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Pride & Polish
Dawn of a new era: Pride & Polish, 24/7/365
The annual Overdrive's Pride & Polish virtual truck show is ending, but the legacy and competitive spirit lives on with the merge of Overdrive's weekly Custom Rigs video series and website section under the Pride & Polish name. More details here.
June 17, 2026
Keep tuned to the Custom Rigs playlist on our Youtube channel for this new branding near the starting line for each featured video moving ahead.
Overdrive Radio
Spec the truck to the job: Owner-op Ron Schreiner's turn to oilfield work
Schreiner’s current business reboot sees him following his own best pieces of advice for all manner of new-to-the-business owners. Namely, find the right used truck for the job you’ll be doing. His personal experience attests after initial purchase of a Pete 386 whose rear suspension wasn't quite up to his oilfield work.
June 15, 2026
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Overdrive Extra
Gord Magill's war: New book charts trucking's 'technocratic takeover'
Former trucker Magill's "End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers" offers a dystopian vision of American trucking today. Regulators would do well to pause over the author's personal story, driven from the industry he once loved by an ELD.
June 12, 2026
The book's available in audiobook via Audible at this link.
Channel 19
FMCSA's new authority counts fall to zero after Motus? Not quite
FMCSA's Motus registration overhaul has caused a ton of confusion, but still thousands of DOT and MC numbers have successfully been processed.
June 10, 2026
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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
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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
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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
Terrible Herbst Wreck
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
Do you remember this press conference from October? If so, you're smarter than half of the mainstream media.
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
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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
Rates Gold Rush
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
Robert 'Rocket' Miceli hauls heavy and specialized freight with this 2004 Peterbilt 379. This photo was taken when he picked up the Hitachi excavator stolen while his truck was in the shop for an engine repair.
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
Tia
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
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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
Hacker Gloves On Keyboard Id Fraud Trucker Reading Phone
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
Inspection Barn Trucks Lined Up
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
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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
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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
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Regulations
Codifying ELP rule could put 9K more drivers OOS: FMCSA
Just more than a year since the English proficiency requirement returned to out-of-service treatment at roadside, FMCSA proposed to codify OOS orders for ELP violations, including the recent tightening of border-zone violations. Accompanying analysis estimates an annual 9K more drivers OOS as a result.
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Overdrive Extra
'Right thing to do': Small fleet owner-op Elton Wek's lifetime trucking, still rolling
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Pride & Polish
'Dark Horse' Peterbilt 589 boasts intricate detail, 'ghost stripe'
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Parking
Inside Truck Parking Club's complicated relationship to Super Ego, property owners
Aeb Breakdown On Highway Edit
Partners in Business
Dashcams, ELDs, data: Save on insurance, in more ways than one
Overdrive Radio
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