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Life
Owner-operator hauls hope to disaster-stricken regions
Paul Leicht, an owner-operator leased to Christenson Transportation out of Strafford, Missouri, felt a calling in 2005 after seeing the devastation along the Gulf Coast of Hurricane Katrina and wanted to use his truck to help those in need.
November 14, 2018
Business
Rates and volumes way up in the spot market
Any owner-operators shutting down this week in protest of the electronic logging device mandate might have missed some of the best freight and rate conditions on the spot market that have been seen in the past several years. Updates for dry van, flatbed, based on last week’s data.
October 6, 2017
Business
Spot market tightens, with rates moving accordingly on several lanes for vans, reefers
Capacity has been tight on the spot market, volumes heavy. Nationally, there are more loads available than there were before Hurricane Harvey, and recovery efforts after Irma have led to soaring van rates on lanes heading into Florida. More snapshots on hot and cold lanes, markets and more here.
September 21, 2017
Business
Giving a little trucker love back to Texas
Chronicling a haul of donated hay to Southeastern Texas in the wake of Hurrican Harvey, under the power of driver Jerry Novak’s Ohio-based rig: “This isn’t just the way Americans are supposed to act, it’s the way human beings are supposed to act, and it’s uplifting and humbling to do a story about it.”
September 15, 2017
Business
Spot update shows high demand across the country — vans, flats in detail, disaster-relief opportunities, more
Freight lanes re-orient North-South as demand picture shifts for dry vans. Some platform opportunity exists, notes FEMA contractor Foxhole Logistics, and in general terms the typical late-September-beginning fall freight season may be getting an early start.
September 14, 2017
Business
Spot market update: Harvey ripple effects, lookback on dry van demand through 2017 so far
The demand map for the dry van segment continued to be on the darker, truck-favorable side in the last week, part of a somewhat uncommon trend in the spot market for this time of year. Run through the shifting sands of van demand so far this year in a video, and more in this week’s update.
September 1, 2017
Overdrive Radio
On a Hurricane Harvey relief mission with owner-operator Bill Ater
Landstar-leased owner-operator Bill Ater had his “feet in the starting blocks, hands on the floor” and was “waiting on the starting shot” when we talked Tuesday, August 29, for this Overdrive Radio podcast, staged in South Texas for relief shuttles associated with Hurricane Harvey.
August 31, 2017
Business
Truckers for Texas
Kicking off this Saturday is the “Truckers for Texas” initiative, an online fund drive for those in the path of Hurricane Harvey, with performances by Bill Weaver, Tony Justice, Jayne Denham, Terrance Mathis and more…
August 30, 2017
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