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POLL: Have you considered — or followed through on — moving beyond a single truck?
For many owner-operators, the possibility of expansion beyond one truck is a common goal — have you ever considered building beyond the one truck, or actually followed through on such a plan?
February 4, 2019
Voices
Assessing the ‘hard market’ for liability insurance
Premium increases in the past year have followed increasingly difficult conditions for insurers, watchers note, for a variety of factors. 10 percent might be a good rough average for independents and small fleets. At once, it’s not hard to find contrary examples on either side of that 10 percent among readers.
January 29, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Growing pains of small trucking: Midnight Xpress on blown motors, hiring mistakes and more
In the half-year since we first talked with Midnight Xpress co-owner Andre Jackson for the Overdrive Radio podcast, small fleet expansion plans continue to be implemented, though they’ve shifted with a breakdown of the first truck Jackson and partners added, among other issues — including hiring mistakes made.
January 18, 2019
Business
Strick Trailers adds production line
Strick Trailers has expanded its Monroe, Indiana, manufacturing facility by adding a 44,000-square-foot production line dedicated to “the unique characteristics of its custom trailer business,” the company says.
November 1, 2017
Business
Keeping the small fleet ‘family’ happy: Pay, equipment, home time
Small-fleet owners use good pay, equipment and home time to attract loyal drivers. They say those are the bedrocks of retention, the top employment issue named in a recent Overdrive survey.
October 3, 2016
Voices
POLL: Small fleets, which comes first — the driver or the truck?
For those among readers who’ve owned more than one truck, this poll asks a question relative to views on expansion strategy: Best to buy a truck to fit a dependable driver or the converse, focus on hiring only as needed to utilize equipment?
March 10, 2016
Channel 19
Reader to truck stops: Better optimize, expand parking space; And an eats tip in AL
“There’s nothing worse than after a long hard day’s driving to pull into a truck stop and find full spaces taken up with just a tractor or an RV.” –Rick Fine, Pueblo, Colo.
August 6, 2014
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
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
Business
Mack expands natural gas lineup to long-haul trucks
Mack Trucks recently announced a 2013 expansion of natural gas-powered products in the latest versions of its Pinnacle and Granite models. Both models will use the Cummins Westport ISX12, and customer testing is scheduled to begin this year. The expansion adds to a list of natural-gas powered models already offered in the Mack TerraPro Low […]
June 12, 2012
Overdrive Extra
New service space at Nebraska Pete dealer
The folks at South Dakota / Nebraska / Iowa-based four-dealer network Sioux City Truck Sales (pbtruck.com) shared this photo with us of construction, now completed, of a new nearly 7,400-square-foot addition to the Peterbilt of Norfolk (Nebraksa) building. Eight new service bays, with a wash bay and some additional parts storage space included, have been […]
April 24, 2012
Channel 19
Calling all independents; New profile series seeks nominations
Are you an owner-operator running with your own authority? A two-three-truck fleet owner with a unique approach to trucking success? If you’ve been following Overdrive Dollars & Sense columnist and radio host Kevin Rutherford’s columns over the past couple months, you know he’s gotten into a series about taking your business to the next level […]
July 25, 2011
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