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DOT opens 2018 UCR filing process after delay, fees reduced
Independent truckers operating one or two trucks will pay $69 this year, down from $76 in 2017. Enforcers are giving carriers 90 days to register before issuing citations.
January 3, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Rearview: Overdrive takes on the Teamsters
From the early 1960s to the early ā80s, rarely did an issue of Overdrive leave the printer without one or more articles accusing the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters of widespread corruption, misuse of truckersā dues and violent bullying tactics aimed at its detractors.
August 3, 2016
Business
House withdraws highway bill amendment that sought to fix damaging measure for independent truckers
A fix to a measure in the Houseās long-term highway bill, which as-is could be harmful to independent truckers and small trucking companies, was pulled from the House floor late Wednesday afternoon.
November 5, 2015
Business
Time to re-regulate the filthy lies
Says Overdrive's Wendy Parker: "It makes my brain hurt to swim in such a swirling abyss of nonsense."
October 15, 2015
Channel 19
New vids from owner-operator/songwriter Howard Salmon
I caught up with Howard Salmon at the TA in downtown Nashville a couple weeks back now ā itād been more than a year since the last time weād been able to meet up, and he had much to tell. His independent trucking business, hauling in a 1999 Kenworth W900 with a reefer and loading [ā¦]
December 26, 2011
Channel 19
A&Eās new āShipping Warsā series trailer vid ā and the operators featured
Thereās a new reality-TV series coming January 10, with back-to-back episodes at 9 and 9:30 p.m., EST and PST, to the A&E network. You may have heard a little about it already here in Overdrive. The trailer vid for the Shipping Wars show is embedded below, and I thought Iād take a moment to introduce [ā¦]
December 21, 2011
Channel 19
Salute: Writer trumpets independent truckers
Colleen Kelly Mellor (pictured) is a 30-year veteran of the classroom with near a decade in real estate. Today sheās a writer who keeps a blog dedicated to items of āencouragement in a difficult worldā at Biddybytes.com. Her husband was a long-haul household-moves owner-operator with Atlas Van Lines with more than a million accident-free miles [ā¦]
December 14, 2011
Channel 19
Setting the pace with owner-operator Henry Albert
Sundayās post on Overdrive 2007 Trucker of the Year Henry Albertās blog caught my eye with what it says about thinking outside the box to ensure success in running an independent business. In the post, Albert visits an old haunt of his, Charlotteās Metrolina speedway (the old grandstands here pictured by Albert), shuttered long since [ā¦]
November 8, 2011
Channel 19
Tanking independent ā Meet owner-operator Dan Bollinger
Hauling in a 2007 Peterbilt 379 (pictured) ā āone of the legacy class editions,ā he says, with a 48-inch flattop sleeper ā 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 companyās [ā¦]
November 6, 2011
Channel 19
How to get ā and keep ā the contract
Success in hauling with your own authority often requires negotiating contracts directly with shippers and keeping those contracts when bigger competitors come prowling. The father-son operation of John and Erick (pictured) Engbarth learned this by experience. Erick makes regular hauls from North Carolina to California loaded with plastics and usually carrying motorcycles back. When Engbarth [ā¦]
October 29, 2011
Channel 19
Friday Channel 19 news round-up: Cross-border trucking; ādriver shortageā; and the 1 on the 53 and the 99
Separate but not equal That separation could be diminishing when it comes to U.S. and Mexican tucking, now that a new pilot program for cross-border long haul is under way. Ā In the wake of the Oct. 21 border ceremony at Laredo, when the first Mexican truck crossed as part of the new cross-border pilot program, [ā¦]
October 28, 2011
Business
Breaking Free: The history of the owner-operator in trucking
From fighting for freedom to haul in its early days to stressing smart business practices later, Overdrive has championed the owner-operatorās concerns. Here, a history of owner-op business, from 1960-2011, with a special request for you.
September 1, 2011
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