Truckers News Senior Editor Todd Dills is the author of a novel, Sons of the Rapture, and blogs daily at www.overdriveonline.com/channel19. Write him at tdills@rrpub.com or http://twitter.com/channel19todd.

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Owner-operator gets his advocacy legs via truck maker’s promotional program

When Perkins Specialized leased owner-operator Dick McCorkle found out in February 2008 that he’d been recommended as a potential candidate to receive a brand-new Freightliner Cascadia for a sort of long-term test-drive that is the truck maker’s Slice of Life program (