High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Maximum Homerdrive" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons` tenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 28, 1999. In the episode, Homer challenges trucker Red Barclay to a meat eating contest, which Barclay is the long-standing champion of. Barclay wins, but quickly dies of "beef poisoning," making it the first time Barclay will miss a shipment. Feeling bad for him, Homer takes on the duty of transporting Barclay`s cargo to Atlanta, with his son Bart by his side.