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Here's hoping the Memorial Day long weekend's been a safe one for you. Today on the Overdrive Radio podcast, a special treat in the work of our own longtime Overdrive Extra contributor Long Haul Paul Marhoefer: https://overdriveonline.com/14865330 Marhoefer spent time at the Mid-America Trucking Show with a man who's been well on his way toward a status of custom-truck royalty, you might say, these last several years. His name is Tim Eacret, proprietor of Iowa-headquartered EZ Pete Interiors, a custom truck upholstery business whose legacy stretches back in history to the work of Eacret's father, Daniel Laverne Eacret, and his own early and long auto-upholstery work. Sadly, Daniel passed in 2023, and Eacret honors his memory in the conversation with Marhoefer that follows here, detailing the big custom build that really got the dedicated truck upholsterer's business going full bore dedicated to custom rigs. Find EZ Pete Interiors here: http://ezpete.com/ More, too, in Long Haul Paul's story about Tim and his wife and business partner, Tricia: https://overdriveonline.com/15746914 As mentioned in the podcast: **T.J. Kounkel's project 2018 389: https://www.overdriveonline.com/pride-polish/article/14897010/2019-gats-best-of-show-limited-mileage-combo-the-joker-gets-last-laugh **Marhoefer's story about the legacy of Scot Marone, longtime organizer of the Wheel Jam Truck Show coming up soon: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15745088/the-wheel-jam-truck-show-staying-alive-with-the-village **Tales of two lease-purchases: https://www.overdriveonline.com/equipment/article/15738011/a-tale-of-two-leasepurchase-experiences-truck-ownership-exit

A House subcommittee covered some of the biggest issues in trucking, from truck parking and increased size and weight to AEBs and overtime. Also, trucking singer Long Haul Paul is back with another road-related tune. Then, cargo theft continues to torment trucking. We'll explain what you can do to ensure your safety and avoid theft claims. And we're heading back to a normal freight market, with load availability up last week. 0:00 – Parking, AEBs, other trucking issues top hearing 10:01– Singer offers up another trucking tune 24:27 – What you need to know about cargo theft 39:25 – Heading toward a normal freight market

What's behind the recent freight boom at the southern border that's being led by computer-related freight coming from Mexico? We'll explain. Also, trucker and singer Long Haul Paul has released a new trucking song, “Four Million Miles Deep.” We'll talk with him about that and more. And the cargo theft problem shows no sign of slowing anytime soon – and to make matters worse, criminals seem to changing methods and cargo. 0:00 – Newscast 09:46 – What's behind this freight boom? 24:24 – A trucking troubadour releases another song 39:23 – Cargo thieves are changing it up

Nine states are taking a long, hard look at their fuel taxes, and several that have had regular increases may slow that process down. Also, trucking singer Long Haul Paul – a longtime trucker and OOIDA member – has come out with a new song about another trucker's life. And a lot of questions around insurance can pop up when you lease on to a motor carrier. We'll go over some of the considerations. 0:00 – Newscast 09:46 – Trucker and singer releases a new song 24:24 – Insurance considerations when you lease on 39:23 – Nine states eye changes to their fuel tax

580. Part 1 of our interview with Matthew Teutsch about his article, "Blood in the Pool: The 1868 Bossier Massacre."  "Violent, racist attacks didn't just occur in Bossier. They occurred across the Red River in Caddo Parish and all throughout the Red River Valley. Gilles Vandal notes that during Reconstruction 45% of the murders in Louisiana were concentrated in the northwestern part of the state. Caddo accounted for 16% of the homicides even though it only accounted for 3% of the state's population. People may have tried to cleanse the soil of the blood, but the blood remains deep within the earth." "Matthew Teutsch is the Director of the Lillian E. Smith Center at Piedmont College. He maintains Interminable Rambling, a blog on literature, culture, and pedagogy,  and has published articles and book reviews in various venues including Lear, Melus, Mississippi Quarterly, African American Review and Callaloo. His research focus is African American, Southern, and Nineteenth Century American literature. He is the editor of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (UPM 2020), and his current project examines Christopher Priest's run on Black Panther. Follow him on Twitter at @SilasLapham." Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 220 years. Order your copy today! This week in Louisiana history. June 30, 1870. Robert E. Lee and the Natchez began their famous riverboat race. This week in New Orleans history. On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey reached peak sustained winds of 145 mph, making it a major hurricane.   Without decreasing windspeed, it made landfall between the mouth of the Sabine River and Cameron, Louisiana the following day. Damage in Louisiana resulted in 60-80 percent of the homes and businesses from Cameron to Grand Cheniere being severely damaged or destroyed. Audrey killed at least 416 people, the majority of which were in Cameron Parish.  40,000 people were left homeless, over 300 homeless in Louisiana. This week in Louisiana. Tunes on the Teche 4th of July Breaux Bridge St. Bernard Catholic Church 204 North Main Street Breaux Bridge, LA 70517 Website Live Music with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys on the Bayou Teche at Parc des Point in Breaux Bridge for the 4th of July Celebration!  Thursday July 4th at 6:00 PM!  A family-friendly and free night of music, food, drinks, and fireworks on the banks of the Bayou Teche. Postcards from Louisiana. Long Haul Paul. "Mercy Now." Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on audible. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. Listen on iHeartRadio. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

Independent owner-operator Debbie Desiderato, long hauling with her authority as Walkabout Transport, probably needs no introduction to regular Overdrive readers. Her insight around customer relationships and so much more has featured in Overdrive multiple times through the years, and last year she was one of our Truckers of the Month in the Trucker of the Year program: https://www.overdriveonline.com/15541324 At the top of the podcast, Desiderato describes the seven years that have elapsed since she first met photographer/author Anne-Marie Michel. The owner-operator's one of 40 female truck drivers and owner-operators in America interviewed for the Britain-based Michel's “Sisters of the Road” book. Long in the making, as owner-operator Desiderato made clear, yet it's been out a couple of years now, and making something of a splash around the country right now with a photo-exhibit trailer being pulled behind Desiderato's Western Star. She's run with the exhibit clear across the country from an origin point in San Francisco to start Women's History Month on the way to the Mid-American Trucking Show, coming up here shortly, March 21-23 in Louisville, Kentucky. Preview MATS happenings, and access coverage in the aftermath, via this collection: https://www.overdriveonline.com/t/4372607 Overdrive Radio spoke with Debbie about the experience thus far on the tour, which to date has offered up no shortage of opportunity to school the uninitiated on the ins and outs, the struggles and triumphs, of truck drivers of all stripes. Plenty share-the-road talk, too. "The blind spots," Desiderato offered. "and how I've got a hood on this truck. They can see now if they're by my passenger steer tire how I couldn't see them if they're driving a small car. They got a big education." She was referring mostly to 100s of international and otherwise trucking-uninitiated attendees of FotoFest in Houston, where her Western Star was parked up with the exhibit trailer for plenty public interaction through Wednesday, March 13, this week. She's due to arrive in Louisville March 18 for MATS, with stops along the way in Arkansas at Uber Freight headquarters and Saturday, March 16, at the Idella Hansen Petro in Little Rock. All in all, she notes, the tour and her inclusion in the "Sisters of the Road" book has been an opportunity to sit right at the intersection between the business and work of trucking, and the wider U.S. and world cultures. Read more about "Sisters of the Road" via Long Haul Paul's 2022 review of the book: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15296897/iconographic-fiercely-resilient-portraits-sisters-of-the-road Also in the podcast: Owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt detail recent similar share-the-road opportunities the pair of founding members of CDL Drivers Unlimited got with the entire Mudflap app staff. Revisit recent talks with the Schmitts about CDLDU's Driver Advocacy Network at this link: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio/podcast/15665521/truckers-new-chance-at-affordable-health-insurance

For episode 50 of Voice Of GO(r)D I am honored to bring you the one and only Long Haul Paul - singer, songwriter, trucker, and writer at Overdrive Magazine. Paul and I have been buddies for a couple of years now, and I've been meaning to get him on for awhile - what better way to celebrate 50 episodes of this show than with a fellow “trucker of letters”? If you haven't heard Paul on the wonderful ‘Over The Road' podcast series, as soon as you are done here go and download the whole thing, it is a fantastic piece of oral history and storytelling, an extremely thoughtful examination of life on the road and the lives of those whom truckers leave behind. https://open.spotify.com/show/1tFsufQt7TXR01JmSutk3r?si=cc739dd2a6534ba8 You can read or connect with Over The Road at their excellent website https://www.overtheroad.fm/ Paul interviewed me for Overdrive Magazine early last year - https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15289327/faces-of-the-road-gord-magill You can find a full list of Paul's writings at Overdrive here - https://www.overdriveonline.com/authors/contact/14865330/long-haul-paul You can check out all of Paul's music and various projects at his own website, where you can also buy his tunes. https://www.longhaulpaulmusic.com/ Paul's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@longhaulpaulmusic4028 I mentioned in the intro that this show is syndicated Down Under with On The Road Radio, the 24/7 streaming show project of my mates Mike Williams and Yogi Kendall. You can download their app and listen here - https://ontheroadradio.com.au/ And you can check out Truckin' Life Magazine, which they have recently acquired and resuscitated - https://truckinlife.net.au/ As always, questions, comments, suggestions and Hate Mail are welcomed and strongly encouraged - gordilocks@protonmail.com Don't forget to check out my writings at Substack, where you can also have this show delivered directly to your inbox - https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/ Thanks for listening, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Truck show platform personalities come and go, but Hope Zvara's mission to improve truckers' quality of life with a program that leans on small, incremental changes in their daily routines continues to gain traction. Founder and CEO of Mother Trucker Yoga, Zvara's the author of "Trucking Yoga: Simple Fitness for fhe Long Haul," a book in which Zvara gives us an unvarnished account of how her own struggles with addiction and depression drove a personal need to get healthy. "I've struggled with depression and anxiety on catastrophic levels," she said. "Yoga, and movement, saved my life." Included in the book, too, is a regimen of down to earth, practical yoga exercises adapted to the ergonomics of a semi-tractor. At the Mid-America Trucking Show, as you can see in the thumbnail image for today's edition of Overdrive Radio above, she led our own Long Haul Paul through a few of them. And in Paul and Zvara's talk here, she offers answers to these questions relative to notions of a mental-health crisis all around the nation. "What if it's not a mental health crisis?" she said." What if it's a movement crisis?" Find more about Zvara's tools for OTR drivers via her website: https://www.mothertruckeryoga.com/ Also in the podcast: An audio diary from owner-operator Mike "Mustang" Crawford, who poses his own answers to what was a pressing question no doubt for some during this week of the CVSA's annual Roadcheck inspection event: Is it possible to get through the entire blitz week without passing an open scale? After Overdrive editor Todd Dills talked to the longtime flatbedder last week, his plans to spend much of the May 16-18 event at home in Long Lane, Missouri, changed. He finished what he needed to do at home early and the freight called him out. After he passed two closed scales early Tuesday, the first day of the blitz, on his way toward Chicago from the Springfield, Missouri, area, he started calling in with reports from the road. Three days later in Florida, then .... And: On the diet side of the health/quality-of-life equation, at MATS the CDL Drivers Unlimited group hosted family-practice physician Ken Berry, who spoke to principles of what he sees as the PHD, or “Proper Human Diet,” akin in some ways to a Keto high-fat, very-low-carb diet. Trucker and CDLDU founding driver council member Scott Reed introduced Berry at MATS with some detail of his own experience with the diet. Reed's dropped well more than 100 pounds over the course of a year into it. Find CDL Drivers Unlimited via this link: https://www.cdldu.com/ More from Overdrive Radio on the world-famous http://OverdriveOnline.com

In today's show, we'll talk about how the trucking industry was a hot topic at the State of the Union address, we'll talk about how this futuristic trucking world isn't working out quite as expected, the FMCSA is staying busy receiving and rejecting exemption requests, I'll tell you about a new restaurant chain at TA truck stops, and I'll point you to a funny article written in a style you used to get here. In the listener feedback segment, we'll talk weigh station apps, worn out tires, how “best trucking fleet” criteria works, and I'll point you to another trucking podcast I listened to recently that was recommended by a listener. And after much guilt-driven goading, I finally talk a listener into submitting a Trucker Grub segment. Well… sort of. Stay tuned. Introduction Links: Get the Trucking Ebook Combo Pack for 50% off for a limited time! Only $9.99 for two books (including a 9.25 hour audiobook version of Trucking Life)! Need a list of questions to ask the next time you're looking for your next truck driving job? Well here it is! And it's only $1.99! Please consider using my Amazon Affiliate link for your everyday shopping. Amazon will pay me a small commission for everything you buy. All you have to do is click on the ebook link on this page and then shop as you normally would. Thanks! You can also donate directly by clicking the Donate button on this page. The Newsworthy podcast is my preferred way to get my news in about 10 minutes per day. News Links: Perspective: State of the Union Highlights Trucking from ttnews.com (Transport Topics) ATA President: California should not set nation's emissions standards from TheTrucker.com Can charging infrastructure keep pace with EV demand? from FreightWaves.com Nikola says it may run out of money in next 12 months from FreightWaves.com Reports: Autonomous platooning startup Locomation closing its doors from FreightWaves.com Why FMCSA keeps revoking ELDs, and how to tell if yours is next from OverdriveOnline.com FMCSA rejects another HOS exemption, as split-sleeper flexibility sought from OverdriveOnline.com Submit your comments on the 5/5 split sleeper berth Brake light manufacturer and fleets seek factory-level exemption from ccjdigital.com (Commercial Carrier Journal) Trucking company wants to use learner's permit holders for apprentice program from LandLine.media Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program from FMCSA.dot.gov Lane splitting rules pursued in multiple statehouses from LandLine.media TA debuts new full-service restaurant concept ‘Fork & Compass' at Ohio truck stop from CDLLife.com Fork & Compass menu 'We don't give directions' -- how GPS is changing our social selves from OverdriveOnline.com Over the Road: an 8-episode podcast by Long Haul Paul and PRX Trucker Grub Links: JD Campbell's in Peoria, AZ (Phoenix area) Listener Feedback Links: Best Fleets To Drive For's Hall of Fame criteria PDF submitted by Cici Trucking for Millennials Podcast recommended by David Taylor Show Info: You can email your comments, suggestions, questions, or insults to TruckerDump@gmail.com Join the Trucker Dump Podcast Facebook Group Join the Trucker Dump Slack Group by emailing me at TruckerDump@gmail.com Got a second to Rate and/or Review the podcast on iTunes? Download the intro/outro songs for free! courtesy of Walking On Einstein

We've got a bit of a special edition of Overdrive Radio for you this week. There's a guest host of sorts, who's going to walk us through a conversation with Chace Barber, cofounder of Edison Motors. If Barber's name sounds familiar, you may have read Overdrive Executive Editor Alex Lockie's reporting of some of what Barber's been doing with a diesel-electric concept that's similar to the way locomotive work. The system features effectively an on-board diesel generator serving only to charge in this case a lithium ion battery powering an electric motor capable of monster loads of both horsepower and torque. In the case of Barber and company's prototype, that's all inside a beautiful and beautifully tough old 1969 Kenworth they call, simply, Old Blue. Log hauler, writer, and podcaster Gord Magill recently drew out more of Chace Barber's company's origin story and plenty about just where his electric-drive trucks stand to be best applied in his Voice of GO(R)D podcast. Gord's roots, like Chache Barber's, are in Canada, though Magill now calls the United States home, as our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer wrote in his Faces of the Road series talk with Magill: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15289327/faces-of-the-road-gord-magill As noted, Barber's Edison Motors has been making a name for itself by taking advantage of big strides in battery technology to repurpose something of an old general concept for new application, with big potential. It's not exactly a hybrid diesel-electric in the manner of much of the hybrid technology in cars today, as he told Magill, and over-the-road trucking benefits are decidedly less than more intense applications like log hauling. Yet OTR could benefit in form of fuel savings to the tune of a potential 5-10 percent or more. There's some perhaps non-obvious benefits, too -- think things that might fall into the "weird government" classification Magill mentions in the podcast (electric-drive trucks ELD/road tax-exempt?) -- spelled out the podcast. Find the full two-hour conversation in the Voice of GO(R)D podcast via this link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01IBVRZ1pokC94ZXvguJfR Here on Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/voice-of-go-r-d/episode/old-trucks-new-tech-how-a-b-c-logger-is-making-electric-trucks-less-cringe-211086897 Here on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/voice-of-go-r-d/id1663362014 Magill's writing, featured elsewhere in outlets like Newsweek among many others, is also accessible via his Substack page at this link: https://autonomoustruckers.substack.com/ Alex Lockie's reporting on Barber and his Edison Motors cofounder Eric Little: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15301066/loghauling-truckings-toughest-niche

With customary Overdrive Radio host Todd Dills out at the conference of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies' annual conference today in Nashville, he turns the mic over to contributor, trucker and songwriter Long Haul Paul Marhoefer, who will introduce a trucking-radio personality you may or may not have heard of before who Paul feels is bringing something of a sense of wonder back to trucking radio That'd be none other than Jimmy Mac, host of Dave Nemo Weekends on the Sirius XM Road Dog channel 146. If you've never heard Mac, his show aims to truck drivers in the manner of, as Marhoefer put it, talk radio of say "the mid-20th century," long before the "rock-throwing contest began," as it were. "WGN's Milt Rosenberg from Chicago comes to mind, or maybe Barry Farber of WOR, in New York." Jimmy Mac, for Long Haul Paul tuning in from the truck operator's seat from a highway somewhere, "was was speaking with us, and he was speaking as if we were actual adults." That's a pretty good description of the kind of truly engrossing, entertaining and enlightening talk Jimmy Mac's doing. Listeners are sure to get something out of Long Haul Paul's talk with Mac here. Consider it part of Marhoefer's Faces of the Road series of oral histories he's been chronicling now for years, featuring individual truck owners and drivers, personalities associated with trucking in music and much more. Find all Faces of the Road installments via this link: https://www.overdriveonline.com/t/4404196 Also in the podcast. Here's a big congrats to the final four among Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ contenders who competed last night in two categories. Coming out on top were, in the 11-30-truck division, 19-truck Louisiana-headquartered John McGee Trucking, hauling mostly tankers and serving oilfield customers in the wide oil-rich region around the home base: https://www.overdriveonline.com/small-fleet-champ/article/15295593/john-mcgee-trucking-embraces-golden-rule-toward-steady-growth Then in the 3-10 truck category, hailing from Sanford, Florida, was 5-truck CAP Trucking, the small fleet of LTL Reefer specialist Chris Porricelli, who brought home the title belt there: https://www.overdriveonline.com/small-fleet-champ/article/15296127/cap-trucking-refocuses-asset-business-in-ltl-reefer

Today we hand it off again to "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer to walk us through the moving, sometimes hilarious, writing of trucker-songwriter Coby Langham & the Citizen Band, whose 2019 “Years on the Road” record made plenty waves around his native Kentucky and beyond. Langham drives for likewise Kentucky-headquartered Downey & Sons, a pallet supplier out of Springfield, and he's a proud father of three. Hear more of Langham's music via this link: https://open.spotify.com/album/3c5Vvtgk1sEhmGYgRxOaN0?si=FUHOKkIjRG-lBsnruRh4-g&nd=1 Also in the podcast, Overdrive Executive Editor Alex Lockie's interview of Arien Ruell around his beautiful 800-horsepower, 1993 vintage Peterbilt 379, with a spectacular 80s-built sleeper and custom stretch that hauls mostly overweight, sometimes oversize, loads out of Pennsylvania to points west and South. Lockie caught up with owner-operator Ruell at the GearJammer show two weeks back in New Hampshire. It's a special truck, for Ruell something of a monument to relationships forged through history in and around and under the machine. Catch more views of it in Lockie's story about it here: https://www.overdriveonline.com/custom-rigs/article/15295340/800horse-93-peterbilt-ten-dimes-with-ownerop-arien-ruell As you'll hear in the episode, it turned out to be a special day for Ruell, too.

In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, we'll drop into an interview Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole conducted with Arrive Logistics Chief Strategy Officer J-Ann Tio, about the broker-3PL's “We Deliver Flexibility” program. The trial run for the program is getting its footing as a connection engine between independent owner-operators and small fleets in Arrive's network and larger private fleets the company also does business with. The Arrive program, as Tio notes, hopes to alleviate issues on both sides of the coin, for owner-operators enduring the deflationary rates environment in the spot market and for private fleets needing safe and professional capacity. It could well be a way into new opportunities for owners both inside and out of Arrive's network, as Tio describes it, in fact -- a chance to develop new contracts for freight with large clients that might typically not have much of an interest doing direct business with smaller fleets. There's more in today's episode, though, too. If you've missed it as yet, hear our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's moving eulogy for Ken “Shoestring” Waugh, part of Overdrive's "Over the Road" collaboration with PRX's Radiotopia podcast network. And: Catch the latest from trucker-songwriter extraordinaire Tony Justice. Justice delivered a $33,000-plus check to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer awareness and research this Monday in Nashville. After that presentation out front of the Country Music Hall of Fame, we sat with Justice and his wife, Misty, to hear about the haul raised by the well more than 100 owner-operators, small fleet owners, show vendors and more who participated in the first-ever Large Cars and Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee, back in May. And there's a bonus in that conversation, too: Team Justice has big things planned for the new year, with a newly-custom-wrapped 2002 Prevost they've started using for their music work. And, no, contrary to any road rumors you may have heard, Justice hasn't yet hung up the keys the rig he pilots for Everhart Transportation out of Greeneville, Tennessee. Explore the Arrive Logistics "We Deliver Flexibility" effort via this link: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15294095/new-program-connecting-ownerops-private-fleets Hear more from past episodes in the Over the Road podcast series: https://www.overdriveonline.com/t/4405867

Dayton, Ohio-based Airgas tank-truck operator Guy Archer has come out of his big win in 2021's Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search with renewed energy around his songwriting efforts -- he's been much more than tinkering around the edges of those efforts with some recording activity this year we'll hear him detail in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, dropping in on Archer's tour of a variety of songwriter stages at the Mid-America Trucking Show this past March. There, Archer delighted crowds who showed out to see our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer, among others, and Archer enjoyed a featured performance at the big Red Eye Radio stage in the main lobby, where he opened with, what else, his Talent Search-winning "Heavy Load" original. The tour around MATS followed an invite to the RoadPro Brands dinner there, which spurred him to make the decision to trek to Louisville for his first time at the show in more than 20 years. In the podcast, hear a talk with him through his recent recordings of originals "The Long Way Around" and "In the Dust," as well as his four-song effort on the Red Eye stage at MATS. Hope you enjoy. Hear more from his Nashville recording session last year, part of the prize for his Talent-Search win: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio/podcast/15286237/trucker-talent-search-winner-guy-archer-live-from-studio-session At Archer's Youtube channel you can hear ongoing recording efforts: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYtaTEfE-wcfgHYNm2nj7A

Cliffside Transportation Services operator Bobby Coffey-Loy hauls in a team with his husband, Ricky, and in one of a couple dozen or so rigs Cliffside has dedicated to XPO Logistics freight in the network. In this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, Coffey-Loy speaks to the mission of his and cofounders' LGBTQ+ Truck Driver Network, established within the last year and engaged in a variety of support efforts for operators all around the nation: https://lgbtqtruckdrivernetwork.com/ Ricky and Bobby Coffey-Loy haul pharmaceuticals in a 2020 Volvo VNL outfitted with a 156-inch big-bunk ARI sleeper, not the only one in the fleet at Cliffside Transportation Services. Since getting acclimated to big-bunk trucking, Bobby's found the rig to be something of a literal life-changer. He's gone from 300-plus pounds down to around 240 in a fairly short time, with a focus on cooking for himself, as also detailed in the podcast. Here, sit on a conversation Overdrive had with Coffey-Loy at the 50th anniversary edition of the Mid-America Trucking Show last month, where the LGBTQ network made its truck-show debut to the delight of plenty at the Kentucky Exposition Center there. The West Wing booth's Mardi Gras beads were a hit – scads of folks were present on the show floor wearing them, likewise network lanyards for attendee badges you'll hear Coffey-Loy talk about. It's all part of a mission in part to increase LGBTQ+ visibility among the trucking community, but also to make good on its "All Drivers Means All" motto. To that end, too, Coffey-Loy details a program the network has embarked upon to honor drivers lost on the road with messages and other tokens of support delivered to their families. Since the MATS show, he said this morning, the network has been getting quite a number of people "wanting a loved one honored and recognized by the Driver Memorial Program. ... We honor all drivers with this program, LGBTQ or not." Also, more companies have stepped up to "become a part of the network we are creating and vetting ... as LGBTQ+-friendly places to work." The organization adds such companies to this page: https://lgbtqvetted.com/ Also in the podcast, we pause to remember an owner-operator lost. My own interaction with Randy Cunha through recent years wasn't extensive, by any means, but I'll say that when we spoke attendant to my reporting on heavy-specialized hauling in the Spring of 2020, just as Cunha was winding down his own business toward retirement, the man I spoke to then was clearly an incarnation of the very best in the business of trucking as an owner-operator. He'd become that after a career that spanned five decades and ended on a nice high note -- with a run of very good years under his own authority, heavy and oversize permits and all. In the podcast, catch much more about that directly from a man who knew him much better than me, our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15291259/remembering-heavyspecialized-owneroperator-randy-cunha

In today's edition of Overdrive Radio, trucker-songwriter and Overdrive Extra contributing writer "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer takes us through his interview at the Mid-America Trucking Show last month with longtime entertainment-industry-specialized trucker Chip Warterfield, now in a safety and operations role with Upstaging, Inc. Warterfield tells the story of what happened to the company when COVID in 2020 essentially brought every single one of its touring clients to an abrupt and complete halt. Warterfield also speaks of his own trucking beginnings back in the 1980s. If Warterfield's name sounds familiar, you may have caught his story of an early trucking mentor, Kenny Jones, the father of Barbara Mandrell's then steel guitar player, Mike Jones. Kenny spent his entire career trucking in some form or another and taught Warterfield perhaps more than he knew back at that time: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15290773/a-trucking-tribute-to-kenny-jones-invaluable-driving-mentor Read more from Marhoefer here: https://www.overdriveonline.com/authors/contact/14865330/long-haul-paul

In this episode, Tex talks with musician and semi-retired trucker, Long Haul Paul. They touch on Paul's early days that led him to drive a truck as well as finally working up to publicly performing his songs. You can find Paul at https://longhaulpaulmusic.com as well as on Facebook. His music can also be found on Spotify.We played 2 songs in this episode, “Thirty Weight Coffee” and “She Never Was Nothin”. Here's the music videos:Thirty Weight Coffee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xovHdThI7WMShe Never Was Nothin: https://fb.watch/cdmnYYZi87/The Big Road Podcast. Highlighting the people of the transportation Industry.

Greetings! It's been a while, but we're back with an update on the state of the trucking industry in 2021, and a taste of new projects from the Over the Road team: some music, another podcast, and a book. Long Haul Paul has released a new record called, “Cornbelt Cafe.” Find it wherever you stream and download music, or head over to LongHaulPaulMusic.com.  OTR producers Ian Coss and Lacy Roberts recently collaborated on a hybrid podcast/album about marriage, divorce, and the meaning of lifetime commitment. Listen and subscribe to Forever is a Long Time on Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your podcasts. And don't miss Shining Man, the novel recently published by OTR editor Todd Dills, from our production partner Overdrive Magazine. Can't say when we'll be back in the feed again, but stay safe and take care out there! Over the Road is a collaboration between Overdrive Magazine and PRX's Radiotopia. Learn more about the show at overtheroad.fm.

433. Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier joins us to discuss her new memoir, Saved by a Song. Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny's old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her a window to a world where others felt the way she did. Songs became lifelines to her, and she longed to write her own, one day. As an adult, she went to an open mic with a friend realized that she not only still wanted to write songs, she needed to. Today, Gauthier is a decorated musical artist, with numerous awards and recognition for her songwriting, including a Grammy nomination. This week in Louisiana history. September 5, 1814. Pierre Lafitte 'escapes' from prison in the Cabildo. Shortly after an alliance was formed between the government & the pirates to repel the British. This week in New Orleans history. The post-Katrina evacuation of the Superdome was completed on Sunday, September 4, 2005. The same day, 29,588 Army National Guard and 4,596 Air National Guard were deployed (34,184 total). This week in Louisiana. Louisiana Libations In Louisiana, we dine with gusto, but did you know we're also home to America's first cocktail - the Sazerac? In celebration of our cocktail culture, we've created a place for visitors to explore our Louisiana craft breweries, distilleries and wineries before planning your trip.  Our Louisiana libations are hand-crafted and infused with local ingredients to create flavor profiles you won't find anywhere else in the country.  Postcards from Louisiana. Long Haul Paul. "Mercy Now."Listen on iTunes.Listen on Google Play.Listen on Google Podcasts.Listen on Spotify.Listen on Stitcher.Listen on TuneIn.The Louisiana Anthology Home Page.Like us on Facebook.

Reverend Paul McKendrick has served as a pastor in Evans Head, and now works with Ministry and Mission. In this episode of Profiles in Christian Living, Mark Powell talks to Paul about what we are to think of the coming minister drought.

In this week's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, a little music and storytelling to take you through the weekend and into next, whether you're still off for Thanksgiving or on the road: **A tour through the Nashville session at Jay Vernali's Jay's Place studio on music row with our 2020 Trucker Talent Search winner, John Malayter. Hear the results of that session, as Malayter tells the stories behind four tracks any fan of folk-blues and bluegrass is likely to enjoy. The Jordan Carriers hauler, who lives in Rogersville, Tenn., picked up the guitar at a young age and learned to finger- and flat-pick, bluegrass-style, mostly self-taught, and has made music an integral part of his life for decades since. **Bluegrass pro Tina Adair talks through the June session that delivered the first single from a forthcoming, as yet untitled record, along with her performing and songwriting history in part with the Grammy-nominated and otherwise award-winning all-female bluegrass group Sister Sadie. Adair's music video for that single, a cover of trucking-song classic "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses," premiered here on Overdrive this past Tuesday. **"Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's "When a pandemic becomes personal," another intimate look at life between the road and home in this tragic year, read by the author. Read more about Malayter: https://www.overdriveonline.com/musician-switch-to-trucking-pays-the-bills/ Adair's "Eighteen Wheels" video: https://www.overdriveonline.com/video-18-wheels-and-a-dozen-roses-new-bluegrass-single-tina-adair/ Subscribe to Overdrive's daily newsletter for more trucking news, views and analysis geared to owner-operator businesses: http://overdriveonline.com/newsletter-signup

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On this tour of independent truck stops in Eastern Kentucky, Long Haul Paul investigates the enduring and alluring mystique of the “nanner nanner pudding,” and learns how each stop is keeping the lights on amidst the ever-expanding, seemingly ubiquitous national chains. Find a transcript for this episode and learn more about Over the Road at overtheroad.fm.

How is COVID-19 impacting truckers? Long Haul Paul offers a quick check-in and some initial observations from the road. You can read more from Paul in his essay, ‘We drive on’: A week in the pandemic, from truck stops, picks and drops, to home published in Overdrive magazine.

Wednesday night in Dallas, classic country star and gospel singer Leon Everette, with trucker-songwriter Bill Weaver, started us up with a sound-check of sorts that turned into an impromptu extended jam -- you'll hear some of that and more in this week's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast. (Paul Marhoefer, too.) And though the news has been dominated this week and the previous one by the hours of service, we sit down at GATS for a chat about history, training and more with Jay Thompson of Transportation Business Associates. He grew up in rural Indiana and starting his working career driving big trucks, a route taken by the generations of men in his family as well, all the way back to his grandfather, Walter Thompson. Walter had a chauffer's license at age 18, in 1917, and given we're talking today as an industry about the potential for a pilot program for under-21 CDL drivers, we sat down to ferret out a little bit of the history there. As Thompson says, history often repeats itself in various ways …

And, as the picture shows, more from Long Haul Paul Marhoefer from the stage at the Key Palace Theater in Redkey, Ind., this past Feb. 2. Otherwise, this edition of Overdrive Radio takes aim at combating increasingly proliferating online scams. High degrees of situational awareness are your best tools, says Safr.me consultant and author Robert Siciliano, who speaks here. Some such cases have seen the light of day at OverdriveOnline.com, including the recent dramatic and expensive tale of a Georgia trucker catfished by a fake online romantic relationship and tricked into wiring more than $25 grand to the other party. Fall for such a scam once, too, and you're now on a "sucker list" maintained by what's increasingly resembling something of an online-scam industrial complex. "They will work you to the end of your days," says Siciliano, who has a particular expertise in the online scam arena. He's the CEO of the non-profit personal security education site, and also a private investigator. He regularly consults with Fortune 500 companies about privacy and security and you might recognize his voice from interviews in major media outlets tapping his expertise in just how people can protect themselves in their online interactions. Overdrive Senior Editor James Jaillet and Contributing Editor Carolyn Mason talked with Siciliano about increasing your own awareness of how these scams play out to most effectively prevent them.

With a new record out from Laughing Hyena records and available at many truck stops around the nation, Paul Marhoefer started the week of the 2018 Mid-America Trucking Show in Nashville, Tenn., where Overdrive Radio caught up with him for an impromptu run through several of his tracks at the Fiddler's Inn. "Long Haul Paul" also talks a bit here through his approach to a new irregular series he's penning on the Overdrive Extra blog, "Faces of the Road."

Long Haul Paul, aka Paul Pelland, shares the story about his experience in the 2001 Iron Butt Rally riding a Ural in the Hopeless Class. (Without the side car...because that would have been nuts...)Maybe at some later date we'll talk to him about the 2003 Iron Butt Rally where he finished 9th.

Paul Pelland, aka Long Haul Paul, talks about how he rode 28 hours in one day. Links to Paul online:WebsiteYouTube ChannelTwitterFacebookPaul's Fundraising Page at the National MS Society

OFFICIAL LAW ABIDING BIKER WEBSITE: http://www.lawabidingbiker.com PODCAST-In this episode we dive into the true life story of a very remarkable Law Abiding Biker.  Paul Pelland, also known as "Long Haul Paul", has a truly amazing story and he shares everything with me in this interview. You won't want to miss this biker podcast episode of true inspiration and dedication.  I learned that Paul Pelland is an absolute machine and force to be reckoned with in spite of the fact that in 2005 he was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS). He didn't let that stop him from being a biker and he made it his life's mission to ride his motorcycle a million miles in his fight to bring awareness to MS.  It is called "Paul Pelland's Endless Road Tour".  In addition, he is driving efforts to raise money for MS research and to find a cure! The inaugural 2013 MS5000 ride was a great successful fundraiser.  45 riders collectively rode 200,000 miles while raising $23,000 for Multiple Sclerosis.  Anyone can enter the MS5000 event and you ride the miles you can to support the National MS Society. The reason for this Law Abiding Biker Podcast Episode is because of a loyal listener's email.  He made me aware of Paul Pelland and his mission.  I want to thank Quentin Lewis of Leicester, MA for the following email: "You probably don't know me (except for some dumb comments on FB as one of your podcast listeners), but I wanted to introduce you to Paul Pelland, known as "Long Haul Paul", because he was an Iron Butt rally guy in a prior life.....I say prior life because that was before he was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS). Anyways.....he has made it his mission to ride for MS, and he is working on what he calls his "Million Miles for a Cure". Paul has organized the MS5000, and it is a ride that any of us can make where we will ride 5000 miles in 50 days. (Or for those of us unable to make that distance, a combination of miles and money.....because after all, this is actually a fun way for us riders to raise money for the cause and have a good excuse to ride!) You can learn more about him here: http://www.longhaulpaul.com. I am not connected with Paul, but I did see his talk at last years Americade, and found him to be a real rider who is trying to use his abilities to raise money for a good cause.  Anyways, I suggest you contact him for an interview.....he is a great guy, and I am sure he would love to get people involved with his MS5000 ride." INTERVIEW About Paul Pelland Where do you live? Raised in Attleboro, Massachusetts, now lives in Londonderry, New Hampshire Where did you grow up? Background in engineering, electronics and mechanics. Paul Pelland is an avid motorcycle enthusiast Riding motorcycles for 26 years, has owned  30+ bikes Long distance rally competitor What does that mean? Explained Ridden somewhere near 300,000 miles Top ten finish in the famous Iron butt Rally Stopped competing in endurance rallies in 2003 Continues to commute and ride every day possible regardless of the weather or season Diagnosed in August 2005 with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) Spasticity, numbness, muscle weakness, fatigue and bladder issues Symptoms are greatly increased in the hot weather, or anytime his body temperature increases Has been on disease modifying medication since diagnosed and it appears to be working by reducing new brain lesions and slowing the disease progression Presentation “Having MS is Like Riding a URAL in the Iron Butt Rally” explained 400,000 people in the USA who have Multiple Sclerosis Paul Pelland's MissionPaul’s first attempt at setting a world record was successful.  He rode 1000 miles in under 24 hours on 100 different motorcycles Called "Paul Pelland's Endless Road Tour" A man with MS....a motorcycle......a million miles Paul Pelland's motorcycle and gadgets explained To ride the Endless Road Tour, an odyssey of motorcycle adventures including endurance rallies, extreme rides, and attempts at setting a few motorcycle endurance records. To raise awareness about Multiple Sclerosis while reaching out to others along the way who also have been dealt tough challenges in life; helping them recalculate their life’s road. The Endless Road Tour will chronicle the ride, the road, the life, a recorded journey of thousands and thousands of miles, at times pushing man and machine to the limits, driven by a passion, bringing the message of “finding your own road” to others with Multiple Sclerosis and other chronic illnesses.  Riding every day possible, with MS, for MS,  travelling and speaking along the way as an MS patient advocate, telling and sharing his story as it continues to evolves in real time.  To document one million motorcycle miles riding with Multiple Sclerosis, for Multiple Sclerosis. Iron Butt Association (IBA) International organization dedicated to safe long-distance motorcycle riding  60,000+ members IBA holds and certifies long distance motorcycle rides and rallies IBA hosts the “Worlds Toughest Motorcycle Competition”, an 11 day, 11,000 mile biannual event called The Iron Butt Rally http://www.ironbutt.com/ Paul Pelland has many sponsors to help with his missionMoney to date raised by efforts Law Abiding Biker Podcast & Media wants to sponsor Paul Pelland by getting his word and mission out on our podcast and website MS5000 Motorcycle Challenge Explained Annual Event 50 day challenge. How many miles can you ride? The inaugural 2013 MS5000 was a great successful fundraiser 45 riders collectively rode 200,000 miles while raising $23,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Registration fee is $30 Set up a personal fundraising page on the National MS Society website http://main.nationalmssociety.org/ All registered riders need to set up a personal fundraising page from the 2014 MS5000 page. A detailed guide is available on the Riders Only  page. Registered riders outside the United States may collect donations for a MS charity in their own country. Every dollar raised equals 10 points. In order to be considered a finisher, 1000 of the required 5000 points must be from donations.($100). Personalize your page with a story or pictures to help raise donations. Get family and friends to support your attempt by donating to your MS Society page. Donations can be collected as soon as you have registered for the MS5000; anytime after February 1st. Credit card donations are encouraged, but it is also possible to collect cash or checks from your donors. Some riders may want their donors to pledge a dime a mile or such. Feel free to raise funds any way you wish.  Please keep track, and funds must be reported and collected before thedonation deadline of Memorial Day, May 26th. Your registration confirmation email will have the password needed to access to the Rider’s Only page which gives you access to downloadable documents, detailed instructions and help, as well as where you will need to upload your starting and ending fuel receipts, and your final mileage log. All contributions to the National MS Society http://main.nationalmssociety.org/ The challenge can be completed at your discretion and the rules are simple Registered riders will document riding as many miles as they can from April 1st  through May 20th while collecting support from family and friends Each 2014 registered rider will get  a MS5000 T-shirt and a decal we hope you place somewhere visible on your bike to let your friends and family know what it is you are attempting and why Get involved, learn about MS and realize how tough every single day might be for someone with Multiple Sclerosis. Do your part to help find a cure Get out of yard work, get your friends to support you, be a hero to your family, all while riding your bike lots of great miles Motorcycles, scooters, or trikes allowed NEW EVENT FORMAT! To be considered a finisher, riders must achieve a minimum of 5000 points by combining miles and donations between April 1st and May 20th, 2014 2014 MS5000 Points Scoring Earn 1 point for every mile ridden Earn 10 points for every dollar raised 5000 points or more  to be a Finisher 10,000 points or more to be a Silver Medalist 15,000  points or more to be a Gold Medalist 20,000 points or more to be a Platinum Medalist Rider earning the most points wins! Minimum of 1000 points must be donations ($100) Minimum of 1000 points must be miles. (1000 miles) After minimum is reached, any combination can be used! The MS5000 can be run during your regular commute, daily rides, weekend trips, or during other long distance rides or events. Any documented miles ridden by the rider during these dates will count REWARDS On or before June 1st, MS5000 Results will be posted! Awards and certificates will be mailed as soon as results are finalized Paul Pelland writes for Ability Magazine http://www.abilitymagazine.com/ Paul's Pelland's social media and contact information Paul's Website: http://www.longhaulpaul.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/Longhaulpaul Keep the rubber side down and the shiny side up! _____________________________________________________________ CHECK US OUT AND SUBSCRIBE:   Website: http://www.LawAbidingBiker.com   Email & Voicemail: http://www.LawAbidingBiker.com/Contact   Phone Hotline: 509-731-3548   Twitter: https://twitter.com/LawAbidingBiker   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lawabidingbiker        YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/scrappy587     Google Plus Page: https://plus.google.com/+Lawabidingbiker587   Instagram: http://instagram.com/lawabidingbiker     RSS: feed://www.LawAbidingBiker.com/feed   iTunes Direct Link to Podcast:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-abiding-biker-podcast/id622424087    Stitcher Radio: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/law-abiding-biker-podcast   TuneIn Radio: http://tunein.com/radio/Law-Abiding-Biker-p562288/