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On-highway experience yields insights for Convoy co-founder | More early from MATS

After co-founding the Convoy digital brokerage and serving as Chief Technology Officer, Grant Goodale shifted his role to better optimize carriers' experience of the platform. To get to MATS, he stitched together three hauls with three different carriers.

March 24, 2022

Convoy remote control truck

Overdrive Radio

'Unpopular opinions' on the Entry Level Training regs newly in effect

Trucker Nation's Andrea Marks returns in this Overdrive Radio podcast to push and pull on reactions to trucking regulation, specifically recent voices of distaste for FMCSA's Entry Level training rules.

March 18, 2022

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Overdrive Radio

A truckin' start: The OTR origin stories of owner-op award finalists

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear how three competing nominees got their start, including award finalist five-timer Glen Horack, Iowa-based owner-operator Gene Houchin, and West Virginia-based team Allen and Sandy Smith.

March 11, 2022

Owner-operators report rates slipping against the rise in fuel

With diesel hitting all-time price highs this week, a majority of owners assessed fuel/maintenance cost inflation measured against revenue and noted the latter was starting to lag, despite efforts to combat dramatic cost pressures.

March 9, 2022

One of John Henderson's fuel hauler semi-trucks

Overdrive Radio

Will the national emergency declaration's COVID hours of service waiver extend again?

With a protest convoy on its way to the D.C. area calling for withdrawal of the emergency declaration that underpins it, and the government signaling a return to a non-emergency footing, this Overdrive Radio details prospects for the COVID hours waiver.

March 3, 2022

Flatbed securement accountability, mentoring, training in practice

Longtime independent and Gary's Fleet Service hotshot flatbed/step deck dispatcher Gary McGaha feels his securement practice, an easy strategy to implement, might be "a perfect job for very experienced drivers" sidelined by medical or retired.

March 1, 2022

class 8 step deck haulers

What Kevin Rutherford's Sirius XM show's cancelation might teach us about the outrage machine

Tit-for-tat over loose-talk social media commentary from a politician, prompted by media amplification of similar loose talk, ends longtime owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford's long run on Sirius XM.

February 28, 2022

Kevin Rutherford

On-highway fitness coaching program for quick weight loss, or your money back

The relatively new TruckFit program of the Trucking Fitness Company helps operators build custom-designed programs toward individual diet/fitness goals. Its founder and haulers who've used it emphasize efficacy through small steps.

February 25, 2022

Truck Fit Split Squats

Overdrive Radio

'Advanced ELD auditing': Preventing hours viols during an audit

ELDs have emphatically not delivered carriers from hours-related enforcement, particularly at the investigatory level when federal and state auditors come calling. Here's how to navigate the new system of ELD audits.

February 18, 2022

Overdrive Radio

On the 'Freedom Convoy' protest, with Canadian cross-border owner-operator Mike Murchison

A long Overdrive Radio talk on initiating and evolving issues related to the protests in Canada, from the vantage point of an owner-operator who hauls cross-border exclusively, as authorities up the ante in bids to end the border blockades.

February 11, 2022

Full-throated return of the truck show season on tap for 2022?

With MATS back on tap in March, a robust truck show season ought to be in the cards for 2022 – details here on ATHS' series, their national convention in Illinois, Shine in the Pines in Georgia, a shootout in Illinois, the A.J. Soza show poster, more.

February 8, 2022

Overdrive Radio

The FBI needs your help solving this cold-case murder

Via Overdrive Radio, an FBI agent talks about her office's push in hopes of gathering leads into the 2006 murder of 19-year-old Tracy Owana Jones. If you were running I-40 back then, you might help. Also: Debate over FMCSA's under-21 trial run.

February 4, 2022

Price of border vax mandates? For this owner, a two-hour protest traffic jam

On Mike Davis's first-ever trip over the Canadian border last weekend, hundreds of protesting vehicles at 7 a.m. on the northern side cost some hours of wait. Also: A trial run sourcing synthetic oil, and a question: Anybody run "Sinopec" oil?

February 1, 2022

canadian border protest

Overdrive Radio

'Not really what we need': Training regs may miss the mark, but this small fleet's doing it right

In this Overdrive Radio edition, veteran hauler and small fleet operator Harry Smith speaks to his passion for on-the-job training he's put into practice, skepticism about training regs going into place, and determination to move forward with the regs.

January 28, 2022

Ralph Smith Co Overdrive Radio Episode

Dramatic, disastrous wheel-off incidents -- a new way to prevent

Former owner-operator Scott Grenerth well recalls the day a leaky wheel seal resulted in heat such that a tandem pair on his trailer rocketed into the woods clearing a path like a tornado. New sensor tech from LWS, Inc., could have helped prevent it.

January 25, 2022

tire flying off car from accident

Overdrive Radio

Owner-Op of the Year Bryan Smith's three-decade journey through trucking, family, more

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, walk-and-talk with trucker Bryan Smith through decades of business ownership, after operating heavy equipment in the Marine Corps during the Gulf War, and commitment to family and community.

January 21, 2022

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FMCSA's new 'Entry Level' training regs loom, old-school training ways survive

As for-hire trainers around the nation continue to pop up in FMCSA's new registry and adjust processes to fit the new rule, among "private" providers is one small fleet whose old-school apprenticeship approach will thrive even with new regs.

January 20, 2022

Straight-truck short-haul with owner-op Miles Puckett

Puckett hauls blacktop in and around his Eastern Kentucky home base with this '07 Pete dump, one among owners of straight trucks making it work in the vocational dump segment.

January 12, 2022

Miles Puckett 2007 Peterbilt dump truck

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10,000 CDL drivers out-of-service for ELP: Where's the rates bump?

Are 10,000 drivers really sidelined after ELP violations? Or are some states letting them go? Overdrive finds the real story.

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Trump orders change to marijuana regs: What truckers need to know

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Like-new 2000 Freightliner cabover another horse in Everhart's stable

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