January 11, 2021
This year, Overdrive celebrates 60 years since its 1961 founding with a series of stories looking back at the magazine s history and the story of trucking over that time, too. Find more in the series via this link.
Throughout
Overdrive s history, contributions to the magazine from working owner-operators and other truckers have been a primary way to keep the magazine grounded in the interests and concerns of the readership. The focus tracks all the way back to founder Mike Parkhurst, who as a young man had been an owner-operator himself before starting the magazine, to the present, where the Voices section of our website takes the place of traditional letters to the editor and working operators like Clifford Petersen and Paul Marhoefer offer their own original stories.