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Owner-operators logged four strong quarters before the bottom fell out
As the coronavirus began to shut down most of the economy, owner-operators were able to stay on the road and maintain earnings. Details here on Overdrive.
May 11, 2020
Voices
POLL: Do you employ a factoring company for collections assistance?
Factoring has been on the rise over the course of the last decade, per Overdrive’s prior reporting, though payment speed has to, as a general rule. How often do you use a factoring, if at all? Weigh in here.
May 8, 2020
Channel 19
Some carriers rewarding leased/company haulers, where it counts
Some trucking companies are paying truck drivers hazard bonus pay for continuing to drive during the coronavirus pandemic. Hear from the drivers on Overdrive.
April 28, 2020
Voices
POLL: Leased/company haulers, is your fleet offering a ‘COVID pay’ bonus?
There’ve been calls for taxpayer-funded hazard benefits for the nation’s truckers in the halls of Congress, and likewise reports of fleets large and small offering bonuses to working company drivers and leased owner-ops through this uncertain time. Is your fleet one of them?
April 21, 2020
Channel 19
1099 company drivers? Don’t need an ‘ABC test’ for that
Want to cut the skirting of self-employment tax, enhance employee protections offered by workers comp and unemployment insurance required of most bona fide employers? Enforcing previous, more nuanced independent contractor tests on the books should do that job just as well as any so-called ‘ABC test.’
January 29, 2020
Voices
POLL: Will California’s A.B. 5 contractor law directly affect your business?
California-based leased owner-operators, or those who haul into California, do you know at this point how the state’s A.B. 5 independent contractor law is going to affect your operation? Too early to say? Still mulling options? Weigh in here.
November 13, 2019
Voices
POLL: Ever filed on a broker’s bond over nonpayment on an intrastate load?
We’ve seen more than one instance of late on in-a-single-state moves where surety-bond claims after a broker’s nonpayment come back invalid, uncovered — to say nothing of the same on loads of exempt commodities. What’s been your experience filing on bonds for intrastate loads, such as it may be?
October 24, 2019
Overdrive Radio
VP undercover in a large carrier’s training program; Voices From 10-4 D.C.
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, the story of C.R. England VP Pam Wilson’s undercover assignment, which began her company employment, as a new driver in the company’s training program with an eye toward improving the new-driver experience; and: voices from 10-4 D.C.
October 11, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Why do drivers leave? Pay has a lot to do with it, but …
Many are quick to say it is a driver-pay problem, but that’s not all. In trucking companies’ rush to grow, they devalue the freight market, notes owner-operator Clifford Petersen, and in doing so trade their pricing power in favor of a questionable status quo where driver time itself is devalued.
September 20, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Though fleets churn through drivers, there’s no evidence of ‘driver shortage,’ says DOL economist
Driver turnover is persistently high, and carriers have trouble filling seats. But that doesn’t mean there’s a shortage of those willing to drive a truck, says DOL economist Kristen Monaco. She penned a report in March painting the “driver shortage” as a myth — and tiffed ATA in the process…
September 12, 2019
Voices
Not ‘engaged to wait’ while in the sleeper? Readers respond to federal labor opinion on driver compensation
More readers than not agreed with commenter Jason McCarter that, “if you are in your truck at any time, you should be paid,” even if off-duty in the sleeper. Find other views, including those contrary, in this round-up of voices with poll results about sleeper time and pay for employee drivers.
August 8, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Trying to measure the owner-operator earnings premium
There’s more than one way to calculate the difference between company driver and owner-operator income.
August 2, 2019
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