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Comparing costs — and strategies to profit, ultimately
A recent Overdrive poll showed owner-ops' wide range costs-per-mile. Find out how calculating and comparing fixed and variable costs can help your profits here.
June 10, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Transparency in high demand, though seldom formally sought from this broker: Part 2 with Paul Berman
In this Overdrive Radio episode, East Coast Transport's Logistics VP discusses potential new requirements related to freight-transaction transparency, and more.
June 4, 2020
Channel 19
Resource for local curfews and road closures, and a piece of beauty in an unexpected place
If you can avoid a crowd's venture into an interstate, take every available opportunity: resources for timely info here. And: A KW at the end of the rainbow.
June 1, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Transparency, history, strategy from the other side of the fence with a food-industry broker — part 1
Hear longtime broker and former owner-operator Paul Berman on history and strategy trucking, spot market evolution, bad actors exposed by the recent crisis.
May 29, 2020
Channel 19
Trucking insurance agent to hotshot trucker — the curious case of Steve Libertore
Also on Overdrive: Shifting shopping/equipment auction volume via a fast-rising freight index, one broker's late-model equipment suggestion for the long haul.
May 27, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Sleeper splits toward ‘Knights of the Highway’ reawakening? A talk with ‘Trucker’s Tale’ memoir author Ed Miller
This episode of Overdrive Radio includes retired trucker and author Ed Miller sharing his memoir, "A Truckers Tale"; and truckers' view on hours changes.
May 26, 2020
Channel 19
Three pieces of unsolicited advice for government, for parking providers, for rates negotiators
The USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program for surplus food, negotiating a lowball rate offer and how it stings to pay to stop your truck in a cash pinch.
May 22, 2020
Channel 19
Preventable, or not: How to DataQ for FMCSA’s crash review program
Learn more about things to consider during the DataQ process of submitting a review through the FMCSA's crash preventability determination program here.
May 20, 2020
Channel 19
New partnership harnesses factoring, freight tools
The partnership will offer Trucker Tools' predictive freight load matching in OTR Capital's customer portal, among various support tools. Details on Overdrive.
May 19, 2020
Overdrive Radio
D.C. protests, broker transparency, hours changes and more with independent Bryan Hutchens
From D.C. demonstrators to hours of service changes, owner-operator Bryan Hutchens voices his opinions about it all on this edition of Overdrive Radio.
May 15, 2020
Channel 19
New tools toward broker transaction transparency, truck stop amenities status
Trimble's a new interactive 'COVID-19 Safe Havens' status map for truck-stop locations and OOIDA's template for broker transaction details review request.
May 13, 2020
Channel 19
Study urges TxDOT to advocate for truck parking needs across its many major corridors
The multi-year research project shows truck parking issues in the state, as well as ways to address them. Learn more about TxDOT's study here on Overdrive.
May 12, 2020
Channel 19
Cap those broker margins? Readers sound off, and one broker moves to do it himself
Despite a majority in favor of a cap, critics of any regulation limiting pricing were more vocal than the majority. Read more here on Overdrive.
May 8, 2020
Channel 19
‘Truckers & Troubadours’, and drive-in-movie night at Riteload headquarters
This new song from folk-country leading light Mary Gauthier is a cowrite with Jim Darden and ... none other than Overdrive's own Paul Marhoefer.
May 6, 2020
Channel 19
With rates ‘nowhere near sustainable’ for independent truckers, debate stirs over ‘re-regulating’
Owner-operators at D.C. demonstrations, others discuss the potential need to evaluate regulation-free pricing in the trucking. Read more here on Overdrive.
May 5, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Words to truck by: ‘You will never, ever come out ahead running at a loss’
Independent owner-operators Daniel and Phyllis Snow of Snow Trucking discuss market deterioration, fallen freight volumes, and more. Listen here on Overdrive.
May 1, 2020
Channel 19
Some carriers rewarding leased/company haulers, where it counts
Some trucking companies are paying truck drivers hazard bonus pay for continuing to drive during the coronavirus pandemic. Hear from the drivers on Overdrive.
April 28, 2020
Custom Rigs
Good time to work on the truck … And: States’ contractor unemployment programs standing up
Owner-operator Bill Ater's nontheless productive month-plus off the road -- "I won't haul freight for nothing," he said, ready to go when profitable opportunities return.
April 24, 2020
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