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Evaluate earning potential with Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer
Armed with cost-per-mile and/or per-day, use the analyzer to evaluate the profit potential of any load offer -- even compare multiple loads -- or game out scenarios for bidding purposes. Get started here.
July 28, 2025
Business
What Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' legislation means for owner-operator taxes
A new guide from business services provider ATBS offers details about how Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will impact owner-operators at tax time. Also: Lane reductions on I-5 bridge in Seattle; latest Highway Angel.
July 21, 2025
Regulations
Trucker John Doe v. Porsche's Grand Prix-style pass on city road: Preventable or not?
John Doe's haul through city traffic is violently interrupted by an impatient driver of a yellow Porsche in the midst of what can only be described as a Grand Prix-style maneuver. Could the crash be anything other than nonpreventable?
July 18, 2025
Partners in Business
Filing 2290 use tax: A truck owner-operator's guide
Don't miss those tax deadlines! This guide covers crucial owner-operator filings associated with the truck itself, including Form 2290 use taxes (annual filings are open, and due 9/2 for most this year), state registration, and the International Registration Plan (IRP).
July 14, 2025
Business
Diesel prices back on the rise: Here's how to determine real fuel cost
Pump price minus taxes = Real fuel cost. The key to finding the cheapest fuel is to know the current fuel tax rates, both federal and state, and any state surcharges. Subtract taxes to find the raw fuel cost in each state, then buy where fuel is cheapest. Sometimes, that's where the pump price is highest.
July 2, 2025
Partners in Business
Owner-op biz planning is everything when trucking hits the famine of a down cycle
By budgeting for downturns with routine emergency savings, tracking costs per day and per mile, and making disciplined decisions about fuel efficiency and load choice, effective planners not only stayed in business during the long downturn. Many increased take-home income, even in the 2024 freight-rates famine.
June 25, 2025
Regulations
Trucker's turn-lane collision with errant school bus: Preventable or not?
A city school bus driver started to turn left next to trucker John Doe's rig but didn’t turn sharply enough and moved partially into Doe’s lane. Doe stopped dead, sounding his horn, to no avail ... Blammo! Was the accident preventable on Doe's part? Find out here.
June 20, 2025
Partners in Business
A tool to help assess truck market value for purchase, sale, insurance purposes
Every truck buyer, likewise every seller, should embrace some sense of reality to avoid costly missteps. Use this tool from Overdrive sister company Price Digests to get a good assessment of current market value for any truck model.
June 18, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Trucker marketing 101: How small fleets and owner-operators stand out online
Small trucking companies operate in extra-competitive markets. A few well-placed online assets can help you engage more clients and show your audience that you might be a small biz, but you're professional and reliable enough for big contracts.
June 11, 2025
Partners in Business
Fickle freight on spot load boards can't build the customer base for you
Too many truckers rely solely on big broker boards as a primary source for freight, leaving owners at the mercy of fast spot market fluctuations. It can to lead to short-term thinking and inconsistent revenue.
June 4, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Knowing what 'might' work isn't enough: How four owner-ops learn from biz failures
The owner-operator brain trust that is the Trucking Solutions Group lent us a window into their decades of combined experience at MATS in a panel discussion called "Failing! ... to Succeed," acknowledging there's a whole heck of a lot all of us learn from our own, and others', failures.
June 2, 2025
Partners in Business
Get dinged during Roadcheck? Here's how to correct inspectors' mistakes
Use FMCSA's DataQs system to challenge erroneously assigned inspections or crashes, or incorrectly written violations and those tied to citations thrown out in court. If you're an independent owner-operator with motor carrier authority, it's your responsibility.
May 22, 2025
Overdrive Extra
When an exit plan becomes a liability: For sale by owner-op, Part 2
When selling a piece of truck equipment yourself, loosely conceived agreements with a purchaser that involve nothing more than a verbal discussion between seller and buyer -- it happens quite often in this business -- can be recipes for disaster.
May 21, 2025
Overdrive Extra
For sale by owner-operator: Notes on the big unload at retirement
Unloading our trucks at the point of retirement isn’t an absolute necessity, especially for the custom-restorers in the audience, yet there’s something to learn from these two tales of recent sales-in-progress as owners wind down business.
May 13, 2025
Custom Rigs
Every smart mod to Trucker of the Year's 4M-mile 1995 KW T600
With 2024 Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber's long career coming to a close and his long-running T600 up for sale, this video look at the rig's modifications show his prioritization of efficiency, increased comfort and durability. Also: His custom dashcam solution, dating back to 2013.
May 8, 2025
Partners in Business
Following rules of the road, and how they follow you: Violations, safety scores
Roadcheck is less than a week away, May 13-15. With inspectors keying in on false HOS logs and tires, brush up on ways to stay out of the crosshairs in this Partners in Business primer on road rules and safety scoring impacts.
May 7, 2025
Overdrive Extra
How to brand your owner-operator trucking business when you don’t own the trailer
You're pulling a huge, mobile advertising opportunity every day -- an ideal place (particularly for dry vans and reefers) to put company signage. Yet if you don't own the trailer, branding the business is possible in all sorts of ways as a tool for growth.
April 26, 2025
Partners in Business
Truck-spec, goal-setting lessons from two decades as an owner
In the annual PIB conversation with Red Eye Radio at MATS, longtime owner-operator and
Overdrive
contributor Gary Buchs detailed an "a-ha moment" with this career retrospective: what his peers had to say about his purchase of the Freightliner Century he drove for two decades --
"It's a fleet truck!"
April 23, 2025
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