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OTR to home: Making local trucking work with Mike 'The Boston Trucker' Gaffin, Terry Shelton
Gaffin, with a growing profile as a videographer, details his long history in, and huge love for, OTR trucking, running back to childhood with a trucking father, a Teamster turned OTR post-deregulation. Gaffin's run the reverse path back to local work.
June 24, 2022
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Maximum daily driving/duty flexibility in HOS, and the owner-op in pursuit of it
For this edition of Overdrive Radio, we're joined by Lee and Lisa Schmitt. Lee's exemption request from parts of the hours of service turned plenty heads when it hit the Federal Register recently. Also: We pause to recall an owner lost far too soon ...
June 17, 2022
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California trucking at a crossroads: AB 5, $7 diesel and a special truck show in the offing
Car-haul small fleet owner C.G. Soza of California's Central Valley has a lot on his plate: the $7-plus diesel he's seen this week, planning around AB 5 contingencies with his leased haulers, and more. Catch a preview here of his Merced truck show, too.
June 10, 2022
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What do a three-year cargo-van expediter and Overdrive's 2021 Small Fleet Champ have in common?
Systems-focused pursuit of success guide both. Champ Silver Creek Transportation and its leader Jason Cowan's investment in people and data engagement processes underpins a company culture that’s about well more than operating at a profit.
June 1, 2022
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The cargo-van hustle: Break through limitations with business-systems focus
Cargo van expediter Breon Thomas is on a mission: To give a hand up to the generation of aspiring van business owners behind him with consultation that mere hustling won't get you where you want to go as an owner. Create your support structure to succeed.
May 24, 2022
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How politics and PR cloud 'zero emissions' reality -- digging into recent ATRI analysis
In this Overdrive Radio edition, drop into in-depth discussion with ATRI Vice President Dan Murray about research cutting through the "zero emissions" hype around battery/hydrogen-electric trucks. Brass-tacks reality paints a mixed picture.
May 13, 2022
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Fuel-market insanity: A tale of two loads, bedrock cost control, rates-management tactics
Fuel is out of hand, and in today's edition of Overdrive Radio, NASTC President David Owen and Overdrive Small Fleet Champ Jason Cowan, offer insight on why, ways to combat. Also: Tactics to keep rates where they need to be. Don't forget your best tool.
May 6, 2022
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'All drivers': Support, recruiting inclusivity highlight mission of LGBTQ+ Truck Driver Network
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, find insight from a conversation with network cofounder Bobby Coffey-Loy about the org's truck-show debut at MATS last month. Also: Extra from Long Haul Paul, remembering one among the very best in heavy haul.
April 29, 2022
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The COVID-survival tale of a hauler for some of the biggest acts in music
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, concert-tour-trucking veteran Chip Warterfield tells the story of what happened to Upstaging, Inc., when COVID in 2020 essentially brought every single one of its touring clients to an abrupt and complete halt.
April 22, 2022
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Meet your regulator -- FMCSA chief Robin Hutcheson -- and post-PIB biz talk, part 2
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, track back through a half-hour session with reporters the FMCSA chief held at MATS, touching on trucking pride, regulatory change, and much more; also: Part 2 of our post-Partners in Business best practices roundtable.
April 15, 2022
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Why drivers get into business as owner-operators
This Overdrive Radio podcast features a roundtable on business process issues with something of a cross section of trucking: Aspirational small fleet owner and fleet operations veteran Pete Anderson and leased owners David Nihart and Raeshawn Lucas.
April 11, 2022
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Trucking 'The Big Road' with new podcast, small fleet TMS
Today's podcast features former operator James Crowley's new audio effort, telling his story of initiation to the trucking business, and the brand-new, small-fleet-focused Lynks TMS, greasing the skids for owner-op back-office/on-highway tasks.
April 1, 2022
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Meet the owners and drivers of the year -- a window on the Las Vegas awards banquet
For this edition of Overdrive Radio, sit back and take it all in as we run through the stories of six finalists, three each in owner-operator and company driver categories, from this week's awards show at Truckload 2022 in Las Vegas.
March 25, 2022
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'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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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
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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
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'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
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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
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