2024 handbook for owner-operator business, start to finish, now available

Download the new Partners in Business via this link. The 2024 edition is sponsored by Rush Truck Centers.

Say hello to the brand-new Overdrive/ATBS coproduction of the only comprehensive handbook to running an owner-operator business, from bookkeeping to maintenance and getting the best fuel mileage, shopping for and understanding insurance, and everything in between to the end: retirement, and effectively saving/investing for it. Our 2024 Partners in Business manual is now available for download at this link.

The book has long been a cornerstone for prospective and new owners making the transition from work in trucking as a company driver, yet there's a great deal more to it than that. As my colleague Gary Buchs has emphasized in his work with owner-operator clients he serves as a business coach, PIB can serve as as both a refresher and a source for new insight for experienced owners, too.

2024 Partners in Business sponsor Rush Truck Centers is the premier solutions provider to the commercial vehicle industry with 150-plus full-service dealership locations in the United States and Canada. They represent industry-leading truck brands and offer parts, service, collision repair, and a range of aftermarket solutions.As regular Overdrive readers are likely well aware, it's updated annually. This year, new material includes: 

• Ways to increase and really understand the value of time efficiency when the freight-market chips are down.
• Emphasis on necessary engagement with costs and income potential in load and pay-package evaluations.
• How to evaluate detention-compensation rates using your own numbers. 
• Resources around recognizing and combating predatory tow bills and practices.
• The latest advice around income thresholds for evaluation of any move to the S Corp business structure.
• More red flags to avoid getting hoodwinked by a double broker, plenty in the insurance realm.

New

Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer

Know your costs? Compute the potential profit in any truckload, analyze per-day and per-mile breakouts, and compare real offers on multiple loads or game out hypothetical rate/lane scenarios. Enter your trucking business's fixed and variable costs, and load information, to get started.

Try it out!

And a whole lot more where that came from.

Download the book today here.

If you're attending the Mid-America Trucking Show starting Thursday, join us at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 22, in the MATS Pro Talks Theater (B104 in the South Wing) for the official kickoff for this year's PIB program. Find ongoing updates through the year via OverdriveOnline.com/pib. Hope to see you there. 

You can download a pdf of this postcard to share via this link. The newly updated Partners in Business handbook for owners is available now via this link.