer you're put- ting in my rig[?]".

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