Load by phone: Legacy boards add access tools

Todd Dills | April 11, 2013

More owner-operators are leaving their laptops at home and doing business on the road – including load-finding – exclusively from their smartphones and tablets. Cody Blankenship's Kenworth tractor and reefer trailer When 4B Transportation owner-operator Cody ...

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Behind the scenes with Lisa Kelly

Jack Roberts | April 05, 2013

Check out Jack Roberts' on-camera interview with Kelly via this link to the Overdrive post with the video. A couple weeks ago, as the Mid-America Trucking Show was winding down in Louisville, my friends at ...

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Trucker Buddy names Ambassador of the Year

Overdrive Staff | April 04, 2013

Trucker Buddy International recently selected Randolph Boswell, a driver for Southern Refrigerated Transport, or Texarkana, Ark., the Darrell Hicks Memorial Ambassador of the Year for 2013. The award was presented at the Red Eye Radio ...

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Carriers watching you, and why that might not be the worst thing

James Jaillet | April 01, 2013

Well, maybe "watching you" is a little too strong. Nobody wants a blackbox monitoring their driving, whether in the form of an electronic logging device, cameras in your face or anything else that records you, your ...

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Roundup: Glider kudos, sequester FMCSA, Levi’s ‘Trucker’ classic

Todd Dills | March 30, 2013

A few choice items, in case you missed (keep the letters coming): Sequester FMCSA “Alabama's certification is a good thing. The test was a great refresher for securement on all freight. I believe FMCSA is placing ...

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My MATS Mash-up

Jack Roberts | March 30, 2013

Another Mid-America Trucking Show is in the books and things are quiet for the moment while the trucking industry catches its collective breath. There’ll be more big news coming soon – I’ll be in Germany ...

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Three letters, rhymes with ‘essay,’ not a veggie box…

Todd Dills | March 28, 2013

Since October or November of 2009, amid all of the various and sundry things I've written about here at the blog and elsewhere in Overdrive, one subject has been a veritable constant, assuming perhaps the ...

MATS 2013

VIDEO: MATS 2013 walk-through

Overdrive Staff | March 27, 2013

If you missed the 2013 Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., last week, you can always run through our full coverage via this page, but take the time as well to check out this nifty ...

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CSA'S DATA TRAIL

Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw

Independent owner-operators have the lowest rate of truck-involved crashes but are far more likely to be put out of service than drivers for carriers with 500 or more trucks, which have a higher crash rate.