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Overdrive Radio
How carrier vetting changed, before and after big SCOTUS ruling
What brokers call "carrier onboarding" has evolved mightily from the process described off the top of this week's Overdrive Radio podcast. Gone are the days of the manila folder file-and-forget approach, that's for certain. How Roar Logistics seeks to work with core carriers here.
July 13, 2026
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Overdrive Extra
The future at 70 mph: AI trucks, because they can, not that we should
With DOT and industry at a full-on sprint to autonomous trucks, what's the point of replacing something that works with something that might work, eventually, if you throw enough money at it? The question emerged on I-40 that time the human team got its doors blown off by test engineers running handsless, with laptops.
July 10, 2026
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Small Fleet Champ
Clifford C. Hay Inc., up from ashes, with new hurdles after crashes: Small Fleet Champ update
After taking over the family biz in 1999 with one truck, Clifford Hay II built well beyond a single unit, showing plenty resiliency and commitment to customers. Hay was a 2025 Small Fleet Champ finalist, and with the 2026 July 31 entry deadline fast approaching, the owner's regrouping after another big hit.
July 9, 2026
Clifford C. Hay Inc., as of July 2026 was on its way back toward six trucks, with four (soon-to-be five) operating on a day-to-day basis. Some of the small fleet's rigs are pictured parked up in front of the fleet's current shop in Cobleskill, New York.
Channel 19
'Verified scam attempt' impersonates TQL, promises dedicated lanes
Scammers evolve, spoofing TQL's phone number and faking emails to offer dedicated lanes, for the low one-time fee of $1,100, or so they say.
July 7, 2026
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Small Fleet Champ
Turnage & Sons' size balancing act with organic bulk milk: Small Fleet Champ update
After growing the fleet to as many as 40 trucks, Robbie Turnage found balance right around 30 trucks to ensure equipment's maintained, drivers and customers taken care of. With time running out before the July 31 Small Fleet Champ entry deadline, the 2025 finalist noted change on that front. He never expected he'd haul milk from the Southeast to California.
July 7, 2026
Milk tanker-hauling Turnage & Sons LLC operates 33 trucks out of Tylertown, Mississippi, moving organic milk from dairies in region out to Georgia, Texas, Florida and elsewhere, even east L.A. in California today. Pictured above, with some of the company's equipment and logo, is father-son duo Robbie (left) and Levi Turnage, representing fourth and fifth generations in milk.
Overdrive Radio
Small Fleet Champ: Last month to enter! And: Meet Mike Singleton, chroncling life OTR
On Overdrive Radio, a personal call to beat the July 31 deadline to compete in Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship, and: Former trucker Mike Singleton's story of OTR inspiration for his "Blacktop Chronicles" ongoing effort to give voice to trials and tribulations of working owners, drivers.
July 6, 2026
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Overdrive Radio
Get prepped for traffic stops, inspections before CVSA 'Safe Driver' week
Overdrive Radio offers up ways to prep for the Operation Safe Driver Week traffic blitz happening July 12-18 nationwide. Hear from enforcers in a state well-known for roadside stops -- No. 11 toughest in Overdrive's nationwide rankings for moving violations.
June 29, 2026
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Overdrive Radio
21M miles on the road to true trucking elite status
Today, an Overdrive salute to Candy "Glitter Granny" Bass, Eddie "Tennessee Trash" Parrish, and Mike "Cow Chip" Brown, all 7M-safe-milers and honored together for the achievement at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Bristol, Tennessee, last month.
June 22, 2026
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Channel 19
$10,000 fines for attempting Vermont's infamous Smuggler's Notch
A new law in Vermont places a $10,000 penalty on drivers/carriers caught attempting the state's infamous Smuggler's Notch, maybe the most difficult route for truckers nationwide.
June 19, 2026
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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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FMCSA cleaning up Motus mess one carrier at a time
Overdrive August Trucker of the Month Jeffrey Crise gets his authority back after Motus-glitch "involuntary suspension," yet the same can't be said for many as case-by-case triage continues.
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Regulations
CDL school fires back after 'emergency shutdown' from FMCSA, White House anti-fraud task force
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Buy now? Truck prices on way up with EPA 2027 emissions
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Pride & Polish
'Brand-new' 1984 Pete 359, for third-gen owner-op David Duncan
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Secretary Duffy calls out ELD cheats for driving down rates
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