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February 2012

Overdrive Magazine | Trucking Business News & Owner Operator Info

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ONLINE Need a permit? Tap away The Trucker Tools app allows drivers to submit details for obtaining permits, tags, state and interstate authority, DOT compliance information and bookkeeping services. After you send your name, email and phone number, service companies will contact you within 24 hours. The app also offers easy access to locations of truck stops, scales and rest areas and to a load board with 50,000 new loads per day, Truck Stop Coupons and a message board. The app was created by Overdrive publisher Randall-Reilly Business Media and Information. Android iPhone Scan the QR code with your smartphone to download Trucker Tools. For Blackberry users, search "Trucker Tools" in the App World. Do it yourself: tractor maintenance Get the preventive maintenance help you need with the How to: Basic Tractor Maintenance, Vol. 1 digital book. Overdrive Equipment Editor John Baxter wrote each of the 12 one-page guides, which feature basic sequential steps, photo illustrations and tool lists. The e-book costs $7.95 and is avail- able at eTrucker.com/store under Owner-Operator/Driver Products. Advice for body and soul Truckers News, Overdrive's sister magazine, offers daily health tips, a body mass index calculator and weekly posts on eating healthy food and exercising on the road at truckersnews.com/ fit-for-the-road. Subscribe to its free Fit for the Road Newsletter and you can get health pointers and inspiration emailed every morning. Scan the QR code to subscribe. www.overdriveonline.com Toll Free: (800) 633-5953 Editorial Fax: (205) 750-8070 Sales Fax: (205) 349-6359 or Email: lmagner@rrpub.com Radio Fax: (205) 345-5695 or Email: ddavis@rrpub.com EDITORIAL Editorial Director: Max Heine Executive Editor: Jack Roberts Senior Editors: Todd Dills, Max Kvidera Equipment Editor: John Baxter Managing Editor: Lucinda Coulter Associate Editor: James Jaillet Contributing Editors: Jill Dunn, Paul Hartley, Carolyn Magner, Bruce Smith Executive Director, Research & Analysis: Avery Vise Manager, e-media editorial: Marlin Caddell DESIGN & PRODUCTION Art Director: Kenneth Stubbs Production Designer: David Watson Senior Media Manager: Patti Clark Senior Production Director: Mary Springer BUSINESS VP, Trucking Sales: Brad Holthaus VP, Trucking Media Operations: Stacy McCants VP, Events: Alan Sims Executive Director of Sales: Chip Magner Account Executives: Rusty Barton, Tommy Belk, Richard Hinton, Brent Hutto, Steve Miller, Casey Sears, David Wilkinson Director of Media Operations: Emily Larson Marketing Manager: Cameron Kizzire Director of Interactive Marketing: Kyle Jernigan Media Controller: Terry Browning Circulation: Julie Puckett, Kelli Kitchens CORPORATE Chairman, CEO: Mike Reilly President: Brent Reilly Chief Administrative Officer: David Wright Chief Process Officer: Shane Elmore Senior VP, Trucking: Jeff Mason 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. Single copies are available for $6 US, $9 Canada/Mexico, and $12 foreign. Overdrive (ISSN 0030-7394) is published monthly and is a registered trademark of its publisher, Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. LLC., 3200 Rice Mine Road N.E., Tuscaloosa, AL 35406. Periodicals postage-paid at Tuscaloosa, AL, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTERS: Send address corrections to Overdrive, P.O. Box 2189, Skokie, IL 60076-9951. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission is prohibited. Copyright (c) 2011 Randall-Reilly Publishing Co. LLC. 2 OVERDRIVE FEBRUARY 2012 Senior VP, Editorial & Research: Linda Longton Senior VP, Acquisitions & Business Develop- ment: Robert Lake VP, Interactive Media: Jim Davis EDITORIAL HONORS Only trucking magazine to win five Editorial Excellence Awards ® 3200 Rice Mine Road N.E., Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 www.randallreilly.com In Memoriam: H. Pettus Randall II (1911-1976) - Founder H. Pettus Randall III (1945-2002) - Chairman Four-time Magazine of the Year finalist plus 56 other awards. Five Jesse H. Neal Certificates of Merit

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