4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio

Happy New Year! This final Overdrive Radio podcast for 2024 -- or the first for 2025, whenever you happen to be catching it -- looks back on the year that has been, a certainly sluggish one when it comes to business for many, though with a degree of optimism heading into 2025 with a new administration incoming and hope for business-friendly policy yielding freight improvement all around.

[Related: Overdrive's top 10 trucking stories of 2024]

Overdrive Radio's sponsor is Howes, longtime provider of fuel treatments like its Howes Diesel Treat anti-gel and Lifeline rescue treatment to get you through the coldest temps, likewise its all-weather Diesel Defender and Howes Multipurpose penetrating oil, among other products.Here’s how this one is going to go: Earlier this month, we charted the top 10 podcasts of this year, including a few two-parters featuring extended talks with working truckers, whether small fleet owners like Gill Freightlines’ Surinder Gill on the collapse of the Convoy brokerage, or some among our owner-operator Trucker of the Year contenders offering business advice gleaned from their wealth of experience.

We’ve got a short concert-haul run in-cab ("Roll on, Alabama!"), a guide to beating back predatory tow invoices and parking-lot traps, and much more among hot topics and business dissection delivered all throughout the year.

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So count down through the 10 most-listened-to podcasts of 2024, plus an extra three just outside that top 10 for a lucky 13, all the way to No. 1, to ring in the new year right:

Below you can track back through all the episodes excerpted in the 2024 review in full: