Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info
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2 | Overdrive | May 2017 May 2017 | Vol. 57 | No. 5 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Equipment Editor: Jason Cannon Senior Editor: Todd Dills Managing Editor: Dean Smallwood News Editor: James Jaillet 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 Vice President of Sales, Trucking Media: Brad Holthaus 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: Mike Reilly President/CEO: Brent Reilly Chief Operating Officer: Shane Elmore Chief Financial Officer: Russell McEwen 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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LOGBOOK 14 OOIDA takes ELD case to Supreme Court. 15 Swift-Knight merger cre- ates 30,000-truck fleet. 16 Court upholds Crete's apnea testing policy. 19 Many concerns at autono- mous truck hearing. 26 CFI driver named Overdrive's Most Beautiful. CUSTOM RIGS 48 Antique Chevy Loadmaster comes back to life. 50 Reader Rigs: '01 379 living in style; '96 379 rockin' a flattop; '17 W900 a trib- ute to father; '16 389 into extreme recovery; '07 379 goes coast to coast. 52 '87 Pete has original motor with less than 200K miles. 30 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-Operator of the Year contest, produced by Overdrive and the Truckload Carriers Association. 34 New VNR a response to evolving regional market Volvo Trucks North America has a new addition to its VN Series: the VN R, a regional-haul tractor that will succeed the VN M at yearend. 36 International debuts regional-haul tractor International Truck's new R H Series tractor replaces the ProStar 113-inch B BC model and the TranStar 107. 38 Better blades Over recent years, wiper blades have seen one basic change and the addition of some special features. 42 Diversions Book spotlights essential nature of trucking Down Under; rise to the occasion for better health; new doc presses issues of failing infrastructure. 28 BUSINESS Rethink 'Say no to cheap freight.' 54 GEAR GUIDE Driveshaft, torque rod, sunglasses, more. 60 FLEET NEWS Bay & Bay, Dart, USA Truck revamp pay packages. 72 5 APPS FOR THAT Stream your favorite shows in the cab. STARSTRUCK: Wendy Parker's meeting with a famous coun- try singer brings her to tears. Page 10. DEPARTMENTS Cover photo by Sarah Petersen