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Regulations
Evasive maneuver in snow mangles trucker's bumper: Preventable?
With two feet of snow having laid a thick coat of icy rutting along Rambler Road, trucker John Doe took action to avoid an oncoming dump truck sliding his way, partially in his lane, only to ram the snowbank to his right and damage the tractor.
January 20, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Be wary of third-party trucking dispatch services
Necessary knowledge for independent owner-operators in today’s world includes knowing how not to put yourself in a position to be victimized by a bad actor. Using an unregulated, uninsured dispatch service could put you at that very kind of risk.
January 10, 2025
Regulations
Snow squall on a dark Alaskan highway leads to brutal tractor-trailer collision. Preventable?
Trucker John Doe felt he couldn't have anticipated the jackknifed flatbed coming over a blind hill during a nighttime snow squall, yet his safety director issued a preventable-accident warning after he hit the trailer. He appealed the judgment ...
January 3, 2025
Trucking and Other Insurance
Other ways to save on trucking insurance
Honesty is your best policy in efforts to reduce trucking-insurance premiums. If an insurer cancels your policy over lies or misleading information it follows you like a bad smell after hitting a skunk. No matter how hard you try you can’t get rid of it.
January 1, 2025
Trucking and Other Insurance
Income replacement insurance, disability, downtime claims
The probability of an income-interrupting event over the course of your career trucking is more likely than you might think. Understanding income-replacement insurances as well as post-accident claims processes is critical.
January 1, 2025
Trucking and Other Insurance
Health insurance for owner-operators: Covering personal risks is a cost of doing business
Complicating the difficult health picture for many OTR owner-operators is inadequate health insurance coverage: nearly half of owner-operators do not carry any health insurance at all. There are paths, however, to affordable coverage.
January 1, 2025
Trucking and Other Insurance
Ways to reduce health insurance costs with plan choice, tax-deductible savings in HSAs
The basics of high-deductible plans and Health Savings Accounts, which allow for tax-deductible savings that remain entirely tax-free if used for medical expenses.
January 1, 2025
Trucking and Other Insurance
Understanding Medicare: If you're getting close to 65, it's crucial
How many times have you been led to believe that a Medicare card was tantamount to a ticket to free health care? While it's not that -- you've been paying for it your entire working career -- it can get close if you understand the options.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
Practicing safety: Resist complacency
It’s as important as ever to resist the tendency to overlook otherwise repetitive tasks necessary for a safe trucking operation on-highway, aka "safety complacency." These are a but a few things that fall on your shoulders to maintain.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
6 pre- and post-trip inspection myths, and reality
Owner-operators know how important inspections are, but much of the conventional wisdom around inspections is more fiction than fact, which in some cases can lead to OOS violations.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
Following the rules of the road, and how they follow you: Inspections, violations and safety scores
The cat's long been out of the bag on federal safety scoring within the CSA program. Managing inspection, violation and crash data associated with your business starts with minding the small stuff with respect to maintenance and other rules of the road.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
Significant hours of service change: FMCSA's 2020 split-sleeper provision changes, explained
Most owner-operators feel professional truckers should be able to "split as they see fit," yet current rules at least allow for ways to get hours of rest during the workday without penalizing yourself on time available to drive.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
What's appropriate as 'personal conveyance' in the logbook or ELD under the hours rules?
This video, part of the Trucking Law series originally, explains regulatory guidance around "personal conveyance," making clear what is/isn't acceptable off-duty movement of the truck under the hours of service.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
How to challenge erroneous violation and crash data: FMCSA's DataQs system
Challenging erroneously assigned inspections or crashes, or incorrectly written violations and those tied to citations thrown out in a court of law ... if you're an independent owner-operator with motor carrier authority, it's your responsibility.
January 1, 2025
Safety and Compliance
Preventable or not? When to use DataQs to request crash reviews for preventability
A "nonpreventable" judgment excludes the crash from computation of the CSA scores associated with your business/leasing motor carrier's record in the system, thus ensuring you're not penalized for an accident you had no way of preventing.
January 1, 2025
Business Management
Tools for the on-highway back office: Computers, mobile devices, internet
Online trucking resources, combined with ever-cheaper digital tools, can help owner-operators work faster, smarter, more profitably.
January 1, 2025
Business Management
Controlling fuel costs, improving efficiency critical to any owner-operator's survival
Reducing your speed, limiting idle time and using technology to your advantage are among myriad ways to help improve the bottom line by increasing fuel efficiency.
January 1, 2025
Business Management
Fuel taxes: Finding the cheapest fuel about more than the pump price
You cannot reduce your tax outlay unless you choose hauls that avoid high-tax states. What you have more control over is how much you pay strictly for fuel when the fuel tax is not considered. Much of the tax is imposed at the state level.
January 1, 2025
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