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Trucker of the Year
Catastrophic engine failure delivers customer calamity: How these owners prep for the worst
The "exit interviews," round 1, with four 2025 Trucker of the Year contenders, with the big push to the opportunity a new year always brings to set goals, lay plans and start acting on them. Yet it’s also true that in so many ways the time for that is now -- for any small trucking business, at any given moment.
December 1, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Truckers' tools to prevent fuel fraud, from complex AI to simple cybersecurity self-help
At the annual NASTC conference, Wex's security team leader emphasized the human element in fuel-fraud prevention as the biggest factor any size carrier can address to make the most gains in preventing losses, empowering themselves through self-education and passing it on to team members.
November 24, 2025
Overdrive Radio
J.P. Transport's journey to maximum trucking efficiency
With a very low operating ratio given his business’s efficiency, owner-operator John Penn is doing plenty right. His home life is benefiting, too, as a result. In this week's Overdrive Radio, dive in with Penn from the very beginning, when he first got his CDL around the turn of the century, the start of a journey toward max trucking efficiency.
November 17, 2025
Overdrive Radio
How military service set these trucking entrepreneurs straight on course to success
A special Overdrive Radio marks Veterans Day, commemorating the military service of so many around the United States, and in American trucking. Here we honor the stories of two vets -- Army and Navy, respectively -- who are equally clear-eyed emphasizing what their service meant for their long careers as business owners.
November 11, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Roadside war stories, camaraderie, ownership advice: Small Fleet Champs deliver
This week's edition of Overdrive Radio drops into the Small Fleet Champ awards ceremony and a side roundtable talk with the four finalists: Clifford Hay Inc., Thomasville Furniture Xpress, Turnage & Sons, and Oberman Logistics. The owners traded war stories from hefty tow bills (how's $15K for four miles) and plenty tried-and-true advice for the move from one truck to many.
November 3, 2025
Overdrive Radio
'Be the best': Lofty goals successfully executed define owner-op John Treadway's trucking career
Trucker of the Year contender John Treadway's mindset served the owner well through three-plus decades in business, now with a central customer with a reefer trailer and plenty of pride showing through the equipment. That's never easy, of course: "There's just a grind to it," in his words. "Keep grinding, and keep moving forward."
October 27, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Taking control: Owner-op cost and revenue, income, wider trucking trends
In this Overdrive Radio edition, follow along with the latest semi-annual ATBS owner-op trends session, charting performance metrics against which you can measure your own performance. A key metric to consider, too, to ID when the iron is hot -- not in the freight market broadly but in the run of your own day-to-day business.
October 20, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Ice Road Truckers' Lisa Kelly, back in action -- new show season, new biz
Two episodes of the new IRT season in, our talk with Lisa Kelly reveals what the past Carlile Transportation company driver has been up to in the near-decade hiatus for the show. For one: She bought a truck and now runs as an owner-operator, among other new pursuits.
October 13, 2025
Overdrive Radio
FMCSA's GBATS session: Truckers' applause for Trump DOT moves not hard to find
No news has further reach around trucking this year than the DOT's recent changes to the rules around non-domiciled CDL issuance, effective now, garnering applause at the agency's recent GBATS session with owner-ops. It's not alone among FMCSA moves of late truckers have lauded. Hear the session in full here.
October 6, 2025
Custom Rigs
Guilty by Association Truck Show rolls into Joplin
One of the trucking industry's biggest events, the biennial GBATS at 4 State Trucks in Joplin, Missouri, is officially under way at Exit 4 off I-44. Scenes from the show here with some standout trucks from the show's first day.
September 26, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Sleeper berth: Will truckers be able to split as they see fit?
Proposed split-duty and -sleeper pilot programs from FMCSA offer a path forward on delivering what's been the cardinal ask of many owner-operators for more than two decades since the 14-hour rule came into play. Namely, that's greater hours of service flexibility.
September 22, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists not afraid to get their hands dirty
Turnage and Sons' father-son team of Robbie and Levi Turnage, and MRL Transport owner Mark Ledford, illustrate value in hands-on operations, training, leadership underpinning their long-term success.
September 15, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Small-biz trucking success, with family assist: The woman behind owner-operator Jason Shelly
The owner-op's journey in business has benefited from all manner of family support, none more so than his wife's. Shelly strives to pay it forward in all sorts of ways, and does so in this Overdrive Radio with emphasis on family's importance to all manner of owner-operators' biz success.
September 8, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Lending a hand up the ladder: Legacy of mentorship for Trucker of the Month Jason Shelly
Shelly's legacy is no doubt a work in progress with plenty working years ahead, yet he's building it by prioritizing mentorship to young truckers with an eye on getting in business as owner-operators.
September 2, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Rise of the 'non-domiciled CDL' for non-citizen truck drivers: Safety, rates, security
In Overdrive Radio this week, Executive Editor Alex Lockie and NAPTA's Raman Dhillon both offer perspective on the "non-domiciled CDL" and issues of truck driver training, vetting, and more. Get the inside story on Lockie's July report and the reasons why this little-known license has gained federal attention.
August 18, 2025
Overdrive Radio
What freight recession? Trucker of the Month insulates biz with direct customers
Ron Kelsey’s achieved something of an "owner-operator holy grail," trucking for decades now in a still-pristine modified two-stick 1981 Peterbilt 359 and hauling direct freight for customers that date back three decades for the owner.
August 11, 2025
Overdrive Radio
$2.30, $3, $10/mile: Which haul would you choose? Profit analysis might surprise you
Pull up
Overdrive
's relatively new Load Profit Analyzer tool and follow along with this detailed walk-through with owner-operator business coach and longtime
Overdrive
contributor Gary Buchs. This week's Overdrive Radio breaks down profit results from wildly divergent rates that might make you think differently about load choice.
August 4, 2025
Overdrive Radio
OOIDA, ATA, Teamsters scrum in Senate hearing: 'Driver shortage,' ELP, CDL fraud, driverless trucks, more
In this Overdrive Radio, Track back through last week’s trucking-issues Senate hearing ahead of the 2026 highway bill. From cargo theft to fraud to driverless truck regs, hours of service and non-domiciled CDLs, a lot of ground was covered.
July 28, 2025
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In-cab showers for the masses? Be Camper Sleeper's drive to deliver
What does a Ukrainian with RV-build experience do when his non-domiciled CDL gets pulled? In Ernest Kovalenko’s case, he starts a business to bring in-sleeper showers to standard-size sleepers. In Long Haul Paul's view long overdue, the conversion caused quite a stir at MATS.
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