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FMCSA's broker transparency rule: Date missed, more owner-ops going direct
Part 2 of this Overdrive Radio talk with small fleet owner Surinder Gill followed the 2023 collapse of the Convoy brokerage, Gill's former principal freight partner. FMCSA missed another projected date for the transparency rule, yet there's new evidence more owner-ops are bypassing middlemen for direct business.
August 3, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Larger broker, larger bond: Should surety requirement vary by size?
This Overdrive Radio podcast looks back on the case of small fleet owner Surinder Gill, owed $35,000 by the failed Convoy broker despite efforts to recoup the money. Given his claims alone were nearly half of the $75K broker bond, he suggested a new regulatory approach, now echoed by many other owner-ops.
July 27, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Hedge against bad brokers: Trucker of the Month insists on cash before unload
When a broker's not approved for credit by his factor, owner-op Ruben Dotto insists on payment before unload or flat-out declines to do business. That's after a dirty deal on a $3,800 partial left him hauling for little more than fuel money. He won't make the same mistake twice.
July 20, 2026
Overdrive Radio
How carrier vetting changed, before and after big SCOTUS ruling
What brokers call "carrier onboarding" has evolved mightily from the process described off the top of this week's Overdrive Radio podcast. Gone are the days of the manila folder file-and-forget approach, that's for certain. How Roar Logistics seeks to work with core carriers here.
July 13, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Small Fleet Champ: Last month to enter! And: Meet Mike Singleton, chroncling life OTR
On Overdrive Radio, a personal call to beat the July 31 deadline to compete in Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship, and: Former trucker Mike Singleton's story of OTR inspiration for his "Blacktop Chronicles" ongoing effort to give voice to trials and tribulations of working owners, drivers.
July 6, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Get prepped for traffic stops, inspections before CVSA 'Safe Driver' week
Overdrive Radio offers up ways to prep for the Operation Safe Driver Week traffic blitz happening July 12-18 nationwide. Hear from enforcers in a state well-known for roadside stops -- No. 11 toughest in Overdrive's nationwide rankings for moving violations.
June 29, 2026
Overdrive Radio
21M miles on the road to true trucking elite status
Today, an Overdrive salute to Candy "Glitter Granny" Bass, Eddie "Tennessee Trash" Parrish, and Mike "Cow Chip" Brown, all 7M-safe-milers and honored together for the achievement at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Bristol, Tennessee, last month.
June 22, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Spec the truck to the job: Owner-op Ron Schreiner's turn to oilfield work
Schreiner’s current business reboot sees him following his own best pieces of advice for all manner of new-to-the-business owners. Namely, find the right used truck for the job you’ll be doing. His personal experience attests after initial purchase of a Pete 386 whose rear suspension wasn't quite up to his oilfield work.
June 15, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Will FMCSA safety rating be key to owner-ops' access to freight?
Short answer: Not by itself. Today on Overdrive Radio, a view from the broker's side of the equation. Jennifer Mead of S2 argues for more safety rating from FMCSA, yet underscores the value of in-real-life relationships between middlemen and carrier service providers.
June 8, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Truckstop.com's reboot: Inside the leadership purge, staff reduction, renewed customer focus
After company CEO Scott Moscrip returned last year, roughly 80% of leadership "was let go within about six months." This week in Overdrive Radio, Moscrip details how renewed customer focus is delivering functionality improvements for owner-ops and brokers in all areas for the board.
June 1, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Momentum building: Trucker of the Month Sam Kelly, 3 trucks and counting
Kelly separates himself in his willingness to be the problem-solver, to take matters into his own hands when plans break down. But his story is remarkable, too, with respect to a clear instinct to learn from his own errors in business and in life, and come out the other side no less eager to win.
May 25, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business
An
Overdrive
2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.
May 18, 2026
Overdrive Radio
FMCSA registration to go dark: How truckers can prep for Motus
May 14, at roughly 8 p.m. Eastern, is the deadline to take these steps to set your trucking business up to easily claim your new account in Motus when it launches next week. The new system will aim combat the FMCSA's "front door problem" to prevent bad actors' access.
May 11, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Roadcheck 2026: Toughest states for HOS violations
With CVSA's annual Roadcheck upcoming May 12-14, take a look at rankings for the toughest HOS-enforcement states, and ways owner-ops might prepare for inspectors' focus on ELD tampering, false logs.
May 4, 2026
Overdrive Radio
20% MPG boost: GDL Enterprise's right-place, right-time new-truck investment
Year 2025 was a rollercoaster mostly headed downhill for owner-op Greg Labosky, yet with a new truck purchased in January, he's improved fuel mileage considerably, by well more than a mile per gallon not even past break-in.
April 27, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Just how high has owner-ops' truck-trailer maintenance cost moved?
According to ATBS, in 2025 owner-operators spent upward of $14,000 on average. That's 15 cents of maintenance for every single mile run. What's your set-aside for truck and trailer upkeep? If you haven’t boosted the number in a while, there's no time like the present.
April 20, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Smallest fault-code scanner worldwide? Diesel Laptops delivers diagnostic assist
As so many bootstrapped companies’ stories do, Diesel Laptops' starts in the trunk of the founder's car, from which he sold some of his early tools for all-makes fault-code diagnostics. For his efforts to bring independent tools to truck owners and techs, Tyler Robertson is now part of the Howes Hall of Fame.
April 13, 2026
Overdrive Radio
High time truckers vet the brokers: Opening MATS panel on fraud fight, AI, more
Carriers "have been vetted to death" by freight middlemen and the feds for decades. In this Overdrive Radio, a MATS panel discussion charts ways carriers can take the reins of their own vetting protocols, among topics related to fraud, AI, growth challenges and more for trucking small biz.
April 6, 2026
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