The name of the construction company, Overdrive Construction, is a homage to the film Maximum Overdrive (1986), which is also about vehicles that come to murderous life.
Kristina Sandev's debut.
Far from original since Theodore Sturgeons story "Killdozer", published in Astounding, November 1944 and later made into an ABC TV movie of the week, also about a killer machine, predate this by decades.