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'Road less traveled': Trucker of the Month Ken Brodeur takes control with authority
As a fellow owner and friend said about him in the recent feature story, Ken Brodeur’s just “one of them good old success stories” in trucking. He's made good on a long-term goal of greater control of his life, now with full control of the business.
February 10, 2025
Beat the 'winner's curse' of auction-type negotiations for better freight rates
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, contributor Gary Buchs expands on the fine art of negotiation, where pressure for speed too often yields below-market-value results for owner-operators on the spot market. Ways to win, here, without the curse.
February 4, 2025
Ways to build the 'Remarkable One Truck Company'
The most-efficient owner-operators have a leg up in cost-to-operate competitiveness with big fleets, in some ways. In this Overdrive Radio edition, Rutherford and NASTC's leader detail their vision for the ROTC effort to max one-truck potential.
January 27, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Staying young, learning more: Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber
Trucker of the Year judges lauded owner-operator Kitzhaber’s meticulous approach to both maintenance and efficiency throughout the operation. "A smart businessman," said one, "really a monument to the craft of trucking as an owner-operator."
January 21, 2025
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Hacked? How to contain the damage, or better avoid the hackers entirely
In this Overdrive Radio edition, a variety of ways to spot fraud in phishing emails and on fradulent rate cons, and in the very voice on the phone who might purport to be someone you know, or from a company you know.
January 13, 2025
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Tour-haul 'special forces': Small fleet owner Josh Rickards builds the team
Specialized in concert-tour and other entertainment hauling, Rickards puts sharp focus on creating opportunity for the fleet's leased owner-operators through honesty and transparency in leasing agreements and business in general.
January 6, 2025
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4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio
A small fleet owner builds direct business after getting burned by a broker to a concert tour-haul run with country-rock legends, plenty in the way of biz advice borne of experience, and so much more: Overdrive Radio's 2024 in review.
December 31, 2024
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Five decades of 'swinging the bat' for small business trucking: Joe Rajkovacz
From battles fought over decades as an owner-operator to full-time work with OOIDA and the last decade and a half at the Western States Trucking Association, Joe Rajkovacz's legacy as a voice for small business continues, even now in retirement.
December 23, 2024
Trucker of the Year
How Trucker of the Year contenders beat 2024's sluggish conditions
This second installment wrapping up 2024's competitive TOTY field shows owners poised for growth in the new year, in plenty more ways than one. Check in with Alec Costerus, Greg Labosky, Mike Nichols and the brothers of Zimmerman Ag.
December 16, 2024
Trucker of the Year
Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 TOTY 'exit interviews'
Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year contenders have battled soft freight and sluggish rates with moves large and small. Here, four contenders map out their experience through the year, delivering insight on business decision-making.
December 9, 2024
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Trump II and the outlook for speed limiters, broker transparency, parking push
Can regulatory efforts -- whether generally favored (transparency) or not (speed limiters) -- survive a second Trump term? In this Overdrive Radio, OOIDA leaders Todd Spencer, Lewie Pugh offer perspective on that question and much more.
December 2, 2024
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Owner-op Garrett Steenblik's 200-lb. weight loss journey
Steenblik found not only greater physical health but, ultimately, bedrock mental well-being. With his new Trucker's Body Shop business, he hopes to help deliver that to any fellow OTR hauler who needs it, who truly wants it for themselves.
November 25, 2024
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champs pay it forward: Hard-earned trucking knowledge
Today on Overdrive Radio, the annual roundtable with Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ finalists, featuring mistakes made and overcome, trucking business lessons learned, and a strong pay-it-forward focus for the next generation of ownership.
November 18, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Veterans Day special: Coalition supporting vets in ag careers honored in Howes Hall of Fame
Farmer Veteran Coalition CEO Jeanette Lombardo's personal story of how, in the midst of the pandemic, she would come to be inspired by and, then, intimately involved in leading an organization with a worthy mission.
November 11, 2024
Overdrive Radio
'Good day to be out trucking', with the steady hands of Zimmerman Ag
Overdrive's October Truckers of the Month, owners Daryl and Nelson Zimmerman, combine DIY maintenance prowess with a true love of the trucking business to serve agricultural-support businesses and farmers in and around Belgrade, Minn.
November 4, 2024
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The 'driver shortage' is dead? And: Inside the broker-carrier scrum at last week's summit
Today on the podcast, a conversation about National Academies' recent compensation study with OOIDA President Todd Spencer, casting doubt on persistent "driver shortage" narratives. Also: A firsthand report from last week's Broker-Carrier Sumit.
October 28, 2024
Overdrive Radio
The $2 million Peterbilt 389 with a special mission
In this week's Overdrive Radio, the expert singing voice of Marine vet and singer-songwriter Sal Gonzalez warms up and brings to fruition Rush Truck Centers' special celebration benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, others with last 389 sweepstakes.
October 21, 2024
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Rene Holguin, September Trucker of the Month, cementing a legacy with authority
Overdrive's September Trucker of the Month achieves a significant pay-it-forward goal after getting into business with the tutelage of a family member. In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, dive into Holguin's two-decade-plus history trucking.
October 14, 2024
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