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Transflo aims to combat 'app overload' and increase utility for independents in broker relationships
Combine Transflo's Velocity+ platform for brokers with its new (and free) "Lite" mobile app version, and owner-operators have the makings of a mobile back office to manage relationships with multiple brokers, shippers and other carriers.
October 20, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Minority-owned buiness' growing trucking influence
"There's a team of minorities taking this industry by storm," of a fashion, with a growing presence and influence. So noted one of the eight voices in this roundtable, conducted at the SHE Trucking Expo, around business value, new relationships, more.
October 15, 2021
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Tony Justice music video hits a national audience with breast-cancer campaign
The Everhart Transportation driver and songwriter Justice's "War Paint" single's video is part of a collaboration with the Susan G. Komen foundation around breast cancer awareness and fund-raising for research toward a cure.
October 12, 2021
Overdrive Radio
A window on a special program – hear the owner-ops of the year, in their own words
Hear the full program celebrating winners in Company Driver and Owner-Operator of the Year competitions with a gala capping TCA's conference last week. Also in this podcast: our Talent Search winners' performances, for Overdrive Radio listeners.
October 8, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Here are your Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists, and NASTC's 'America's Best Drivers'
November will be a busy month for accolades in the wake of owner-op and company driver of the year honors at TCA last week. NASTC's 'America's Best Drivers' team is here, and our Small Fleet Champ finalists will join them for recognition November 4-6.
October 5, 2021
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Introducing relatively new trucking-focused TNC Radio online network, with trucker Tom Kyrk
Longtime driver Tom Kyrk in this Overdrive Radio edition speaks to his involvement in the TNC Radio network, gearing itself to the intersection between pro four-wheeled drivers and all of you, Class 8 owners and drivers, with news and entertainment.
October 1, 2021
Channel 19
An edge on growth: One way small fleets stand to benefit from vax mandate
Could Biden's vax mandate enhance the competitive edge for small fleets? If the pandemic's past suggests anything about the near future, fleets of under 100 trucks have added roughly 176K units by this analysis, while larger businesses added just 25K.
September 30, 2021
Overdrive Radio
The big reveal: Prize interior renovation | More on COVID hours waiver
Owner-operator Debbie Desiderato on bottom-line business impacts likely from her TransFix My Rig sweepstakes win, after custom work by Jason Cameron. Also: FMCSA's input on COVID hours of service waiver's reporting requirement, more.
September 24, 2021
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Scenes from first-annual SHE Trucking Expo in Tennessee
The first in-person convention of SHE Trucking drew hundreds to Chattanooga for a wide array of talks and workshops, an impressively diverse exhibit floor, plenty of fellowship and networking, and much more.
September 20, 2021
Overdrive Radio
How the COVID hours waiver could disentangle HOS rigidity
Strong views from Andrea Marks of the Trucker Nation advocacy group on the opportunities embedded within the long extensions of FMCSA's COVID-emergency-related waivers – and the dangers lurking in the latest changes as of September 1.
September 17, 2021
Channel 19
Looking back on 9/11's lasting trucking legacy
This retrospective on trucking history post-9/11 comes on the occasion of the 20th anniversary. While impacts of that event are impossible to exhaustively chronicle, Overdrive found shifts in security protocols, driver camaraderie, freight, and more.
September 13, 2021
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Docmenting the 'Faces of the Road' with Long Haul Paul
Any retrospective on Overdrive's recent history would be incomplete without Paul Marhoefer's contributions to the magazine's multi-author "Overdrive Extra" blog with his "Faces of the Road" series of dynamic close-ups, delivering living history.
September 6, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Trucker Talent Search podcast preview
On Overdrive Radio, we'll hear from trucker Mike Sheffield of Kentucky, Michigan-based Grassmid driver Rich Scripps, and Dayton, Ohio's Guy Archer, all in conversation, too, with the great Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio. Take a listen here.
September 3, 2021
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A newly reconditioned 'Duel' 1960 Peterbilt 351 makes debut next week
Check out the work put into Brad Wike's 1960 Pete 351 and tanker used in the 1971 'Duel' film at the Southern Classic Truck Show next week. Also: The men and women of Truckers Feeding the Homeless are conducting outreach/support in Houston October 1-3.
September 1, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Five owners, five forecasts for biz growth
At last month's SuperRigs event, News Editor Matt Cole asked these five owners – from OTR heavy haul to local-regional fuel delivery – to forecast the next five years. Growth is coming and prospects are bright for small trucking, despite headwinds.
August 27, 2021
Channel 19
Out-of-service brake adjustment: More detail on how violations work at roadside
A bit of a clarification of the 20% rule following last week's podcast report, and: owner-operator Howard Salmon, after nearly two years away from the road during his son's cancer battle, jumps back on the horse with new perspective. ...
August 25, 2021
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Eye candy, business advice: Overdrive's top 25 custom-rigs vids
Marking Overdrive's sixth decade in existence, here's a compilation in one handy spot of the most-watched equipment-forward videos we've done since our Pride & Polish vid collection in 2015.
August 23, 2021
Overdrive Radio
In-depth refresher on the 20% rule for out-of-service brake adjustment violations
In this podcast, a former inspector and compliance consultant details just how the out-of-service criteria around brakes adjustment work. A lot depends on knowing your chamber type and stroke length to effectively test your brakes to avoid violations.
August 20, 2021
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Strong freight, rates environment expected to last through 2022
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