Five famous pop-culture trucking classics, all together in one place
Updated Jun 1, 2021 The following story was originally penned in 2016 by the most enthusiastic among trucking-culture enthusiasts, former "American Trucker" television series host and producer Robb Mariani, about a history-making event that year. It was updated slightly from its original form in June 2021 as part of Overdrive 's 60th-anniversary celebration and its series of lookbacks at trucking history. Contemporary trucking seems about a million miles away from what trucking was even a decade ago, much less 50 years or so. But on a day in 2016 in Lincolnton, North Carolina, the past met th...