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Overdrive Radio
Rumble strips ahead: How to manage for downside risk in turbulent trucking times
Gary Buchs and Kevin Rutherford discuss best practices for trucking operations during turbulent times and more. Find something for your business on Overdrive.
September 4, 2020
Partners in Business
Compete with cut-rate carriers by ‘hauling value,’ knowing your numbers, calculating decisions
From 2020's Overdrive's GATS Week last August, owner-operator trucking business coaches Kevin Rutherford and Gary Buchs discussed cost-cutting, key numbers, buying new v. used and more in this session.
August 26, 2020
Business
More than 100K trucking companies leaned on COVID financial aid program
Over 100,000 trucking companies applied for and received over $12 billion in Paycheck Protection Program loans. Learn more about the details on Overdrive.
July 17, 2020
Overdrive Extra
Midyear reset: Get off the treadmill, consider costs, balance sheet
Gary Buchs offers advice on tracking long-term business health for owner-operators. Read his midyear financial suggestions here on Overdrive.
July 15, 2020
Channel 19
With PPP loan terms relaxed, consider these questions to avoid a forgiveness trap
As Paycheck Protection loan terms extend, here's how to avoid a potential loan forgiveness trap, given freight uncertainty for the rest of the year.
June 12, 2020
Voices
POLL: What’s your cost per mile?
Operating costs can vary widely, depending on truck and freight size and weight, regions of operation, routes and many other variables. What’s been your cost per mile/per truck most recently, excluding what you pay yourself and/or a driver?
June 1, 2020
Channel 19
‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Business
New owner-operator edition from Fog Line Software
The Truckn Pro Owner-Operator Edition is designed specifically with the needs of one-truck independents with motor carrier authority and leased owner-operators in mind.
April 13, 2016
Overdrive Radio
One independent’s comeback from the brink: A run with Ted Bowers
A rare opportunity to make part of a run with Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, owner of the small trucking company that bears his name, yields a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships.
March 15, 2016
Business
Teletrac e-log manager platform connects to McLeod LoadMaster
The integration allows for easy review of drivers’ HOS statuses for federally-compliant loads assignments
December 16, 2015
Business
Computing the owner-operator business — Part 2
Part 2 of this series features explores the landscape for web-based models for trucking management software for small fleets and independents — and the mobile integration on the way.
September 21, 2012
Channel 19
TruckBytes founding owner-operator: Software ‘still a great deal’
Channel 19 checks back in with independent owner-operator W. Joel Baker, also a National Guard member and creator of the TruckBytes owner-operator software.
August 11, 2012
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