Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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2 | Overdrive | February 2018 February 2018 | Vol. 58 | No. 2 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Equipment Editor: Jason Cannon Senior Editor: Todd Dills Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood News Editor: James Jaillet Video Editor: Andrew Guinn 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 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 Emeritus: Mike Reilly President/CEO: Brent Reilly Chief Operating Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Financial Officer: Kim Fieldbinder 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. 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Neal Awards, including 2014 Grand Neal Award VOICES 4 ELD shutdowns: Protests and practicality. 5 Pulse: Tax reform yields owner-operator tax cut. 6 Poll respondents split on 2018 outlook. 8 Wendy Parker wants some things to go away in 2018. 12 "Wes Memphis" gets past paper logs' phantom limb. LOGBOOK 14 Two drivers persist in PSP report challenge. 14 Pot remains off limits to truck drivers. 16 Swift IT worker pleads guilty to theft. 18 "Highway Justice" pair tack- les human trafficking. 19 Fleet to pay driver $54,000 to settle lawsuit. CUSTOM RIGS 39 Cabover still a work in prog- ress. 40 Trucker's antique W9 restoration project. 42 "Mistress" demands owner's downtime. 43 Reader Rigs: Two '96 Western Stars, "Ol' Blackie" and Down Under hauler. TRUCKING LEADER'S LEGACY | Readers pay tribute to Jim Johnston, left, OOIDA's president, CEO and founding member, who died last month at 78. Page 10. DEPARTMENTS Cover: Racchpal Singh Dhillon, photographed by Jenna Ruiz. 45 GEAR GUIDE Cable wrap, floor mat, air disc brakes, more. 48 FLEET NEWS Maverick raises pay for flatbed, glass haulers. 56 BETTER HEALTH Trucking lifestyle can lead to headaches. 24 Business: Expanded bonus depreciation Under the tax overhaul enacted in late December, owner-operators will be able to claim bonus depreciation on purchases of used trucks and trailers. Prior tax law allowed bonus depreciation only for new equipment purchases. 26 ELD mandate meets reality Questions swirl as e-logging magnifies problems with strict hours enforcement. Uniform answers are harder to come by. 30 Cover story: Into the limelight Though there are tens of thousands of Sikhs in trucking, traditional American truckers have little information and a lot of misconceptions about them. But their strong ELD activism has helped build bridges with their non-Sikh counterparts. 34 $25,000 awaits top owner-operator Philip Keith, Kevin Kocmich and Bryan Smith are finalists for the 2017 Owner- Operator of the Year award, produced by the Truckload Carriers Association and Overdrive. 36 Equipment Spotlight: Coolants Learn about formulations and specifications for a wide variety of cooling system products from 13 manufacturers.