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Partners in Business
Overdrive's new Partners in Business playbook for a truck owner-op's career
The new PIB, coproduced with ATBS, builds on the decades-old trucking business-education program for owner-operators with a reorganization and reformatting with today's pro trucker in mind. It's now a browsable online content library accessible today.
March 24, 2025
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Tony Justice: Top billing at MATS, honoring a mother's legacy, prospects for new record
Dive into a conversation with Justice that touches on plans for the big show at MATS, his Large Cars & Guitars Truck Show event in East Tennessee in May (at a new location this year), and the legacy of Momma J, the late Sharon Justice.
March 17, 2025
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February 19, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Month leans into owner-operator pride and joy, biz brass tacks
Kenny Wingate, 55 years young today, takes pride in and cousel from his lifetime in trucking, though many of the men he learned from, and some of those he came up with in trucking, have passed on. His story in his own words, here, in Overdrive Radio.
March 10, 2025
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New battery-powered aux A/C promises better ROI for small fleet with portability
To maximize returns on investment in the Fresco 9000 MaXX, Hell Bent Xpress owner Jamie Hagen says he can easily move the minimally invasive system truck to truck with trades -- and the battery in the design comes with a whopping 10-year warranty.
March 3, 2025
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Get in where you fit in: Truck parking-friendly Hotels4Truckers
The website and now mobile app got its start cataloging hotels around the nation where parking a tractor-trailer was welcomed. Today, discounted rates and on-platform booking deliver savings directly to truckers at dozens of hotel brands.
February 25, 2025
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Owner-op jailed after unwitting participation in cargo theft: Cautionary tale, mitigating risk
One owner-operator got jail time for being tricked into hauling a load for a scheming cargo thief while the "broker" walks free. In Overdrive Radio, ways to mitigate risk amid an increasingly crazy cargo theft landscape.
February 17, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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