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May 18, 2021 Owner-operator David Michaels, of Baxter, Tennessee, has been selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition for 2021. He submitted his original song, “The Storm,” which he says has a double meaning. “I wrote the song about my little dog who has become my service dog,” he says. “But when you listen to the song and the words, it’s of a child singing about her parents.” Michaels started singing at age 7 and began writing songs in 2004. He says he entered the contest because “I felt I’d be giving back to...

May 19, 2021 Rich Scripps, a company driver for Grassmid Transport, has been selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition. He submitted his cover of the Hawaiian Christmas song, “Mele Kalikimaka,” which he says he posted “for friends for Christmas ‘from the road.’” Scripps, 61, of Spring Lake, Michigan, has been singing since the mid-1980s. He says he started as a drummer, then moved to Beaver Island, Michigan, where he started learning how to play keyboard. He says when he got divorced 20 years ago, he went though...

Sheffield's song, he says, is about what it can sometimes feel like to to be over the road. The 52-year-old OTR reefer hauler began singing as a child in church and wrote his first song at around 15-16 years old.

Tennessee-based driver John Malayter won the 2020 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio's Trucker Talent Search. In his finals competition, he performed a song he wrote about missing home, “Take Me Back to Tennessee,” which he penned before he began truck driving.Todd DillsTen singing drivers have made it to the semi-finals of the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search, now in its eighth year. Their video entries offer a glimpse of the voices and instrumental skills of the competitors. Overdrive will publish brief profiles of the 10 this month before announcing the three finalists. Thos...

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