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Prospects for a 'phenomenal' flatbed year: Trucker of the Month George Kincaid
In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, an audio window on flatbed-pulling owner-operator Kincaid’s optimism for 2025 platform freight prospects. Also: Our talk with John Rissler about the genesis of the Crossroads Truck Meet and his Horse and Buggy Accessories shop.
May 12, 2025
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Kenworth W900: History, legacy, availability through 2026, and what's in store for the W990
On Overdrive Radio this week, a deep dive with Kenworth into the history and truck owners who helped create the W900 model's legacy. It's closingout a 60-plus year production run next year. How long will you be able to order one? Details here.
May 5, 2025
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Small step after step, hundreds of truckers improving life with Mother Trucker Yoga
The Howes Hall of Fame added its 12th member when it honored Mother Trucker Yoga proprietor and fitness and wellness coach Hope Zvara -- on Overdrive Radio, she details the small steps you can take toward better fitness, mental health.
April 28, 2025
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Truck drivers' English-language proficiency and the inspection problem, other issues
The importance of English-language proficiency regs when it comes to inspections, flagged in this Overdrive Radio edition by OOIDA's Lewie Pugh and others. Said Pugh of inspectors: "They’re not getting under a truck with somebody that doesn’t speak English. I don’t blame them. I wouldn’t, either."
April 21, 2025
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'Keep digging' with Dice Mayhem's Trucking, growing dump roots to long-term small fleet success
Owner-operator Hunter Hubbard's advice for any aspiring truck owner belies her own dump trucking determination: "If you have your mind set to do it, go for it. Nothing's stopping you but yourself. ... Keep digging."
April 14, 2025
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Freight signals encouraging (for now): ATBS' annual owner-operator income update
Rates fell in 2024, and revenues for the average owner-operator continued down, yet income was up, a sure sign that successful owners tightened the belt, increasing efficiency. Compare your performance against the averages here.
April 7, 2025
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Freight markets, fraud, predatory towing, pay-to-park: Small-biz trucking challenges
Setting the issues stage for MATS, this wide-ranging discussion on small-biz and other industry-wide challenges ended with a clarion call for Congress to finish what it's started and dedicate millions in funding to free truck parking.
April 1, 2025
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
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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California 'smog check' rule 'discriminates' against out-of-state truckers: EPA
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