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Walcott show report: What can you learn from a truck-show recharge?
Our own Gary Buchs narrates Day One of the Walcott Truckers Jamboree, where generally upbeat owners delivered beautiful working rigs, plenty pride, and commitment to the culture of ownership. "In this country, I don't see us ever losing that drive."
July 15, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Two show-ready rigs -- and owners -- moving toward retirement in style
The diligence it requires to set yourself up to leave the road isn't exactly easily achievable, to say the least. Yet this well-matched pair of owner-ops have prepared better than many, set to ride out their last half-decade in two custom 389s.
July 8, 2022
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Custom Rigs
The young career -- and custom 2015 Peterbilt 389 -- of owner-op Tony Gonzalez
Gonzalez grew up around the business of his longtime owner-operator father, after whom he's named and from whom he purchased the rig, his first. Catch plenty of views via this video, likewise more from a man clearly loving his time OTR as an owner.
July 7, 2022
Channel 19
AB 5 contractor law: California small fleets, owner-ops take stock
Opinions vary on whether California fleets' business-to-business relationships with longtime owner-operators in de facto exclusive partnerships can survive AB 5, yet it's not hard to find measures of confidence owner-op contracting models will survive.
July 4, 2022
Custom Rigs
Love the smell of hay in the morning? Scenes from the A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show
The show's second edition got under way at the fairgrounds in Merced, California. The Central Valley location stood in high relief at the early point in the day as these hay-hauling doubles you see rolled in, split by a livestock hauler.
June 24, 2022
Custom Rigs
Wedding getaway vehicle and more: Jacob Phillips' 2016 389 steel hauler
The owner-operator's custom project rig proceeded with his father-in-law toward a maiden voyage as the chariot that took Phillips and his now wife away from their wedding party at its nadir. Phillips has been full-time hauling with the 2016 Pete since.
June 23, 2022
Channel 19
The fuel-discounts app aimed squarely at independents -- owner-ops and truck stops both
Mudflap launched as a mobile app just two and a half years ago, building a user base with owner-ops and small fleets on half a million downloads. Its cost-plus fuel discounts at independent truck stops, meanwhile, have delivered other benefits, too.
June 22, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Maximum daily driving/duty flexibility in HOS, and the owner-op in pursuit of it
For this edition of Overdrive Radio, we're joined by Lee and Lisa Schmitt. Lee's exemption request from parts of the hours of service turned plenty heads when it hit the Federal Register recently. Also: We pause to recall an owner lost far too soon ...
June 17, 2022
Custom Rigs
Meet the Lewis Transfer custom 2007 Peterbilt 379, with operator Andrew Reed
Working in and with this 2007 Pete, powered by an '06 emissions-spec Caterpillar C16, this year has been something of a dream come true for operator Reed. He showed us around and inside the well-appointed 379 at Large Cars & Guitars last month.
June 16, 2022
Channel 19
Remember 'reverse price gouging'? A success story in resistance
The phrase reared its head with the story of one operator's recent resistance to a broker's attempt to cut an agreed-to rate in half on a double-drop trailer load toward Chicago. The operator urges others to similarly "hold the line" on profitability.
June 15, 2022
Overdrive Radio
California trucking at a crossroads: AB 5, $7 diesel and a special truck show in the offing
Car-haul small fleet owner C.G. Soza of California's Central Valley has a lot on his plate: the $7-plus diesel he's seen this week, planning around AB 5 contingencies with his leased haulers, and more. Catch a preview here of his Merced truck show, too.
June 10, 2022
Custom Rigs
'Ribbon Runner' cancer-awareness and tribute 1998 Peterbilt 379 dump making waves
Bryant D. Mann, owner of White Pine Paving out of Maryland, turned this 2006-bought 1998 model 379 into a dedicated cancer-awareness rig with a huge remake middle of the last decade. Mann detailed the project for us at Large Cars & Guitars last month.
June 9, 2022
Custom Rigs
In memory of John Visconti III: The custom 2020 Pete 389 glider of Casey Wendling
Owner-op Wendling dedicated the rig to the memory of a man he calls something of a “second dad to me” -- South Jersey-based fellow owner-operator and sometime “Farmer,” as he was known. The dedication follows Visconti's tragic 2014 on-highway passing.
June 2, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
What do a three-year cargo-van expediter and Overdrive's 2021 Small Fleet Champ have in common?
Systems-focused pursuit of success guide both. Champ Silver Creek Transportation and its leader Jason Cowan's investment in people and data engagement processes underpins a company culture that’s about well more than operating at a profit.
June 1, 2022
Custom Rigs
Custom 2021 Peterbilt 'home away from home' with a 168-inch ARI big bunk
This 389 of F.T. Trucking small fleet owners Frank and Ivonne Trujillo is well-appointed inside with the comforts of a rolling home and office, not to mention an old-school dash display. Outside? Plenty of custom touches completing the build with class.
May 26, 2022
Overdrive Radio
The cargo-van hustle: Break through limitations with business-systems focus
Cargo van expediter Breon Thomas is on a mission: To give a hand up to the generation of aspiring van business owners behind him with consultation that mere hustling won't get you where you want to go as an owner. Create your support structure to succeed.
May 24, 2022
Channel 19
Owner-operator Howard Salmon's interior remake of his '99 Kenworth W9
Back on the haul after four months' downtime, Salmon's remade his rig's interior with repurposed wood whose previous life had been as dunnage cast off from a load delivered to a friend, now lining both doors and new carpet throughout, and more.
May 19, 2022
Overdrive Radio
How politics and PR cloud 'zero emissions' reality -- digging into recent ATRI analysis
In this Overdrive Radio edition, drop into in-depth discussion with ATRI Vice President Dan Murray about research cutting through the "zero emissions" hype around battery/hydrogen-electric trucks. Brass-tacks reality paints a mixed picture.
May 13, 2022
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