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May 2017 | Overdrive | 51 Coast to coast Ingrid Brown, an independent owner-operator and owner of Rollin' B LLC, runs solo in her 2007 Peterbilt 379 from Virginia to California and back three times a month hauling a mix of dry goods and produce. The truck has a 550-hp Cat with an 18-speed and 3:42 rears. Brown equipped the truck with a cus- tom visor, 7-inch turnout stacks with 90-degree elbows and an American Eagle bumper. SHOW US YOUR RIG Reader Rigs submissions can be made online at overdriveonline.com/ custom-rigs-gallery. Extreme recovery James Hendrickson of Idaho Falls, Idaho, uses his 2016 Peterbilt 389 for extreme recovery and truck wrecks in Idaho and Montana. The truck is equipped with a Miller Industries 35-ton rotator and fea- tures custom graphics with extra chrome and lighting. It won Best of Show at the 2016 American Towman Expo in Las Vegas.

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• Better blades Over recent years, wiper blades have seen one basic change and the addition of some special features.
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• Growing debate over rest area commercialization.
• Pulse: Robots vs. ELDs.
• Special Olympics work part of major honor.
• In the per-diem weeds.
• OOIDA takes aim at “bad regs.”
• OOIDA takes ELD case to Supreme Court.
• Swift-Knight merger creates 30,000-truck fleet.
• Court upholds Crete’s apnea testing policy.
• Many concerns at autonomous truck hearing.
• CFI driver named Overdrive’s Most Beautiful.
• Antique Chevy Loadmaster comes back to life.
• Reader Rigs: ’01 379 living in style; ’96 379 rockin’ a flattop; ’17 W900 a tribute to father; ’16 389 into extreme recovery; ’07 379 goes coast to coast.
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