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Tubes.............................................. 866-210-5545 .................................................65 Big Rig Lending ..................................... BigRigLending.com ........................................ 23 Blue Tiger USA....................................... 800-935-1165 ................................................. 58 Cat Scale ............................................... 877-228-7225 .................................................24 CCJ Fall Symposium .............................. CCJSymposium.com ........................................66 Coast to Coast ...................................... 888-266-0499 ................................................67 Comfort Innovations LLC ...................... GetGoCool.com ...............................................66 Coston Professional Associates ........... 765-778-2409 .................................................67 Cruise King ............................................ 952-944-9644 ................................................63 Cummins ................................................ CumminsEngines.com ...................................... 11 Cutc Inc. ................................................ 866-927-8294 .................................................63 Detroit Diesel ........................................ DemandDetroit.com/TandemAxles ..................3 Detroit Diesel Western Star .................. WesternStar.com/powertrain ......................... 21 Diesel Spec Inc. ..................................... 855-932-0060 ................................................43 Donvel.................................................... 800-411-1725 .................................................. 64 Eagle Capital ......................................... 800-483-7079 ............................................... 64 Etcom..................................................... EtcomInc.com .................................................67 FleetPride .............................................. 800-967-6206 ................................................22 Freightliner ........................................... Freightliner.com/New-Cascadia ................. IFC-1 Fumoto Engineering of America ........... 425-869-7771 ..................................................66 GoNMF ................................................... GoNMF.com .....................................................63 Great American Chrome ....................... 229-559-4577 .................................................49 Great American Trucking Show ............. GATSOnline.com ....................................... 56, 57 Harbor Freight Tools ............................. 800-423-2567 ................................................69 Hogebuilt .............................................. 800-421-1589 .................................................. 51 Howes Lubricator .................................. 800-438-4693 .......................................... 19, 25 Iowa 80 Merchandise ............................ 866-4-IOWA80 ................................................26 Iowa 80 Truckers Jamboree ................. TruckersJamboree.com ..................................55 Jones Manufacturing ............................ 419-465-2009 .................................................67 Landstar ............................................... Lease2Landstar.com....................................... 61 Lincoln Industries ................................. 402-475-3671 ..................................................53 Load Training ......................................... 800-776-7067 ................................................ 64 Lock N Lube ........................................... 603-795-2298 .................................................63 Majestic Synthetic Oil Co. LLC .............. 713-674-3333 ..................................................70 Michelin ................................................. UniroyalTruckTires.com ....................................7 Minimizer ............................................... 800-248-3855.................................................33 Neal Freeman Investments ................... 866-770-7200 .................................................63 Overdrive's Partners in Business ......... OverdriveOnline.com/PIB ...............................47 Overdrive's Pride & Polish .................... PrideAndPolish.com ........................................37 P.G. Adams Inc. ...................................... 866-851-6478 .................................................52 PDQ Inc. ................................................. 888-320-5644 ............................................... 50 Peterbilt ................................................ Peterbilt.com ................................................. BC Petro-TA................................................. TA-Petro.com ..................................................39 PPG Industries ....................................... TruckShopLocator.com ................................... 15 Prepass .................................................. 877-839-6830 ...........................................40-41 Progressive Commercial ....................... Progressive.com ...............................................9 ProMiles................................................. 800-324-8588 ............................................... 60 Sapp Bros. ............................................. SappBros.net ..................................................27 Schneider .............................................. SchneiderOwnerOperators.com ................... IBC Seven Oaks Capital................................ 800-511-4588 ..................................................63 Shell Lubricants .................................... 800-231-6950 ...................................... 16, 17, 35 Swift ...................................................... SwiftTrans.com ...............................................29 TBS Factoring Services ......................... 800-207-7661 ..................................................62 TCA Driver of the Year .......................... Truckload.org/Driver-Of-The-Year .................59 Truckers Mall ......................................... TruckersMall.net .............................................66 Truckstop.com ....................................... 800-203-2540 ................................................ 18 Water Cannon ........................................ WaterCannon.com ...........................................65 Western Star.......................................... 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• STARSTRUCK: Wendy Parker’s meeting with a famous country singer brings her to tears.
• COVER STORY: Taking care of business Landstar operator Gary Buchs chooses loads, drives low miles and frees his schedule by applying numbers derived from his annual income goal. Those are just some of the reasons Buchs is the winner of the 2016 Owner-Op
• New VNR a response to evolving regional market Volvo Trucks North America has a new addition to its VN Series: the VNR, a regional-haul tractor that will succeed the VNM at yearend.
• International debuts regional-haul tractor International Truck’s new RH Series tractor replaces the ProStar 113-inch BBC model and the TranStar 107.
• Better blades Over recent years, wiper blades have seen one basic change and the addition of some special features.
• Diversions Book spotlights essential nature of trucking Down Under; rise to the occasion for better health; new doc presses issues of failing infrastructure.
• 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.
• ’87 Pete has original motor with less than 200K miles.
• BUSINESS Rethink ‘saying no to cheap freight.’
• Gear Guide Driveshaft, torque rod, sunglasses, more.
• FLEET NEWS Bay & Bay, Dart, USA Truck revamp pay packages.
• 5 APPS FOR THAT Stream your favorite shows in the cab.