Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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CONTENTS January 2018 | Vol. 58 | No. 1 January 2018 | Overdrive | 1 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. 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Neal Awards, including 2014 Grand Neal Award VOICES 2 ELD enforcement gets slow, rocky start. 3 Pulse: Chasing greener pas- tures. 4 Closing the case of the ELD-loving "bot." 6 What if everyone's lives mir- rored trucking? 8 Female trucker says ELDs aren't answer to safety. LOGBOOK 12 Bill would expand young driver program. 12 Army veteran trucker wins new Kenworth T680. 13 OOIDA, DOT fight over sleep apnea. 14 Further delay of livestockers' ELD compliance sought. 18 Short-term rental trucks land ELD exemption. CUSTOM RIGS 35 '78 KW becomes patriotic hot rod. 36 Next-gen owner-op's '84 Pete. 38 Keeping '09 W900 in the family. 39 Reader Rigs: '85 K100 a hardworking COE; whiteout '98 W900; wax on, wax off for '14 T800. A TRIBUTE TO RJ | RJ Taylor, who passed last month at age 75, and his 1950s Kenworth were fixtures at trucking shows. Page 8. DEPARTMENTS Cover design by Kenneth Stubbs 41 EQUIPMENT SPOTLIGHT Drive tires. 44 GEAR GUIDE Tires, straps, lights, more. 47 FLEET NEWS CFI paying extra for experience. 56 BETTER HEALTH Don't dismiss weak circulation. 20 Business: All systems go for trucking in '18 Bullish forecasts for the trucking market during much of 2017 continued through yearend. That strength is expected to continue into 2018, with projected higher rates and tighter capacity. 22 COVER STORY: The coming of blockchain Carriers, manufacturers and other trucking players are flocking to an emerging "distributed ledger" approach to online business. Here's how it could affect owner-operators. 26 Caught in the middle When you're ill far from home, finding a local doc often isn't practical, and getting sicker doesn't cut it. Now there are better remedies for remote care. 30 Diversions New "Black Out" model sales help support vets; supporting "Cargo" is what truckers do best; truckers compete for Super Bowl tickets, other perks. 32 'Money-making motor home' Though costly, custom sleepers make a relentless OTR lifestyle much more tolerable.