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Business: Page 22
Starting Line
The costs, broader considerations to keep in mind when leasing to a carrier
For any owner-operator, it's expensive to switch carriers, so keep these things in mind if you're in the market for a new business partner to lease to.
January 1, 2025
Overdrive Radio
4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio
A small fleet owner builds direct business after getting burned by a broker to a concert tour-haul run with country-rock legends, plenty in the way of biz advice borne of experience, and so much more: Overdrive Radio's 2024 in review.
December 31, 2024
Channel 19
Overdrive's top 10 trucking stories of 2024
The Ice Pick Bandit, broker transparency and other regs, middlemen acting crazy, marijuana laws changing, Trump taking back the White House. ... Which was the most important story in trucking in 2024?
December 31, 2024
Business
Finance-crimes network's reporting requirement halted again in court
The Corporate Transparency Act's implementation was again halted on appeal, in yet another flip-flop ruling. That means small biz, including owner-operator LLCs, do not need to report ownership info to Treasury.
December 10, 2024
Business
Cost of congestion tops $100 billion annually, nearly $8k per truck
Traffic congestion cost the trucking industry 1.2 billion hours and $108.8 billion.
December 18, 2024
Business
Transparency enforcement 'bad for shippers, brokers and carriers': DAT's Ken Adamo
In theory, broker transparency could give away the game for freight middlemen and incentivize small trucking companies and shippers to work together. But Adamo plans to weigh in against the FMCSA's rule in official comments. Here's his argument.
December 20, 2024
Trucker of the Year
Meet the finalists for Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year honor
Nearing the conclusion of Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year award program, judges laud 10 Truckers of the Month and name three finalists for the ultimate win, to be announced in the new year.
December 20, 2024
Regulations
Mountain ELD, XELD revoked by FMCSA
These are the two latest ELDs to be removed from the list of certified devices by FMCSA. Also: Trucking conditions saw positive turn in October; Clean Freight Coalition joins call for OEMs to abandon CARB partnership.
December 19, 2024
Regulations
Transparency enforcement could squeeze brokers' margins: Analyst
Do some brokers oppose transparency it because it will hammer their margins? One freight watcher thinks so. Whether the squeeze comes out in favor of carriers or shippers could depend on the market.
December 18, 2024
Business
Diesel hovering around $3.50 as freight rates present a mixed bag
Fuel prices hit a three-year low two weeks ago week before ticking up slightly last week. Meanwhile, rates last week were up and down. Also: New owner-op training course from CarriersEdge; more states opt into Drivewyze in-cab alerts.
December 18, 2024
Regulations
Regulatory update: AEBs, speed limiters, more expected in 2025
A final rule to mandate automatic emergency braking systems is expected in January, a notice of proposed rulemaking to mandate speed limiters is planned for May, and a number of other regulatory moves are expected in the coming months.
December 17, 2024
Business
DAT acquires Trucker Tools | Purple Heart recipient Army vet wins new T680
Stevens Transport driver Cory Troxell won the 2024 Transition Trucking award for the nation's top military veteran rookie truck driver. Also: DAT has acquired Trucker Tools; Heniff acquired a European bulk firm; Good Samaritan trucker returns lost purse.
December 17, 2024
Trucker of the Year
How Trucker of the Year contenders beat 2024's sluggish conditions
This second installment wrapping up 2024's competitive TOTY field shows owners poised for growth in the new year, in plenty more ways than one. Check in with Alec Costerus, Greg Labosky, Mike Nichols and the brothers of Zimmerman Ag.
December 16, 2024
Regulations
Broker transparency: About boosting rates? Or a fight for carrier rights?
A debate between brokers and carriers rages on about what transparency might do to rates, but according to FMCSA and OOIDA, that's not the point. Rather, the issue is carriers' rights.
December 16, 2024
Regulations
New FMCSA guidance on HOS ag exemption, rear impact guard labels
FMCSA clarified that a missing rear impact guard certification label does not warrant a violation. The agency also clarified when an "exempt" ag hauler can receive an HOS violation. Also: Fleet's under-21 waiver request denied; Iowa 80 grant recipients.
December 11, 2024
Overdrive Extra
A freight world without brokers: 'Carriers United' daring to do more than just dream
With time, this small fleet owner aims to build what he calls an "army of carriers" to deliver on goals: namely, to "put money back in the pockets of the carriers" in service to shippers, and relieve drivers of parking fees, tow threats.
December 11, 2024
Regulations
Court rules Rhode Island can reinstate truck tolls -- without daily caps
The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court's ruling that a portion of the RhodeWorks trucks-only toll plan is unconstitutional. Whether tolls will be reinstated without unconstitutional provisions is now a matter of debate.
December 9, 2024
Trucker of the Year
Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 TOTY 'exit interviews'
Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year contenders have battled soft freight and sluggish rates with moves large and small. Here, four contenders map out their experience through the year, delivering insight on business decision-making.
December 9, 2024
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'One thing led to another' for Lacoh Transport's custom 2024 Peterbilt 389 build
What started out as a modest build for a nice working truck turned into an all-out custom transformation by Geis Peterbilt's Cody McCandless. Along the way, "a lot of days that you don’t succeed," McCandless said, "but the challenge has been accepted, and we’re having fun with it.”
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