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Overdrive Extra
Two owner-operator segments with the best earnings start for 2015
A look at which owner-operator segments are earning the most so far in 2015.
June 16, 2015
Overdrive Extra
Is going independent a fading dream?
An Overdrive poll in late 2013 showed half of our readers believe industry changes have made it more difficult to get your operating authority and be profitable.
May 20, 2014
Electronic Logging Devices
ELD mandate: Independents’ final straw?
An Overdrive survey shows between 50 and 70 percent of respondents threatening to exit the industry over the electronic-log mandate — the highest percentages are among independents/small fleets.
April 17, 2014
Business
MATS New Entrant listening session yields new ideas
Among voluminous thoughts on New Entrant testing, responding to commentary from owner-operator Michael Potwin Anne Ferro revealed that the agency’s plan to downgrade adjudicated citations’ violation weight in the CSA system could be in place as early as this summer.
March 28, 2014
Voices
Poll: Chief attraction of maintaining your own operating authority?
Is it that control over all aspects of the business yields greater cost-saving opportunities, better income (particularly with direct customers), or something else? Tell us what you think here.
November 13, 2013
Voices
Hot Button: What would be the No. 1 effect of a wide owner-operator shutdown?
Opinion on the potential effects resulting from a wide shutdown has varied widely among Overdrive readers — from a solid negative for truckers’ public image to political leverage on regs.
September 27, 2013
Voices
LETTER: Go niche to avoid being the last independent standing
Recently retired owner-operator Mike McRae responds to Overdrive’s May issue with further evidence of where the profits are for independent single-truck businesses.
May 22, 2013
Business
Inconsistent enforcement: CSA vs. the independent
In the two years since CSA’s advent, the smallest carriers have had a much greater chance of getting inspected and put out of service than drivers and trucks of the largest carriers.
March 14, 2013
Channel 19
Manage MCS-150 data for CSA scoring
It’s important for those with carrier authority to keep tabs on their annual self-reported vehicle-miles-traveled and power-unit information for CSA scoring purposes.
January 3, 2013
Channel 19
Former operator’s novel immortalizes trail-blazing independents
Fred Afflerbach didn’t set out to launch a trucking career when he took a job working for a Bekins Van Lines-affiliated moving company in Austin, Texas, in high school in the 1970s. He caught the fever all the same. “The owner-operators would come rolling in and the drivers are telling stories and your eyes are […]
March 13, 2012
Channel 19
Tanking independent — Meet owner-operator Dan Bollinger
Hauling in a 2007 Peterbilt 379 (pictured) — “one of the legacy class editions,” he says, with a 48-inch flattop sleeper — owner-operator Dan Bollinger just got his own authority early this year. He hauls dedicated for a liquid feed supplier to feedlots in Western Kansas, where he lives. Formerly hauling under the feed company’s […]
November 6, 2011
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