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'Way past ridiculous': Owner-ops sound off on FMCSA's baby steps on detention
Owner-ops and trucking groups respond to FMCSA's intentions to further explore the impacts of detention time on trucking. Truckers by and large favor a study, but clearly don't need any more convincing that excess detention is a major problem.
November 9, 2023
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What to do when your insurance policy doesn’t provide the necessary coverage
If you discover that your insurance policy doesn’t provide coverage for something you need it for, there is almost certainly a solution to provide that missing coverage. Some circumstances, though, are easier to address than others.
November 7, 2023
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March 24, 2025
Overdrive Extra
View from the kitchen window: OTR life on the home front
Marcia Buchs offers lessons learned on managing relationships on the home front, after years working with her OTR owner-operator husband to make time for connection, avoid the money-problems wedge and much more.
November 2, 2023
Overdrive Extra
A look at 'Topsy,' Edison Motors' new diesel-electric vocational prototype
It's the novel creation of Chace Barber and the team at Canada-headquartered Edison Motors, and the first new build for the company after several retrofit diesel-electric designs, and recently shown at an Ontario truck and car show.
October 24, 2023
Small Fleet Champ
Four fleets, four freight niches: Only two will take home the Small Fleet Champ title belts
We're proud to highlight the profit, growth, and stability achievements of the final four Small Fleet Champ contenders from bulk tank to end dump, flatbed to refrigerated. Two weeks hence, they square off in the last round at NASTC in Nashville.
October 6, 2023
Overdrive Extra
How owner-operators can avoid joining the 'capacity reduction' ranks
With all the talk of 'capacity reduction' -- owner-ops and fleets failing -- improving conditions from the trucking supply side, Gary Buchs offers this take on small fleet resilience, and some ways owners might prevent becoming a statistic.
October 18, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Weigh-in: Time for truckers to torpedo the two-week notice?
So asks Long Haul Paul with this tale of bad blood after an old friend's two-week notice resulted in 14 days of bad loads, and a couple of crashes, to boot. Three experienced owners weigh in with their own considered answers.
October 12, 2023
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Another trucker's tires punctured on I-75 in Georgia
After an Overdrive report on a bizarre act of vandalism against a sleeping trucker's rig, another report emerged with eerie similarities and no clear cause.
October 10, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Trucker gets all 18 tires punctured parked on Georgia exit ramp
After trucker David Lucas had all 18 tires on his truck -- plus the six on the equipment he was hauling on his step deck -- punctured overnight in Adel, Georgia, police said this isn't the first time they've seen it in the area.
October 6, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Atlanta wants your truck parking expertise | Ohio plans U.S. 23 improvements
Another day, another parking survey. (Sigh.) If that's your first reaction, take the long view. Atlanta's metro planning org is requesting truckers' input on freight issues in the 20-county area, and Ohio needs Columbus-Toledo expertise, too.
October 4, 2023
Overdrive Extra
RigDig Truck History Report now part of Overdrive
For more than a decade running, Overdrive sister company RigDig BI has been the go-to source for used-truck buyers in need of a gut check on any vehicle's title, total loss and inspection history. Now, it's part of OverdriveOnline.com.
October 2, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Fun, fellowship, safety: Making the most of a day out at a truck parade
Which one of these three things doesn't belong with the other? For Small Fleet Champ contender D. Weaver Trucking recently, it was all in a day's work culminating with participation in TFC Global's annual truck parade/show in Holmes County, Ohio.
September 27, 2023
Overdrive Extra
TCA 'Highway Angel' honor revoked: Driver did not rescue 'kids in cages' from human traffickers
After reporting a tip to state police that he claimed saved children from human traffickers, it turns out what the truck driver thought he saw was simply incorrect. Rather, it was a mother carrying her children home to Phoenix, Arizona.
September 12, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Why every truck owner should read their insurance policies
Insurance agent W. Joel Baker emphasizes that you might be very surprised to find what is not in fact covered, and what is required of you to avoid a claim being denied or your insurance being canceled.
September 5, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Meet Overdrive's 2023 Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists
From the 10 fleets named semi-finalists, Overdrive will recognize two finalists each in two separate competitive divisions -- companies with 3-10 trucks and those with 11-30 trucks at the end of 2022 -- before naming a winner in each category.
September 1, 2023
Overdrive Extra
Truck with purpose to leave the business better than you found it
Clifford Petersen works best with a deadline. "Maybe that’s why I thrive as a trucker," he writes here, reflecting on a milestone achieved and a deadline removed, with a message about how to bring purpose to the never-ending cycle of load, drive, unload.
August 30, 2023
Overdrive Extra
6 strategies for carriers to help weather a tough freight market
One constant to all of these strategies is that in a down market, you must find ways to compete on factors other than the rate. When freight markets and rates are down 10%-20% across the board, price wars get extra-punitive.
August 23, 2023
Overdrive Extra
How to turn up the heat on detention
And charge customers for it. Truckers report little improvement in detention times since the ELD mandate. Yet time, of course, is money. The more owner-operators use their own numbers to engage customers on costs and lost opportunity the better.
August 16, 2023
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