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Listen: Fairness in DataQs appeals in Minnesota

State patrol Captain Jon Olsen on the appeals-panel model, tips and suggestions for carriers and more. And: Just how disruptive has the Texas weather been this week? An answer from a Laredo-based small fleet coming out of the dark.

February 19, 2021

Left to right - Tennessee State Trooper performing an inspection, a silhouette of a person standing in front of a semi-truck being inspected, and John Olsen in uniform

Back in the saddle again

Former owner-operator Scott Reed is back behind the wheel, this trucking tour as a company driver with Greg Anderson's seven-truck AK Trucking, leased to Woof Trucking out of Yukon, Oklahoma.

February 17, 2021

Scott Reed's 2019 Cummins X15-powered Kenworth W900L

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COVID hours exemption not valid 'just because you're hauling food'

On Overdrive Radio, food for thought via the words of Captain Jon Olsen of the Minnesota State Patrol about qualifying for the COVID hours exemption, and: Episode 5 of the OTR podcast, about family-life sacrifices drivers -- and those back home -- endure.

February 12, 2021

covid-19 restocking emergency bill of lading

Don't forget what they say about double negatives ...

One eagle-eyed owner-operator and grammar enthusiast offers an intriguing object lesson with these no-engine-brakes signs -- and: Still no devices on Canada's ELD registry with mandate deadline five months out.

February 8, 2021

No Engine Braking and Engine Braking signs with red slashes through them

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Best nanner pudding on I-75 -- and this 1980 KW, restored

Each of the independent truck stops profiled in this funny, moving southbound podcast caper claim to be the first to have advertised the special on the CB decades ago. Also: A new build in this custom-restored rig with Dustbusters in Wyoming.

February 5, 2021

Dustbusters owner Craig Prete standing next to Austin Oliver, Kipp Knight, Cole Potter, and Martin Herman in front of Prete's 1980 Kenworth W900A

Tax strategy -- to depreciate or not to depreciate major maintenance?

Equipment improvements present a variety of options as it relates to tax strategy around expensing and depreciation. Depending on your income situation, you could be well served by spreading deductions over years.

February 4, 2021

Swapping out an engine on a semi-truck

Evel Knievel's Mack haul rig, restored

For Overdrive's 60th anniversary, take a run back through the half-decade-long journey of a famous Mack from weeds in a Florida yard to a fully custom-restored museum showpiece in Topeka, Kan., as covered in Overdrive.

February 1, 2021

Evel Knievel's Mack truck and trailer after restoration

ELD's 'no monthly fee' promotion highlights relative market void

There are just a handful of no-monthly-fee options for ELD rule-compliant e-logs left standing. The service priority for many truckers in the choice of platform is a big reason for that. Also: The cabovers come out at night!

January 28, 2021

Cabover K100 Aerodynes

Meet the driver of Evel Knievel's former haul rig

This latest in Overdrive's 60th anniversary series takes a look at one intersection of the business magazine and U.S. popular culture with the 1973 story on one of the most famous people on the planet at the time, the daredevil and sometime truck driver.

January 25, 2021

Truck driver Mike Draper behind the wheel

Highway hack: High value in a 'parts truck'

Long-term, having a spare 'parts truck' could save you both money and time hunting down replacement parts if you're like owner-op Zach Beadle, with a 1976 Peterbilt COE. His parts donor has saved him with these four jobs and more.

January 20, 2021

Zach Beadle standing next to his Pete Wilson combo

'WTF' stresses service for long-term success

Watch This Freight's owner Jesse McGinness has purchased the first Class 8 in his 11-unit otherwise hotshot fleet. A black-rimmed flattop 2021 389 spec'd for heavy haul wasn't part of his five-year plan when he launched the company four years ago.

January 14, 2021

2021 Peterbilt 389 with Landoll trailer

SBA auditing truckers' insurance in wake of pandemic disaster loans: Two owners' stories

If you're one of the untold number of owner-operators who took an SBA disaster loan in the spring of 2020, last month you may well have been contacted to verify insurance -- how two operators dealt with it (one smoothly, one not so much).

January 12, 2021

Lance Buttermore's 2015 Kenworth t680 hauling military machinery

Look back at Junior Elmore's classic 1970s rigs

Another blast from the past for Overdrive's 60th anniversary -- trucker-photographer Don Christner's discovery of the boneyard of retired small fleet owner Junior Elmore contains plenty diamonds in the rough.

January 11, 2021

Junior Elmore’s Marmon caught Christner's eye right off for a very simple reason: 'I’d never seen a Marmon cabover in the flesh before,' he wrote. 'Up close, it’s easy to see why a Marmon cabover was used in the movie 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' as the Autobot Optimus Prime. Elmore’s Marmon COE #31 HDT-BC-86 was Manufactured 03/1977 in Garland, Texas. This is a complete truck with no parts taken off. Still running when parked in 1999. A good honest work truck that’s nicely spec’d out.' Find more details, and history, via this link.

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Trucking with authority and other reasons ‘Why we drive’ — OTR rewind No. 2

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, an update on the last couple of years' push toward one featured trucker's new authority as an owner-operator, and much more.

January 7, 2021

Meet Kenyette Godhigh-Bell, shown here behind the wheel of her 2017 Freightliner Cascadia — you heard that right — Godhigh-Bell is a company driver no more.

A tragic postscript to a tough year: Remembering Liam Salmon

Owner-operator Howard Salmon's son passed on December 31 after battling DIPG, a rare pediatric brain tumor.

January 4, 2021

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Brass tacks, bad brokers, big loads to count down the hours with a long run into 2021

Business brass tacks, bad brokers, big loads -- and plenty more in this year-in-review in audio. Join us to listen in with Overdrive Radio to ring in 2021.

December 31, 2020

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Germann Soeth’s 1976 Kenworth K100, in service after long retirement

Owner-operator Soeth spent three years in off-time working on this vintage K100, nearing working order in the nick of time when his main truck broke down.

December 30, 2020

Germann Trucking 1976 Kenworth K100

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Back to the ‘Biggest Tailgate in Trucking’ — and Germann Soeth’s 1976 KW K100

The coproduction of Overdrive and Radiotopia brought the reality of working haulers to all audiences. Plus: Germann Soeth's restored 1976 Kenworth K100.

December 23, 2020

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Semi trucks parked at Pilot gas station pumps

Independents worry fuel prices will keep rising

After seeing diesel costs rise steadily since fall, more than half of Overdrive survey respondents with operating authority expect their biggest percentage cost increase this year to come from fuel.

Man eating inside restaurant

Truck stop is part of Alaska's backcountry history

The independent trucker we will not go away protest sign

Owner-ops aren't company drivers for a reason

Trooper at computer watching truck cross scales inspections

Roadcheck: Do blitz announcements do any good?

Garmin dēzl™ OTR1000 10" GPS Truck Navigator

Garmin dēzl™ OTR1000 10" GPS Truck Navigator

Owner-ops aren't company drivers for a reason

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The Business Manual for Owner-Operators

Overdrive editors and ATBS present the industry’s best manual for prospective and committed owner-operators. You’ll find exceptional depth on many issues in the 2021 edition of Partners in Business.

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