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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
Equipment
Roadside assistance networks: The best hedge against predatory towing?
When the truck's down OTR at the roadside, service-assistance networks promise protection against predatory towing and other expensive options, but how do they keep the bad actors out? Insight here from an insurer and one network itself.
April 21, 2025
Partners in Business
Niche hauls: How to find yours, and tradeoffs and triumphs of specialization
Specializing in a freight niche -- heavy-haul, auto hauling, livestock, the list goes on -- can add to an owner-operator’s earning potential with higher-paying loads. The tradeoff? It comes with added expenses in many cases.
April 16, 2025
Overdrive Radio
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
Trucker of the Year
Accumulated wisdom of 34 years, 4.1 million miles: Trucker of the Year honored at MATS
In this video, track through owner-op Alan Kitzhaber's career and catch the moment he was presented with the 1/42nd-scale model of his 1995 Kenworth T600, "trophy" for the big win. Here, the full interview with Overnight Drive radio host Steve Sommers.
April 2, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Year honored at MATS with replica of his T600, Bostrom seat
Alan Kitzhaber's legendary run putting down more than 4,000,000 miles in a 1995 Kenworth T600 comes to an end with a bang as Overdrive honors the owner-operator as Trucker of the Year.
March 28, 2025
Partners in Business
Good news, bad news: Owner-operator revenue down, but income finally rising
Savings on fuel and operational shifts (better efficiency, more miles, length of haul shifts or other adjustments) led income to rise in 2024 for owner-operators -- a first in the last three years. That's despite continuing rates and revenue decline.
March 27, 2025
Business
Owner-ops see trucking insurance savings with tech, shopping around
Investing in technology -- and utilizing it to improve safety -- can have a notable impact on trucking insurance premiums. Depending on your situation, it could also pay off to shop around prior to renewal.
March 21, 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
Business
How to navigate the trucking insurance market to save at renewal
Insurance accounts for one of an independent owner-op's highest fixed costs. It comes due regardless of how much you work or how hard you run. Know what insurance companies look for, and what you can do to make your business a better risk, to save.
March 21, 2025
Partners in Business
Have freight markets turned? ATBS update set for March 25
Expect answers from our Partners in Business coproducer ATBS, just ahead of MATS, with the firm's semi-annual update charting owner-operator 2024 revenue, cost, and income benchmarks derived from tens of thousands of clients' real-world performance.
March 14, 2025
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