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VOICES 12 | Overdrive | July 2017 Near the end of the latest clip from the Lexview wind- shield-mounted camera in the 1999 Kenworth W900 of Howard Salmon, he witnesses an oncoming pickup driver turn into a highway off -ramp as if it were an on-ramp. Catch his video of the senior moment or plain old idiot move via Dashcam Central, where you also can upload your own clips: OverdriveOnline.com/dashcamcentral. Oops, wrong way! Don't 'get beat up' on rates | While it's probably more common from bro- kers in the spot market when rates turn for the worse, shippers can batter you over rates, too, with competitors coming in and attempting to undercut the contract. Ohio-based small fl eet owner Monte Wiederhold, trucking in a 2000 Western Star, has deployed various methods with customers through the recent "ebb and fl ow" years of up-and-down transport demand in the wider economy with his mostly fl atbed owner-operators. Direct shippers have formed the solid core of his business. An emphasis on timely communication and depend- ability has helped immensely to keep them around. Poor health is a preventable accident | There is no more prescient business topic than personal health, as CargoMax-leased owner-operator Dean Carnahan would have it. Without your life, your business can't even be an afterthought. Trouble is, as Carnahan well knows, taking control of your diet isn't always a simple thing to do out on the road. Truck stop options often are too limited to high-calorie high-sugar junk or fast food. He's hopeful that getting more drivers to take a proactive role in healthy eating can spur a movement to change the status quo in that regard. Clawing back from identity theft | It's an increas- ingly common occurrence in today's world of rapid-fi re information and relative ease of digital impersonation: identity theft. A few years back, owner-operator Scott Reed was surprisingly denied on a simple credit application. Later he was pulled over while trucking and notifi ed that there were warrants for his arrest in places he'd not been in years. That's when he realized the reality of what had happened to his credit (previously in the 700s, a good credit score). His is a cautionary tale of the consequences this crime can have on your personal and business credit rating. Reed continues fi ghting to rectify the damage done to his name by a still-undetermined individual far west of his Ohio home. Scan the codes to listen to these recent Overdrive Radio podcasts. Or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, TuneIn or other service, or visit OverdriveOnline.com/OverdriveRadio to feed through another app or listen online. Shipper-direct freight, health overhaul, identity theft

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• COVER STORY: Jump start The electrified truck concept has taken on a real life, with players large and small vying for future shares of the Class 8 market. It’s not only large fleets that are placing orders.
• Presenting logs at roadside Running with an e-logs device is one thing. Communicating e-log data to an inspector is quite another. With five months to go, states’ data transfer plans vary widely, and an ambitious federal program remains untested.
• Broker ratings Not only have the internet and mobile technology made finding loads quicker and easier than ever, those same resources also can provide more in-depth, current information on broker performance.
• Drive Test: Best of both worlds Volvo’s regional workhorse tractor, the VNM, having been on the market for more than two decades, was overdue for a refresh. But Volvo designers did much more than modernize its body lines in producing th
• Options few after ELD challenge stalls.
• Pulse: “The real problem” with ELDs.
• Another reason shippers should deal direct.
• Reader majority opposes hair-sample testing.
• Obama-era contractor status memo rescinded.
• Trucker Talent Search finalists headed for Dallas.
• FMCSA study to assess split sleeper options.
• GATS to showcase free music and famous trucks.
• “Service and sacrifice” ’88 Freightliner COE.
• Owner-operator’s self-built “RisslerBilt” 379.
• “88 Mike” Morgan earns first Bandit Series win.
• Reader Rigs: ’13 T800 a stainless dream; ’90 K100 a farming COE; salute “The General” ’17 W900L Icon; ’96 W900L pretty in pink; respect “Big Tex” ’15 122SD; ’02 W900L goes by “Black Betty.”
• BUSINESS Log data might not cover IFTA, IRP.
• Gear Guide All-position tire, mudflap, locks, more.
• FLEET NEWS Decker’s Driver of the Year gets Harley.
• 5 APPS FOR THAT Podcast players for on-the-road listening.
• TWO-BUCK TRUCKERS Wendy Parker backs a driver’s plan to highlight trucking issues and show the general public how much the industry contributes to the economy.