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Channel 19
Comparing costs â and strategies to profit, ultimately
A recent Overdrive poll showed owner-ops' wide range costs-per-mile. Find out how calculating and comparing fixed and variable costs can help your profits here.
June 10, 2020
Business
ATBSâ income benchmarking-data call
September 12, ATBS, the nationâs largest tax and business services firm dedicated to owner-operator businesses, is hosting a conference call and online presentation to present a variety of data toward answering the question, âHas 2019 been significantly worse for owner-operators?â
August 30, 2019
Business
Operatorsâ second quarter per-mile income defies slowdown
Even with the downturn thatâs affected the freight market since late 2018, owner-operators saw a marked increase in net income per mile during the second quarter of 2019. Thatâs according to averages from thousands of owner-operator clients tracked by ATBS, a financial services provider.
August 28, 2019
Business
Airbnb for under-utilized trucks?: The âCOOP by Ryderâ short-term-rental platform
Trailers, too. Marco Ardila of Florida-based Firstway Logistics Trucking, an 11-truck fleet, has been among those utilizing the new platform where owners can list their vehicles on the digital platform, set vehicle availability for idle periods, and upon vehicle return receive guaranteed payments from Ryder.
January 28, 2019
Channel 19
The feast or famine of owner-operator income, in good times and bad
With greater risk comes greater reward â and potential for loss. Some results from Overdriveâs recent compensation survey bear out the truism, with the largest shares of owner-ops at top and bottom rungs of the income ladder. Respondentsâ thoughts on market performance and income through 2018, too, show a similar dynamic.
June 26, 2018
Channel 19
How many people are affected by the One20 F-ELDâs shuttering?
Owner-op Jerry Allen expresses his thoughts on how the One F-ELD shuttering was handled. He wonders how many others went through something similar. Have you?
June 18, 2018
Overdrive Extra
What is your time worth?
âHow many of us, if asked, could accurately quote what our time is worth, per hour, based on actual and complete data? No emotion, no pie in the sky guessing, just the cold hard facts.â Gary Buchs on numbers analysis toward establishing per-hour rates for healthy profit.
April 3, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Podcast special edition: Lay of the land for owner-ops, by the numbers again with ATBSâ Todd Amen
This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features audio from ATBS President Todd Amenâs March 20 conference call for owner-operators outlining annual mileage, revenue and income averages from 2017, among other metrics, for segments among its clients â with a look ahead through this year.
March 20, 2018
Channel 19
â100 percent OKâ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
âDonât leave money on the table,â redux â that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your businessâ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Voices
âDonât work more for lessâ is reader Tom Hallâs message on hours, ELDs
âA specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will âhaul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'â âTom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.
January 16, 2018
Channel 19
âHereâs to causing a crisisâ: Is there a shutdown going on?
Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, whoâs closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour ruleâs inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.
January 12, 2018
Business
2017 owner-operator income: Flatbedding hot, reefer hauling chilly
Checking in on owner-operator income through the first half of the year: Flat to down for most segments, with flatbed gaining momentum and reefer haulers losing ground. Here are the numbers for 2017âs first half.
August 11, 2017
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