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Overdrive Extra
Stay focused: Principal problem-solving challenge for owner-ops
Gary Buchs on problem-solving in a tough market: āOne of my primary points when mentoring a new owner-op or driver: solve the little problems first. Part and parcel of that directive is understanding just what you are able to control. Donāt let others distract you from your priorities.ā
July 22, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Demanding detention improvement ā high time for action from all industry quarters
Clifford Petersen on detention-issue engagement as comment period continues through September: Without considerable driver engagement, detentions issues āwill not change in favor of the driver but rather sway with whichever the way the winds of voters and lobbyists blow.ā
July 12, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Photographer highlights truckers in sensitive portraits
The work of Chicago photographer Andy Goodwin goes a long way toward portraying drivers in vivid environmental portraits at truck stops, docks and elsewhere.
July 3, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Sisters of the highway: Trucker donating kidney to fellow hauler
One hauler (and kidney) to another. āLong Haul Paulā Marhoefer tells the story of West Virginia-based oil tank hauler Elizabeth Sweetās plans to donate a kidney to Hawaii-based dump-truck driver Cheryl Lynn Ibana-Bean.
July 3, 2019
Overdrive Radio
40 years of trucking ā and surviving ā with owner-operator Ingrid Brown (Plus: Three tunes from Trucker Talent finalists)
Owner-operator Ingrid Brown started trucking as a teenager in 1979, and sheās been on the road since. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear her reflections on her 40-year career, many of those spent as a single-truck owner-operator, as well as her recent involvement in FMCSAās Our Roads, Our Safety campaign and her ongoing bout with various forms of skin cancer.
June 28, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Slowdown watch: How slow, how far down?
At best, business as usual for an undetermined time. At worst, a more pronounced slowdown this year or the next.
June 26, 2019
Overdrive Extra
No surprise: Drivers give best marks to shippers/receivers with quick turn times in Uber Freight ratings
Uber says it has collected over 250,000 ratings from truckers since it launched its Uber Freight platform in 2017.Ā The factor that weighed most heavily in driversā ratings of facilities was turn-around time at shippers or receivers, both in positive and negative reviews.
June 20, 2019
Overdrive Extra
The disconnects of dollars for your ELD data
The emerging market of ELD data sharing involves business-to-business sharing of highly specialized data that in some cases has value on the individual level. Should you share your data? Editor Max Heine explores the question hereā¦
June 18, 2019
Overdrive Extra
18-20-year-old interstate drivers? Answering FMCSAās questions
Owner-op Clifford Petersen on the federal under-21 interstate CDL pilot program idea, with answers to the questions FMCSA asked in the recent request for comment: āIf you want your opinion heard or recorded, the comment period is open through mid-July.ā ā¦
June 5, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Hours update: Congress advances 30-minute break provision, FMCSA to kill 2013 restart regs
Congress could stick its nose into the hours overhaul processĀ by trying to protect the 30-minute break requirement. Meanwhile, FMCSA has a rule in the works to permanently bury 2013ās regulations limiting the use of a 34-hour restart.
June 5, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Amazonās brokerage could soak up capacity, hurt competing brokers
Unlike other brokers, analysts contend, Amazon isnāt looking to monetize the brokerage, at least not directly or initially. Instead, the brokerage is part of a larger strategy by the company to build up a network of small carriers and owner-operators by assuring them access to loads at pre-determined rates.
May 31, 2019
Custom Rigs
āLawlessā offers fun look at the dark side
Danny Autullo took one of the hottest trends in the show truck scene ā rat rods ā and added his own touch by dressing up an old Peterbilt 379 with custom metal artifacts.
May 29, 2019
Overdrive Extra
When celebrating, donāt become a memorial yourself
Clifford Petersen reflects on the challenges of the holiday weekend ā marked increase in motorist traffic, irresponsible on-highway moves and so much more. āDonāt let it be your last weekend as a professional because of poor judgement. Donāt become a memory for others to celebrate next year.ā
May 27, 2019
Overdrive Extra
When changing freight lanes, donāt forget to think differently, too
Quick-changing freight conditions affect carriers large and small, and faster than they ever did before as tech greases the change skids. The people who are going to adjust best, as has always been the case, will be independent thinkers with high-level critical thinking skills in the toolbox.
May 23, 2019
Custom Rigs
A new take on stainless, an amazing trailer conversion
The exterior attention-grabber is the gold-colored stainless on the Kenworth W900 and the custom RV it pulled. The interior of the trailer, though, is an equally impressive showpiece of household amenities and efficient power-sharing.
May 17, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Letās end the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections
āIn the wake of several state troopers and truck drivers being hit on the side of the road in recent months, I feel the time has come to change the regulations and require more than one inspection be conducted every 12 months in an approved location.ā Forcing more routine around equipment inspections, owner-op Gary Buchs believes, will pay multiple dividends.
May 15, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told āI couldnāt do it, and I was gonna prove āem wrongā
Hooks and her 2014 389: āI learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. Thereās people out there in Texas ā¦, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what Iāve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.ā
May 13, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Plenty blame to go around in Colo. tragedy, when the damage is done
Trucker Clifford Petersen on the Colo. disaster: āLetās build a training program within our industry that the feds will model, because the standards are high, and expectations are even higher. The lives we save may be those of our own families. Those lives may be our own.ā
May 6, 2019
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