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Sunshine, exuberance, great athleticism. The Olympic Qualifying Series Shanghai kicked off in grand style on Thursday at the Huangpu Riverside, with enthusiastic spectators swarming into the venue to experience the festival-style event.阳光、热情与精彩的竞技运动一同出现。5月16日，奥运资格系列赛上海站在黄浦江畔隆重拉开帷幕，热情的观众蜂拥而至，体验这场节日般的盛会。Competitions for skateboarding street, skateboarding park and boulder climbing started with the preliminary rounds on the first day of the event, which ends on Sunday. The four-day series has attracted 464 top athletes to compete in BMX freestyle, breaking, skateboarding and sport climbing, vying for berths at this year's Olympic Games in Paris.滑板街式赛、滑板碗池赛和攀石赛在赛事首日的预赛中拉开帷幕，比赛将于5月17日结束。为期四天的系列赛吸引了464名顶尖运动员参加自由式小轮车、霹雳舞、滑板和运动攀岩比赛，争夺今年巴黎奥运会的入场券。"I think the atmosphere and competition venue at the event exceeded my expectations. There were even more spectators than at the Asian Games," said 17-year-old Zhang Jie, the only Chinese street skateboarder in the event and the gold medalist in men's street skateboarding at the Asian Games in Hangzhou last year.作为本次比赛中唯一的中国滑板街式赛选手，也是去年杭州亚运会滑板男子街式金牌得主，17岁的张杰说：“我认为比赛的气氛和比赛场地超出了我的预期。观众甚至比亚运会时还多。”Shanghai organizers transformed the Huangpu Riverside venue, which hosted the 2010 World Expo, into an urban park spanning 110,000 square meters for sports competitions and associated cultural and entertainment events.上海组织方将举办过2010年世博会的黄浦江畔场馆改造成一个占地11万平方米的城市公园，用于举办体育比赛和相关的文化娱乐活动。"The event is amazing, just incredible to be able to see all the other events. And the venue is really nice. I'm looking forward to the lead event," said Alex Khazanov, a sport-climbing athlete from Israel.以色列攀岩运动员亚历克斯·哈扎诺夫（Alex Khazanov）说：“这项赛事太棒了，能够看到所有其他赛事，这真是不可思议。而且场地真的很好。我期待着这项赛事。”B-Boy Karam Singh from Great Britain said: "It's amazing to be around so many incredible athletes from different sports. There are a lot of similarities between the four and the journeys that we've been on, so it's nice to see the athletes from across sports and countries connecting with each other.英国的霹雳舞舞者卡拉姆·辛格（Karam Singh）说：“能与这么多来自不同运动项目的优秀运动员在一起，我感到非常高兴。四人之间有很多相似之处，我们的经历也有很多相似之处，很高兴看到来自不同运动项目和国家的运动员相互联系。”What makes the inaugural edition of the Olympic Qualifying Series special is the combination of an urban festival that integrates sports, music, art and culture with the hard-core sports competitions.首届奥运资格系列赛的特别之处在于将融体育、音乐、艺术和文化为一体的城市节庆与核心体育赛事相结合。"The event has a great vibe and it reminds me a little bit of the festival vibe. You see all the athletes skating between everyone, so I really enjoyed that," said Karina Bes from the Netherlands. Bes visited the urban festival with her daughter, who is a keen skateboarder.荷兰的卡琳娜·贝斯（Karina Bes）和女儿一起参加了城市滑板节，她的女儿非常喜欢滑板。卡琳娜·贝斯（Karina Bes）说：“这项赛事的氛围很好，让我想起了节日的氛围。你会看到所有运动员在每个人之间滑行，所以我真的很喜欢这种感觉。”Compared with other sports events, Bes added that the series offers more varied experiences. "I would have expected it to be way more crowded, but it's cool," she said. "There is enough space, enough things to eat and drink. Lots of fun things around."贝斯（Bes）补充说，与其他体育赛事相比，该系列赛事提供了更多不同的体验。她说：“我本以为会更拥挤，但这很酷。这里有足够的空间，足够的吃喝玩乐。周围有很多好玩的东西。”Five "experience zones" including a pop art-inspired climbing zone, origami-style skateboarding zone, hip-hop graffiti-themed breaking zone and an industrial woodland BMX zone, have opened inside the urban park.包括波普艺术风格的攀岩区、折纸风格的滑板区、嘻哈涂鸦主题的霹雳舞区和工业林地小轮车区在内的五个“体验区”已在城市公园中开设。"I think the atmosphere of the series is stronger than that of the Olympic Games because of the urban festival," said Zhong Tianshi, China's two-time Olympic track cycling champion. "In the Olympic Games, people just watch the competitions, but at this sports festival, people can participate in and experience these sports. I think it brings more anticipation to this competition."“我认为这个系列赛的气氛比奥运会更浓厚，因为有‘城市节'，”两届奥运会场地自行车冠军、中国选手钟天使说，“在奥运会上，人们只是观看比赛，但在这个体育节上，人们可以参与和体验这些运动。我认为这给这场比赛带来了更多的期待。”Hosting the qualifier series in an Olympic year injects new impetus and advantages into Shanghai's efforts to accelerate its development as a globally renowned sports city and enhance the soft power of its urban culture.在奥运年举办系列资格赛，为上海加快建设全球知名体育城市、提升城市文化软实力注入了新的动力和优势。"I feel impressed by the energy of the city," said Pierre Fratter-Bardy, the International Olympic Committee's associate director of Olympic Games strategy and development. "The venue is extraordinary and has an exceptional setup. We are very thankful to the city of Shanghai regarding the quality."“这座城市的活力给我留下了深刻印象，”国际奥委会负责奥运会战略和发展的副主任皮埃尔·弗拉特-巴迪（Pierre Fratter-Bardy）说，“这个场馆非同一般，拥有卓越的设施。我们非常感谢上海的办赛质量。”Besides the competitions, the event also provides athletes with an opportunity to explore the city.除了比赛之外，本次赛事还为运动员提供了一个探索这座城市的机会。"This is my first time in Shanghai. Super impressed by the city. It is completely out of the world I'm used to — all the skyscrapers and the city is huge," said Sandra Hopfensitz, a boulderer and lead combined contestant from Germany.德国的攀石运动员、综合比赛领队桑德拉·霍普芬茨（Sandra Hopfensitz）说：“这是我第一次来上海。我对这座城市的印象非常深刻。我完全脱离了所熟悉的世界——所有的摩天大楼和城市都是巨大的。”Grace Marhoefer and Rudy Lilley, both park skateboarders from the US, were also impressed.美国的滑板碗池赛选手格蕾丝·马霍弗（Grace Marhoefer）和鲁迪·里利（Rudy Lilley）也对此印象深刻。"We've gotten to negotiate a lot of places and meet a lot of cool people. I'm just grateful to be here and experience everything," Marhoefer said.马霍弗（Marhoefer）说：“我们成功滑行了很多地方，认识了很多很酷的人。我很高兴能来到这里，体验这里的一切。”Lilley added: "I'm really happy to be here. I love it and I love the food and people. It's been amazing."里利（Lilley）补充说：“我真的很高兴来到这里。我喜欢这里，喜欢这里的食物和人们。这真是太棒了”The second stop of the series is scheduled to be held in the Hungarian capital Budapest from June 20 to 23, with 150 spots at this summer's Paris Olympics to be filled after the two stops.系列赛的第二站定于6月20日至23日在匈牙利首都布达佩斯举行，两站比赛结束后，今年夏天巴黎奥运会的150个参赛名额将被填补。the Olympic Qualifying Series奥运会资格系列赛BMX freestyle自由式小轮车breaking霹雳舞

The Nazi state was built on persecution and multiple groups in addition to Jews were victimized and killed during the Holocaust.  Today's podcast looks not only at Nazi persecution of gay and transgender people along with Nazi homophobic thought, but also explores the history of LGTBQ communities in Germany before the war.We also look at the challenges to doing this historical work as well as the recent assaults on Holocaust history by those aiming to use that past to justify current intolerance.Laurie Marhoefer is a history professor at the University of Washington.Marhoefer, Laurie. Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (2015)Marhoefer, Laurie. Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love (2022)Follow on Twitter @holocaustpod.Email the podcast at holocausthistorypod@gmail.comThe Holocaust History Podcast homepage is here

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!

For this Overdrive Radio edition, a bit of a special preview of a special report dropping this coming Monday, July 10. It's called “Trucking's State of Surveillance” and follows Overdrive's surveying of our owner-operator, small fleet and company driver readers about remote monitoring- and/or tracking-capable technologies used in the business. We asked readers assess the techs they use -- from smartphones and ELDs to truck and trailer telematics and various permutations of monitoring video cameras -- and rate what's being given up in costs and/or being gained in benefits. Reporting around those results yielded plenty in the way of how working owner-ops and other truckers view how techs are changing the trucking business and culture, as monitoring goes well beyond just fleets today and sits squarely in other business-to-business relationships with brokers and others. But all of that reporting also followed attorney and academic Karen Levy's book "Data Driven: Truckers, technology, and the new workplace surveillance," in which Levy tells the story of trucking during a time of transition, before and after federally mandated electronic logging devices came into play in late 2017. The book leans heavily on in-depth interviews with working drivers, and boatloads of other research besides, including leaning in part on Overdrive's own chronicling of the ELD transition over the last decade and more. Our own Long Haul Paul Marhoefer early on in 2023 suggested interviewing Karen Levy. That was well before we began work on the special series of features you'll find Monday on the state of surveillance in the trucking business (the link to the anchor story will be live Monday July 10): https://www.overdriveonline.com/15541635 Full results of our State of Surveillance survey of Overdrive's owner-operator readers: https://www.overdriveonline.com/home/document/15541779/state-of-surveillance That interview with Karen Levy eventually did happen, and is certainly integral to what's a big report in seven parts. Marhoefer and Levy, in this episode, take us back to the initial inspiration for the book with FMCSA's first feints toward an e-log mandate more than a decade ago. The talk touches on added stress around hours accounting, added pressure on drivers of all stripes from supply chain parties, and dovetails with Overdrive's reporting from late last year on crash-statistics since the mandate, too: https://www.overdriveonline.com/csas-data-trail/article/15301876/crashes-injuries-and-fatalities-up-posteld-mandate At a fundamental level, Levy noted, truckers know the problems they face -- detention and parking, how they're entertwined with making the hours of service regulations as onerous as they can be for many -- and that they're all fundamentally problems of economy, of finances, of just compensation for the time put in. All of the time put in. For all the rancor that the ELD mandate engenders, and all the technological intrusiveness it's in some ways enabled, ELDs can play a role in that just-compensation fix. But as Levy has it, they're certainly no panacea, much less any kind of magic safety tool.

With truck-show season fast upon us, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer takes the mic for this week's Overdrive Radio edition as the Mid America Trucking show's set to commence on Thursday, March 30th. There will be the pageantry and the pomp, the polish and the shine. Influencers, thought leaders, and micro-celebrities. (Oh my!) But you know what Marhoefer looks forward to the most? It's the war stories. It's the accounts you hear while you're waiting on a table to open up at a steakhouse, or maybe while tipping back a cool beverage or two. It's the unguarded things people tell you about their lives and work when they've had a few days to step away and decompress. This episode features one such conversation. Owner-operator Bill Douglas is an old truck show friend. Marhoefer met him at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas back around 2016. Back then, Bill was just thinking about becoming a trucker. These days, he's a six-year veteran of the super slab, hauling with a mission, too, to be a mentor to new drivers he's training for Prime. This time last year, the pair went out for that steak, and along the way Bill gave Paul the lowdown on big fleet training -- the good, the bad and the ugly. Also in the podcast: Join ATBS VP Mike Hosted and Overdrive's own Gary Buchs 1:45 p.m. local time Friday, March 31, for the annual Partners in Business seminar. Stay tuned for the updated version of Overdrive's Partners in Business manual, too, to be released next week. Read more about the session via this link: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15352892/new-owneroperator-business-manual-updated-for-release-at-mats And for a full schedule of a bevy of MATS business-related programming, visit the show site here: https://truckingshow.com/education/ Hope to see you there.

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

Another day, another year nearly in the books -- here's our annual Overdrive Radio year-in-review. Thanks for hanging in with us through yet another big year for trucking as an owner-operator, one with absolutely huge challenges, for sure. We'll hear about a lot of them again today. But hopefully, by the end, there's something that sparks a new idea, or urges you on to completion of an old goal with new rigor, with new vigor. 2022 was a big one for Overdrive Radio, too -- thanks to longtime contributor and trucker-songwriter Long Haul Paul Marhoefer and the pros at Muscle Shoals Music Marketing we got an updated theme in Marhoefer's "Legend of the Snakeman," for one, an ode to the legendary guitarist who featured on Marhoefer's cut of the track, Travis "The Snakeman" Wammack. The podcast also got the nod for Best Podcast from the business journalism folks behind the Jesse H. Neal Awards early in the year: https://www.overdriveonline.com/regulations/article/15291438/fmcsa-updating-household-goods-regs-with-new-recommendations That wouldn't be possible of course but for the very fact of you -– the listeners, the stories so many among you entrusted to us to air through the course of the year. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, we count down to 2023 with 10 episodes that garnered the most ears throughout the year, with an extra five too that got quite close to the top-10 cut -– honorable mentions, as it were. Themes emerge in cost challenges with fuel-market insanity and ongoing other inflation. We'll hear about double brokering and other freight fraud, and how lax enforcement to combat it de facto enables it. We'll hear a variety of perhaps unpopular opinions about regulations, and plenty and plenty in the way of brass-tacks owner-operator business advice gleaned from long experience, and in-depth analysis too. It was a wild year, as Alex Lockie's year-in-brief Wednesday this week made plenty clear: https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15304914/fmcsas-new-agenda-wild-inflation-owners-who-braved-a-bloodbath-2022-in-review For all the guests on the podcast, 2022 was perhaps no more both difficult as well as fortunate than it was for 2022 Small Fleet Champ contender Bryon Stoll of Surprise Trucking. Stoll suffered a heart attack even as Overdrive was in the midst of putting together a profile of the 10-truck fleet: https://www.overdriveonline.com/small-fleet-champ/article/15115044/suprise-truckings-long-road-to-resurrection A couple of quick-thinking professionals saved his life, a story he told in a September edition of Overdrive Radio: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio/podcast/15297166/hindsights-2020-after-nearfatal-heart-attack-for-bryon-stoll We're happy to report Stoll's recovery has gone well but is ongoing, he says. At once, he's feeling hopeful about the prospects for full recovery. Our hope's right there with his. Hear part of his story as well as 15 others revisiting recent history in today's podcast. Full versions of each featured episode you can find via this link: https://soundcloud.com/overdriveradio/sets/2022-in-review-the-top-10-plus

Det är kanske överdrivet att påstå att det inte pratas nog om Weimarrepubliken. För att vara ett kortlivat politiskt experiment omtalas det faktiskt rätt ofta. Men det är lätt hänt att bara fokusera på de ekonomiska kriserna eller den politiska kollapsen. Att läsa Weimar som en enkelresa till Hitler.I själva verket finns det enormt mycket intressanta drag i den tyska mellankrigstiden som är lätta att förbise. Detta avsnitt handlar om ett sådant: det enorma intresset av sexualitet och människors kroppar. I många länder kom första världskriget att blåsa bort förstockade borgerliga värderingar om sex och samliv. Nu var det dags för människor att leva friare och lyckligare... men hur? Nu blir det könsliv, prostitution, nudism och homosexualitet; kyrklig kritik och nya frisyrer.--Läslista (bl a)Weitz, Eric D., Weimartyskland: löfte och tragedi, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2009Marhoefer, Laurie "Degeneration, Sexual Freedom, and the Politics of the Weimar Republic, 1918–1933" German Studies Review 34/3 (2011) Lyssna på våra avsnitt fritt från reklam: https://plus.acast.com/s/historiepodden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

Early on in this Overdrive Radio edition showcasing trucker-songwriter "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's new "Corn Belt Cafe" long-player, the Overdrive Extra contributor describes standing at the register of a roadside diner somewhere in Illinois on Labor Day in the early 1980s. "Right in front of the counter there was a worn spot in the linoleum," Marhoefer said, and "standing in the blackness of that worn spot in the linoleum ... was one of those moments where you're surprised by a sense of bliss." It was as if Marhoefer "had entered the portal of some one-ness," he said, a sense of being a part of a living history, of a fashion. "That's something you don't talk about if you're a straight-truck driver from Indiana," as Marhoefer was at the time, though the memory stuck with him through the years. So many of those old roadside diners are gone, as is so much else, and you get the sense listening to "Corn Belt Cafe" that Marhoefer feels keenly the loss, a pervasive sense that permeates much of the record. The disc was recorded almost entirely in live takes in-studio with a principal partner in Michael Ronstadt, on the cello. The pair were able to evoke an appropriately earthy feel throughout, and the record features contributions from songwriters other than Marhoefer, and a couple co-writes with trucking fellow travelers Ken “Shoestring” Waugh, who sadly passed away last year, and Alabama-based J.D. Haynes. All in all, "Corn Belt Cafe" is something of a first for Marhoefer, in that the record and it's 12 tracks have a cohesiveness that's maybe less apparent on some of his prior efforts, a throwback to an era in which the album was the ultimate product for any musical act. Take a run through several stand-out tracks, many informed by Marhoefer's long trucking past, in today's edition of Overdrive Radio. Find an embed of the full album in the post that houses this podcast at https://www.overdriveonline.com/15286999

Another edition here drops in Overdrive Radio's re-air of the Over the Road podcast series, coproduced by Overdrive and PRX's Radiotopia podcast network and hosted by 'Long Haul Paul' Marhoefer. Here, the host's "Long Haul of Fame” tells the stories of five of Marhoefer's personal heroes -- longtime professional driver Idella Marie Hansen; owner-operator Big Jim Selkirk; trucker Ken “Shoestring” Waugh; overnight radio D.J. Marcia Campbell; and, finally, a tribute to one of those heroes who's passed on, New York-based Fast Freddie Lieb, the “Pope of Pompano” running out of the Florida Pompano Beach market and up and down the East Coast, where Marhoefer knew him best. What emerges over the course of the episode is an indelible take on recent trucking history through these individual stories, including that of Marhoefer himself. Also in the podcast: Highlights from the week's news, which you can keep tabs on daily via Overdrive's daily newsletter. Subscribe via http://overdriveonline.com Find all editions of Over the Road via this playlist collecting our re-airs: https://soundcloud.com/overdriveradio/sets/the-over-the-road-podcast-on Hear more from the Radiotopia network via http://radiotopia.fm

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, take a tour down I-75 in Kentucky in search of an answer to the age-old question: Who has the best nanner pudding among the truck stops along that route, and which one of them was the first to advertise it on the CB? This week, we run back through some trucking micro-history with our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer via another edition in the Over the Road podcast series, originally produced by PRX's Radiotopia in collaboration with us here at Overdrive. It's a veritable caper of a episode, so hang on tight. Also in the podcast: A fairly moderate amount of snow in and around Evanston, Wyoming, this season has put a bit of a damper on business for the Dustbusters provider of road de-icers and stabilizers for dusty gravel roads. It hasn't, however, stopped work in the shop on a beauty of a daycab 1980 Kenworth W900A owner-operator Martin Herman has put in with this crew -- Dustbusters owner Craig Prete, shop foreman Cole Potter, mechanic Kipp Knight and Austin Oliver. Regular readers may well recall Herman's own 1970 model W900A from our detail of it back last summer: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio/podcast/14898050/ownerop-talks-roadside-inspections-and-rig-restoration In the podcast, Herman details a good bit of the work put into Prete's 1980 after it had been more or less idle for many years. The daycab features a rolloff body Dustbusters will most likely use simply as a flatbed for hauling bagged product. (The tow companies in the area are keeping an eye out for stiff competition, nonetheless, Herman joked.) Near the end of this week's episode, too, a brand-new song from Marhoefer, in part inspired by the stories told here, in what was originally Over the Road episode 4, airing early last year. You can here the song in full via the following link, and keep tuned for more releases from Marhoefer from this session with cellist Michael Ronstadt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQuVqTy_4jU Subscribe to Overdrive's newsletter for daily updates five days a week: overdriveonline.com

A note for Overdrive Radio subscribers using some podcasting apps: We've got a new, redesigned website coming at http://OverdriveOnline.com – if you regularly listen via a podcasting app other than those offered by Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, or Apple or Google podcasts, we're transitioning to a different principle RSS feed for Overdrive Radio. If you need to in your app, you can update the settings with this feed URL and be certain to get all of the episodes going forward: https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:63998864/sounds.rss In today's edition, we're taking a run back through another episode of the Over the Road podcast series -- hopefully engrossing listening to take you through a long run and perhaps a little diversion from the political rancor of our chaotic time. This is episode 2 in the OTR series -- originally titled “Why We Drive.” Regular readers will know we produced Over the Road in collaboration with PRX's Radiotopia podcast network, and it was hosted by our own "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer. In the episode, Marhoefer and producer Lacy Roberts spent time with two operators in Grand Island, Neb., owner-operator Jared Sidlo as well as Kenyette Godhigh-Bell, based out of Florida. In April 2019 when the interview was conducted, Godhigh-Bell was right at one year in trucking, pulling a reefer as a company driver with Grand Island Express. The visit with her featured in the podcast also included some time in an owner-operator training course of sorts at Grand Island headquarters -- no matter of chance, as it were. Less than two years since we talked with her on the anniversary of maiden voyage with Grand Island Express, she's now out trucking with her own authority in a 2017 Freightliner Cascadia near identical to the company truck Marhoefer describes in the episode, minus as yet the "Lady K" insignia on the door. She's power only at the moment with her authority active for just a couple of months – part of the wave of new authorities since mid-summer host Todd Dills wrote about in this story a month or so ago: https://www.overdriveonline.com/volatile-year-growing-pains-in-app-freight-pricing-value-of-negotiation/ As you listen to this OTR episode, keep Godhigh-Bell's present in mind as she speaks from the past –- wonderful, simply put, isn't it, to see a plan come to fruition. Find the Radiotopia podcast network via http://Radiotopia.fm Subscribe to Overdrive's newsletter for daily updates five days a week: http://overdriveonline.com/newsletter-signup

The 11 tracks on Long Haul Paul Marhoefer's new "Songs from a Truck" album -- available now via the streaming platforms and on a CD you can order via http://longhaulpaulmusic.com/merch -- cap what's been quite a year for Marhoefer, as most of you will know pretty well. He was the voice of the Overdrive/Radiotopia coproduction of the Over the Road podcast earlier this year, which reached millions of listeners both inside and out of trucking. His stories of hauling in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, too, turned no small number of your ears early on in the national panic that ensued -- and lately, too -- via his contributions to the Overdrive Extra blog, and Overdrive Radio. For me, though, this record, released with little promotional fanfare a couple months back, might be the crowning achievement. It follows the stellar “You Were a Good Hand” from a year ago, and comes at a time where its explorations of personal history and emotion will strike a chord for anyone struggling with how to manage the pressures and risks of the road with a family back home – such a struggle got more than a few added wrinkles this year, no doubt. Hear a variety of the tracks within, and the stories behind those songs, in this Overdrive Radio edition.  The title of "Songs from a Truck" can be taken quite literally, too -- the entirety was recorded in the cab of the Moeller Trucking Peterbilt Marhoefer pulls a reefer in today, in the lot of a Ft. Worth, Texas, warehouse. Marhoefer's wife of 40 years, Denise, was on-hand for recording and, along with well-known videographer James “Tex” Crowley (who engineered the in-cab recording), became something of a character throughout the course of the album's stories told, songs sung, jokes told. Hear more Marhoefer via the Over the Road podcast production of PRX's Radiotopia and Overdrive: http://overdriveonline.com/tag/over-the-road-podcast Subscribe to Overdrive's daily newsletter for trucking news, views and analysis geared toward current and prospective owner-operators: http://OverdriveOnline.com/newsletter-signup

Sam is joined by friend of show Ryan Marhoefer, Editor at Large of The Hasparian. The two discuss the latest Covid-19 developments before moving to chatting about movies and pop culture! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whitfieldreport/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whitfieldreport/support

Ever wonder why so many truckers park their rigs on highway off-ramps, in retail store parking lots and at other odd locations? It’s not their first choice, and it’s not the safest choice either, but sometimes it’s their only choice. Research by Sal Hernandez reveals that the national truck parking shortage takes an enormous toll on people and commerce.

Paul Marhoefer performed this original track at the 2018 edition of Overdrive/Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search at the Dallas Great American Trucking Show. His performance opened the 2018 edition of the competition, eventually won by Mandi Jo Pinheiro.

Paul Marhoefer performs the track that got him into the 2015 final round of Overdrive/Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search. His performance opened the 2018 edition of the competition, eventually won by Mandi Jo Pinheiro.

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."

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Weimar Republic was home to the first gay rights movement, led by well-known sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. It also inspired many literary and cinematic representations of sexual liberation in legendary 1920s Berlin. In her ambitious book, Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis (University of Toronto Press, 2015), Laurie Marhoefer revises several assumptions about the sexual politics of Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. She examines how the sexual freedoms fought for by many reformers often came at the expense of a minority perceived as too non-conformist even by the left. Critically exploring explosive personalities, such as Hirschfeld and Ernst Roehm, and political turning points, such as the Venereal Disease Law of 1927 and the Vote on Repealing the Sodomy Law in 1929, this book demonstrates the profound ambiguities of the era. Marhoefer suggests that a Weimar Republic political settlement between diverse factions simultaneously saw emancipation of those who could claim a new respectability based on scientific reasoning and increased criminal control over the sexual lives of individuals who could not. Combining dynamic individual stories with several revisionist arguments, this book is one that will appeal to many listeners. Michael E. O’Sullivan is Associate Professor of History at Marist College where he teaches courses about Modern Europe. He will publish Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965 with University of Toronto Press in August 2018.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam is joined by Ryan Marhoefer of Chapman University who has gained notoriety after he wrote an opinion piece for his college newspaper which triggered Leftists on Campus. Ryan shares his story with Sam, and they also discuss the political fall-out following Florida, Trump's job as President thus far, and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/whitfieldreport/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whitfieldreport/support

Paul Marhoefer's "Odious Death of the Cracker King," from "Raw Cuts" record of acoustic folks, tells the story of a fictional character in the title, which Marhoefer describes as something of a composite of two men he'd known long ago, the "sons of outlaw bull haulers" both, plus a little of that mythic dirge treatment Marhoefer's a master of.

Paul Marhoefer's performance at the Great American Trucking Show in 2016 followed on the heels of two night rounds of shows with Bill Weaver at Fair Park in the hospitality area of the truck-parking lot for the event -- likewise release of Marhoefer's "Old Black Epiphone" record. Read more about the album and part of its recording at Muscle Shoals Music with Alabama session players via this report from Spring 2016: http://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-paul-marhoefer-live-from-muscle-shoals-music-studio/

Indiana-based Paul Marhoefer "Old Black Epiphone" sessions in mid-May at the Muscle Shoals Music studio of Donnie Gullett in Tuscumbia, Ala., move the 2015 Trucker Talent Search finalist closer to a record. Here the roots songwriter talks about his inspiration for the choice of the studio and where he takes cues for his songwriting, in some cases his fellow drivers. Catch video and more from the session via http://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-paul-marhoefer-live-from-muscle-shoals-music-studio/

Trucker/singer-songwriter Paul Marhoefer continues his recent spate of recording activity with this romp of a track, a sneak peek of sorts at results from a recent session with the studio pros at the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. Read more about him and his music via http://www.overdriveonline.com/god-and-god-alone-driver-songwriter-paul-marhoefers-latest/

A new track from Indiana-based trucker and singer-songwriter Paul Marhoefer, written following his two daughters graduation from college early in 2015 and also inspired by memories of a catastrophic crash Marhoefer was involved in years ago. Given it crippled him in the short term and ruined his career as an owner-operator, Marhoefer believes it held the potential to have outsize negative effects on the young lives around him but that "God, and God Alone, took us here from there...." against the odds.

Paul Marhoefer's "Jacksonville" takes the point of view of a trucker nearing the end of his career and requesting that final dispatch. Marhoefer got the competition heated up as the first performer among the three finalists at the Great American Trucking Show. Based in Indiana, he drives for Moeller Trucking. Read more about him at this link: http://www.overdriveonline.com/looking-forward-to-a-musical-good-time-trucker-talent-search-finalist-paul-marhoefer/

Paul Marhoefer, 55, of Indiana, talks at length about his musical influences and his long trucking career in this interview, conducted by Red Eye Radio's Eric Harley you'll find in the podcast below. In the on-site theater at GATS in Dallas August 28, 3:30 p.m., Marhoefer as well as fellow Trucker Talent Search finalists Nate Moran and Don Whatley will perform before a panel of judges to determine the ultimate winner of the Overdrive/Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition. Singer-songwriter and driver Tony Justice will emcee the event and also perform. Find more via http://www.overdriveonline.com/three-singing-truckers-head-to-dallas/