Jan. 31, 2008

Mike O’Cordan hauls with this 2002
Peterbilt 379 extended hood.

Keeping track of your success (and misses) on the road is vital, and to do that, you need a profit and loss statement. It’s the scorecard of your business performance. Generated monthly, this statement measures your financial progress by employing a basic formula of revenue minus expenses equals profit.

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FEB. 7-9: MID-WEST TRUCK SHOW, Peoria Civic Center, Peoria, Ill., www.midwesttruckers.com/truckshow.html
FEB. 20-22: CLEAN HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLE CONFERENCE, Hilton San Diego Resort, www.calstart.org
MARCH 27-29: MID-AMERICA TRUCKING SHOW, Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, Ky., http://truckingshow.com
MAY 10-11: U.S. TRUCK RALLY, Interstate Center, Bloomington, Ill., www.ustruckrally.com
JUNE 26-28: GREAT WEST TRUCK SHOW, Las Vegas, www.truckshow.com
AUG. 21-23: GREAT AMERICAN TRUCKING SHOW, Dallas Convention Center, www.gatsonline.com

Don’t miss our February 2008 issue. Featured stories that can help you improve your business and your life as an owner-operator include:

If you kill someone. Even if your exonerated by police and courts in a wreck that kills someone, grief and reget can greatly impact your life and business. We offer tips on how to cope with the greatest of tragedies.

New
Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer
Know your costs? Compute the potential profit in any truckload, analyze per-day and per-mile breakouts, and compare real offers on multiple loads or game out hypothetical rate/lane scenarios. Enter your trucking business's fixed and variable costs, and load information, to get started.
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EGR. 2010 — with a new EPA-mandated standard for engines — is just around the corner. We offer a preview of what’s to come.

And…

2008 Trucker of the Year. We profile our selection of the year’s top driver, culled from our Truckers of the Month featured in 2007.

Overdrive is now available in digital format

To stay ahead of the competition, owner-operators need current information about their industry immediately. To provide you with the resources to make your job easier, Overdrive magazine now is available in a digital format. A link to our digital edition will be sent to your inbox each month and will contain all of the content of the printed version of Overdrive – plus easy-to-use links to related information, as well as ready access job information. Also, digital edition back issues of the magazine will be just a click away. Don’t miss out!

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