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Get your 2025 Highway Report Card: Worst roads, state DOTs, parking deserts

Overdrive readers graded the 48 continental United States for highway maintenance and expansion, congestion pressure and parking infrastructure, reporting broken suspensions, blown-out tires, high fees and aggressive ticketing from the worst of the worst.

Overdrive Small Fleet Champ for 2025 in the 3-10 Truck Division, Wes Oberman of Oberman Logistics, is among a growing number of owners utilizing telematics-data enagement in tandem with his leased owner-operators to help keep the record clean and costs in line.

ELD-data engagement: Your insurance premiums could depend on it

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‘No evidence’ non-domiciled CDLs bad for safety: Lawsuit to block DOT's new rule

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Brokers, parking, emissions regs: Owner-ops' top trucking concerns

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Let our deep industry knowledge become your data-driven insights

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JBL Live Beam 3 - Slim, sleek, and impossibly modern earbuds and Smart Charging Case - Audio Evolution You Can See and Hear

Compute the potential profit in any truckload, access per-day and per-mile breakouts with Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer

Compute the potential profit in any truckload, access per-day and per-mile breakouts with Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer

Overdrive's Partners in Business - The leading business training program for owner-operators.

Overdrive's Partners in Business - The leading business training program for owner-operators.

Drivers, do you support DOT's move against 200,000 non-domiciled CDLs?

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'Be the best': Lofty goals successfully executed define owner-op John Treadway's trucking career

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TFX, Oberman come out on top: Overdrive's 2025 Small Fleet Champs

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Highway Report Card Overdrive Crop

Get your 2025 Highway Report Card: Worst roads, state DOTs, parking deserts

I-80 WB tunnel reopening months after fatal crash | Diesel prices jump 10 cents

ELD-data engagement: Your insurance premiums could depend on it

‘No evidence’ non-domiciled CDLs bad for safety: Lawsuit to block DOT's new rule

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'Be the best': Lofty goals successfully executed define owner-op John Treadway's trucking career

Tesla Semi production on track for 2026 | $17M worth of cocaine found under truck's hidden trap door

Rebuilt 2002 Pete 379 dump truck a father's tribute to late son

Pride, Class, 50-plus remarkable rigs: Owners honored in Pete parade

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Congressmen to DOT: 'CDL mills' probe should be high priority

I-90 WB closed in Washington | New ELP bill would require proficiency test for CDLs, renewals

California illegally issued non-domiciled CDL to Jashanpreet Singh days before I-10 crash: DOT

Southern California 'Singh Organization' cargo theft ring busted

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Overdrive Small Fleet Champ for 2025 in the 3-10 Truck Division, Wes Oberman of Oberman Logistics, is among a growing number of owners utilizing telematics-data enagement in tandem with his leased owner-operators to help keep the record clean and costs in line.

ELD-data engagement: Your insurance premiums could depend on it

More and more, insurers work with small fleets and owner-ops' ELD systems to capture telematics data as a window on driving behavior, with potential to save on insurance costs. Engaging with the data yourself could be revealing about your own or your drivers' habits, noted one small fleet consultant, presenting opportunity to actively improve.

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