Feb 08, 2021
Years after attending the trucking convention, the Optic Nerve crew hit the road to gather material for a trucking documentary.Lynn AdlerMore than 45 years ago, a group of friends was looking for meaningful projects to put on film. Their documentary dreams led them to projects such as rodeo cowboys and a California beauty pageant.
“Our group thought it would be interesting to explore different cultural parts of America that people don’t know much about unless you’re in them,” recalled Lynn Adler, part of the film collective Optic Nerve, when we spoke last week. One of the subcultures that caught their attention was truck driving.
Next up in Overdrive s 60th anniversary series, meet Evel Knievel s former haul rig driver and gander at Overdrive s 1973 interview with the daredevil himself.
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.
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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.