ATTN TRUCKERS : Here at the PTAG Organization : We are boycotting Overdrive magazine for what we consider very poor management decisions and failures. Remember one of their last articles. “It’s time somebody starts looking out for the little guy”. Well nobody’s looking out for the little guy anymore at Overdrive. What about their old slogan “The voice of the American Trucker” ? This is Overdrive magazines slogan, but doesn’t mean much these days anymore. Overdrive magazine has gotten themselves in a bind. This is the dilemma that creates an uneasy atmosphere amongst owner operators and small carriers. We believe that the media should be honest and ethical when it comes to these type of situations. We believe the media should just report the truth and not be swayed by ELD manufacturing dollars. Somebody at Overdrive magazine dropped the ball on this one. Somebody at Overdrive decided that they were not going to give us the information we needed to fight this ELD mandate and didn’t tell us that we had other options as well. What happened to honest journalism. We as citizens rely on the media to bring us the truth. But corporate dollars can always cloud someone’s judgement. Someone at Overdrive magazine decided that they were not gonna share with us the SBTC exemption application because they didn’t feel that the SBTC had any real resources lined up for us. You can’t play both sides of the fence Overdrive. You can’t say that you support truckers and then turn around and do something that hurts their cause. If it’s true that Overdrive Magazine kept important information from truckers, in regards to the SBTC ELD Exemption application for owner operators and small trucking companies. Then their upper management that took a deal with an ELD manufacturing company and conveniently forgot to tell truckers, small business owners and owner operators that they we have resources to fight it...need to be replaced immediately.....this is just wrong. After extensive conversations and a little bit of research. We determined that Overdrive magazine had an agenda and didn’t want to recognize the important resources truckers had to fight the ELD mandate !!!! #ptag #sbtc #eldorme