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Business
ELD-data engagement: Your insurance premiums could depend on it
More and more, insurers work with small fleets and owner-ops' ELD systems to capture telematics data as a window on driving behavior, with potential to save on insurance costs. Engaging with the data yourself could be revealing about your own or your drivers' habits, noted one small fleet consultant, presenting opportunity to actively improve.
October 28, 2025
Business
Truckers' 2025 Highway Report Card: Worst roads, states, parking
Truckers grade the 48 continental United States for highway maintenance and expansion, congestion pressure and parking infrastructure. Ahead of the 2026 expiration of the most recent highway bill, this report charts a path for funding to where it's most needed.
October 23, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Taking control: Owner-op cost and revenue, income, wider trucking trends
In this Overdrive Radio edition, follow along with the latest semi-annual ATBS owner-op trends session, charting performance metrics against which you can measure your own performance. A key metric to consider, too, to ID when the iron is hot -- not in the freight market broadly but in the run of your own day-to-day business.
October 20, 2025
Partners in Business
ATBS 2025 owner-operator trends mid-year update: Download the full presentation slides
Overdrive Partner in Business ATBS delivered its owner-op income benchmarking presentation a couple weeks back. This week, access full audio/video, and here dowload presentation slides charting cost, revenue and income trends among ATBS's tens of thousands of clients.
October 20, 2025
Partners in Business
Cargo theft proliferation ups the ante on truckers' prevention
Prospects can be slim for freight recovery and apprehension of thieves after freight's stolen. Prevention of theft to begin with is what owner-operators and fleets should prioritize most, as a new report and tried-and-true preventive practices suggest.
October 15, 2025
Partners in Business
Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer: How to use to assess rates, costs
This video tutorial walks owner-operators through simple steps that will help unlock insights to drive the business forward profitably, whether analyzing load offers on the front end or holding yourself accountable after the run's in the bag.
October 8, 2025
Partners in Business
'Foreign driver capacity' hit incoming? Fleets watch, as owner-op income back on a slow rise
Many around trucking hope for a "catalyzing event" delivering demand improvement, increased freight volumes, better rates. For most owner-operators who've weathered the storm, income is on a slowly rising track the last year and a half, and wider market conditions are setting up for stability, if not guaranteed improvement.
October 1, 2025
Partners in Business
Start up at the bottom of the business cycle? Notes on going independent
Even with the lackluster freight markets of the last few years, motivated owner-operators new to small business trucking are finding ways not just to survive, but to thrive. Discover characteristics of small-biz truckers who have what it takes to start strong as an independent.
September 24, 2025
Partners in Business
Freight finally stabilizing? Second 2025 owner-operator trends data session upcoming
Twice annually,
Overdrive
's
Partners in Business coproducer ATBS provides analysis of operational and financial performance trends for owner-operators, the tax and business service provider's principal clients now for decades in business services. Tune into the next live session Tuesday, September 30, at 5 p.m. Central.
September 23, 2025
Overdrive Extra
'Personal cyber hygiene' for owner-ops to help avoid scammers online
Cyber crooks get more and more creative with their tactics, yet there's plenty ways individual truckers play defense, starting with what two NMTFA cybersecurity experts call "personal cyber hygiene." An ongoing educational series goes deeper with two more sessions starting today, Sept. 17.
September 17, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Throw out your GPS: Trucking trip planning the old-school way
Eric Schmidt is convinced that GPS kills brain cells and recommends an old-school but practical way to meticulously plan trips: An atlas, a truck stop book, a few notebooks and the old CB radio.
September 17, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Don't judge the next-generation book by its cover: CDL training for the future
Jackson Brosmore wasn't a "classroom kind of student," but a new high school CDL program helped him find his path, and intrastate commercial driving privileges, bolstering a healthy work ethic and options for the future.
September 10, 2025
Regulations
Risk rear-end hit from a tailgating four-wheeler or destroy a railroad signal arm? Trucker John Doe's choice
Doe makes his choice, and the results are dramatic -- including a preventable-accident warning letter from his safety director. How'd the National Safety Council rule in this "Preventable or not?" series installment? Find out in the video.
September 9, 2025
Partners in Business
Why your trucking insurance premums keep rising (and ways to stop the bleeding)
Owner-operators who get their own authority often are surprised by how costly, complex and time-consuming liability coverage can be, especially as a startup. Here's some ways to control costs, even with average premiums as high as they've ever been.
August 27, 2025
Partners in Business
Controlling tire costs: Spec for performance, value long-term
Beyond price, what truly matters in a truck tire? In this guide, part of Overdrive's Partners in Business playbook, insights on how to spec for both performance and value to keep costs in line over the long term, and get the most out of every mile.
August 20, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Proper pressure -- key for tire, driver longevity and owner-ops' bottom lines
Among trucking's hyper-fuel-economy-seeking set, adding an extra 10 psi is a common practice. Yet this small fleet owner himself found matching pressure to the load as recommended delivers longer tire life, worth well more to an owner's bottom line. Not to mention: better handling, traction, ride quality, even long-term health.
August 19, 2025
Overdrive Radio
$2.30, $3, $10/mile: Which haul would you choose? Profit analysis might surprise you
Pull up
Overdrive
's relatively new Load Profit Analyzer tool and follow along with this detailed walk-through with owner-operator business coach and longtime
Overdrive
contributor Gary Buchs. This week's Overdrive Radio breaks down profit results from wildly divergent rates that might make you think differently about load choice.
August 4, 2025
Maintenance
LED failures: How many individual diodes going dark will net a violation?
The question is a tricky one to answer, and will vary by light position and design. Additionally, as any working owner-operator knows, no two truck inspectors are the same. Diodes do fail, though, and Overdrive sister publication TPS outlined the reasons here with experts.
August 1, 2025
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