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Overdrive Extra: Page 5
With six more highway workers dead last month in Maryland, double down on the fight against safety complacency
In the wake of six March deaths after a car plowed through a construction zone, Clifford Petersen kicks off work-zone-safety week with this safety-complacency message: "If we’re honest with ourselves, we’re all guilty of it." A few ways to fight it, here.
April 17, 2023
Hey brokers, Holland Logistics is in fact an authorized trucking company
That's despite assertions to the contrary in the data-mining system of a third-party provider of authority lookup services, small fleet owner Thomas Holland said. With added difficulties as a result, the owner feels like he's facing the end of his biz.
April 12, 2023
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'Bandit' 2021 W900L: New floor, more mods add to the trophy case
Oakley Trucking-leased owner-operator John McCormick's 2021 Kenworth W900L, Bandit, took home second for its cab interior in the working truck class at MATS. Here, views on a project come to pass there with a new floor, more.
April 11, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Beware the insurance-requirement fine print in truck-lease agreements
There's a common condition within truck lease agreements that can present a serious obstacle. Read that fine print closely or you could be losing money.
April 10, 2023
Overdrive Extra
One Wyoming funeral home, seven drivers: Dispatch from a Truckers Final Mile benefit at MATS
Long Haul Paul details the MATS benefit for the organization that's filled a void left in the wake of deregulation -- Truckers Final Mile and its founder, Robert Palm, recovering from surgery as he continued to assist families bring loved ones home.
April 7, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Hats off to 50-year trucking veteran Candy Bass
As the TA location in downtown Nashville that bears her name closed last Friday, Candy Bass was being feted in Louisville at MATS as WIT's Driver of the Year. Here, a recollection of a selfless presence in trucking well worthy of all our appreciation.
April 4, 2023
Overdrive Extra
'Love of old trucks' with Dwayne J. Nienberg: Faces of the Road
"There are folks you meet out here who quietly reestablish your faith in people. Nienberg is one of them." --Long Haul Paul on Nienberg's story of love of trucking after a tragic crash, struggle to just get back to it on the road.
March 31, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Join us at MATS -- new owner-operator business book released, live benchmarking seminar, more
Join Overdrive and ATBS 1:45 p.m. local time on Friday, March 31, in Louisville at MATS for the annual Partners in Business seminar, as new owner-operator manual, charting business start to finish, released. Download here.
March 23, 2023
Overdrive Extra
An argument for an hourly-pay standard for truckers
Clifford Petersen believes that while such a shift may be painful for some, he feels "it’s a necessary one toward meaningful reform, and a way to seed motivation for the next generation of truckers," improving safety in the process.
March 28, 2023
Overdrive Radio
Tales from a trainer's truck: Good, bad, ugly with reefer operator Bill Douglas
The rewards that come with knowing you've set a driver up for success, and difficulties setting boundaries with a trainee taking your credit card for dinner -- while you're asleep. Long Haul Paul takes the mic for this podcast with the longtime trainer.
March 24, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Owner-operators dish to the motoring public on parking, ELDs, appreciation, sharing the road ...
A recent episode of a local radio program delivered a dose of reality to the motoring public, digging into a variety of topics near and dear to owner-operators: parking/time stresses and the ELD mandate, unrealistic brokered rates and much more.
March 20, 2023
Overdrive Extra
'Estimated opening time is unknown': Winter from hell on I-80 in Wyoming
"Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer's report from his own marooning two weeks back with road closures in frigid Wyoming, culminating a rash of closures this winter season and a threefold increase in related crash fatalities.
March 13, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Ohio, Arizona hazmat disasters hold lessons for owners, carriers in the fight against safety complacency
In the wake of the high-profile Ohio train derailment, and later hazmat spill from a dry van that closed I-10 for a day in Arizona, Overdrive contributor Gary Buchs urges owner-operators to fight against safety complacency that can come with success.
March 8, 2023
Overdrive Extra
'It came with work': CAP Trucking's flagship 2003 Peterbilt 379
A visit with 2022 Small Fleet Champ and CAP owner Chris Porricelli yields the story of this '03 classic, bought with the "truck, trailer, bulkhead and pallet jack and with the southbound load" out of Pennsylvania as part of the deal in 2017.
March 1, 2023
Overdrive Extra
How to avoid application errors when applying for your USDOT/MC numbers
All too often, application errors lead to extra start-up costs, delays and lost income. Longtime owner-operator and insurance agent W. Joel Baker here shares some of the more common filing errors he sees and issues associated with them.
February 28, 2023
Overdrive Extra
'We don't give directions' -- how GPS is changing our social selves
Long Haul Paul's talk with a blue-haired receiver with a hipster affect takes a surprising turn. Have GPS and other trucking tech "permanently altered our sense of social obligation toward one another?" he asks. Or just turned necessity into opportunity.
February 21, 2023
Overdrive Extra
We are not alone in the struggle against depression and other serious mental health risks
A recent OTR suicide prompted Clifford Petersen to remind anyone needing help that he's been there himself, and is available for a conversation, for support. Read his moving story here, and access resources. "You are not alone," as he emphasizes.
February 13, 2023
Regulations
Is ATA starting to understand small trucking businesses?
In the first meeting of the new Congress' House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, ATA President and CEO Chris Spear spoke to the reps about issues trucking faces. Interestingly, perhaps oddly, he sounded at least at times like an owner-op.
February 2, 2023
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