Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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2 | Overdrive | May 2016 May 2016 | Vol. 56 | No. 5 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Equipment Editor: Jason Cannon Senior Editor: Todd Dills Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood News Editor: James Jaillet Associate Editor: Matt Cole 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: Leah Boyd 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 Craft Web Developer/Analyst: Marlin Caddell Contact: sales@truckingmedia.com 3200 Rice Mine Rd NE | Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 800-633-5953 | randallreilly.com CORPORATE Chairman: Mike Reilly President/CEO: Brent Reilly Chief Operating Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Financial Officer: Russell McEwen Senior Vice President, Sales: Scott Miller Senior Vice President, Editorial and Research: Linda Longton Senior Vice President, Acquisitions & Business Development: Robert Lake Senior Vice President, Data: Prescott Shibles Vice President of Events: Stacy McCants Vice President, Digital Services: Nick Reid Vice President, 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. COVER: Photo by Jason Benias VOICES 4 Readers witness years of plunging rates. 5 Pulse: Explaining a rash of injuries. 10 Driver before truck in small fleet growth. 12 ELD mandate creates 'tough call.' LOGBOOK 14 Bill would revamp hours regs. 15 New food hauler regs to start next year. 16 'Beyond Compliance' could be CSA category. 18 FMCSA, truck groups spar over safety fitness. CUSTOM RIGS 48 75 Chrome Shop in Wildwood, Fla., hosts first Overdrive's Pride & Polish event of 2016. 50 '88 Mike' opens 2016 ChampTruck season with win. 52 Reader Rigs: '13 T660 salutes vets; '14 388 a 'Guilty Pleasure'; '07 379 an Okie hopper; '15 W900L heavy in Alaska. A SENSIBLE APPROACH | Roadside stops routinely put truckers in need of self-protection, Wendy Parker writes. Page 8. 26 ELD mandate: Big savings or big loss? Depending on who to believe, the electronic logging device mandate will save carriers and drivers more than $1 billion – or cost them nearly $700 million. 28 COVER STORY: Helping hands Edward Mark Tricco, the 2015 Owner-Operator of the Year, benefits from two strong partners and makes a habit of looking out for others. 31 Long live your tires With proper spec'ing and mainte- nance, you can contain one of your biggest expenses. 38 Diversions Telemedicine fits trucker schedules, budgets; The Trucking Podcast; Shell Rotella SuperRigs; Justice-Tippin 'Brothers of the Highway' music video. 40 Overdrive's Most Beautiful: The top 10 Meet the finalists in our annual recognition program that highlights the accom- plishments and inner and outer beauty of female drivers. DEPARTMENTS 44 EQUIPMENT SPOTLIGHT | Trailer components. 57 GEAR GUIDE | Mid-America Trucking Show highlights. 67 FLEET NEWS | Trimac offers CDL tuition reimbursement. 80 REARVIEW | CB: tool of the trade.