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Overdrive Radio
Will FMCSA safety rating be key to owner-ops' access to freight?
Short answer: Not by itself. Today on Overdrive Radio, a view from the broker's side of the equation. Jennifer Mead of S2 argues for more safety rating from FMCSA, yet underscores the value of in-real-life relationships between middlemen and carrier service providers.
June 8, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Truckstop.com's reboot: Inside the leadership purge, staff reduction, renewed customer focus
After company CEO Scott Moscrip returned last year, roughly 80% of leadership "was let go within about six months." This week in Overdrive Radio, Moscrip details how renewed customer focus is delivering functionality improvements for owner-ops and brokers in all areas for the board.
June 1, 2026
Overdrive Extra
You've backed the rig into tighter spots, right?
When the road gives you more than a story: Michael Singleton here narrates a backing mistake in the desert, one of those errors that "get named" in memory forever: "I stood there doing the math every driver knows: damage, load status, who to call, and how bad this was about to get..."
May 29, 2026
Channel 19
Nearly 300 illegal migrants stopped, prosecuted in Indiana?
WAKE UP AMERICA! The media is lying to you, or maybe just lazy. Look at a misremembered, misreported story of 283 'illegal migrant' truckers stopped.
May 26, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Momentum building: Trucker of the Month Sam Kelly, 3 trucks and counting
Kelly separates himself in his willingness to be the problem-solver, to take matters into his own hands when plans break down. But his story is remarkable, too, with respect to a clear instinct to learn from his own errors in business and in life, and come out the other side no less eager to win.
May 25, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking 'gold fever' brewing? Don't let rates rah-rah blur costs
It’s hard to miss rhetoric about how great rates are. For Gary Buchs, his first reaction to the big run-up is a bit different, recognizing costs will rise in tandem. Take a lesson from the 1800s "Gold Rush" out West.
May 22, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking brotherhood ain't dead yet: Breakdown, $360K cargo theft brings out the best
An owner-operator's breakdown led to a $360K-plus cargo and trailer theft, but brought out the best of the trucking community. The owner-op and legions of comrades tracked down the stolen equipment, getting Robert "Rocket" Miceli's business back on the right track.
May 20, 2026
Business
Owner-ops respond to broker group's freakout over SCOTUS decision
After four years of brokers' increasingly intrusive "carrier vetting" practices, TIA says it's "impossible" to evaluate carrier safety. Owner-ops respond here, curse words omitted.
May 20, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business
An
Overdrive
2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.
May 18, 2026
Business
Last call! Weigh in on broker vetting and transparency, fraud, bond claims
ICYMI: Take Overdrive's survey on freight fraud, broker credit checks and other vetting. Middlemen's own reliance on “carrier vetting” systems is sure to grow with the recent SCOTUS broker-accountability ruling -- the survey digs in on those systems, nonpayment, bond claims, "chameleons" and transparency.
May 15, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Aim 'chameleon carrier' outrage at the real culprits
Small fleets and owner-ops -- all trucking factions, really -- should take care not to give ammo to a "circular firing squad" playing the blame game. There's plenty to go around, historically, for setting the stage. But the real culprits, networks perpetrating frauds on carriers and drivers, truly deserve all they get.
May 12, 2026
Overdrive Radio
FMCSA registration to go dark: How truckers can prep for Motus
May 14, at roughly 8 p.m. Eastern, is the deadline to take these steps to set your trucking business up to easily claim your new account in Motus when it launches next week. The new system will aim combat the FMCSA's "front door problem" to prevent bad actors' access.
May 11, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking for the next generation: Advise your kids to take the wheel?
Would you advise a trucking career to your own children? Long Haul Paul asked, and these owners and drivers chimed in. A hard "no" was one answer. What's yours? Weigh in here.
May 7, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Roadcheck 2026: Toughest states for HOS violations
With CVSA's annual Roadcheck upcoming May 12-14, take a look at rankings for the toughest HOS-enforcement states, and ways owner-ops might prepare for inspectors' focus on ELD tampering, false logs.
May 4, 2026
Overdrive Radio
20% MPG boost: GDL Enterprise's right-place, right-time new-truck investment
Year 2025 was a rollercoaster mostly headed downhill for owner-op Greg Labosky, yet with a new truck purchased in January, he's improved fuel mileage considerably, by well more than a mile per gallon not even past break-in.
April 27, 2026
Regulations
TIA responds to 'chameleon carrier' firestorm around Super Ego, C.H. Robinson
The biggest broker trade group responded to the outrage over chameleon carriers. Questioned on some of the bolder points, TIA stopped short of defending any one broker's actions.
April 24, 2026
Overdrive Extra
'Road's good for thinking,' but real life's where it takes you back
Quick stop at the Joplin 44 at a crisis moment in the life of a team driver and his wife hundreds of miles away, an older trucker leaning against a worn Pete in the lot delivers a catharsis: "The road was still there, same as always ... but I wasn’t thinking about where it could take me..."
April 22, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Just how high has owner-ops' truck-trailer maintenance cost moved?
According to ATBS, in 2025 owner-operators spent upward of $14,000 on average. That's 15 cents of maintenance for every single mile run. What's your set-aside for truck and trailer upkeep? If you haven’t boosted the number in a while, there's no time like the present.
April 20, 2026
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Just one week left to compete for Small Fleet Champ: Enter here
On the line for four 3-30-truck finalist owners are membership benefits through NASTC and a trip to Nashville for the championship event this fall. That's not to mention bragging rights, plenty industry recognition and that vaunted title belt. Enter by July 31 to compete via this short form.
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Hedge against bad brokers: Trucker of the Month insists on cash before unload
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