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Starting Line
With ID theft on the rise, guarding your trucking business is a necessity
A proliferation of sophisticated identity theft schemes are aimed at trucking companies. It’s important to understand how to protect your business' profile from the jump as an owner-operator.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
How to choose a business structure that works best for your operation
There are several ways to set up an owner-operator business, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Find out which works best for you.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
The costs, broader considerations to keep in mind when leasing to a carrier
For any owner-operator, it's expensive to switch carriers, so keep these things in mind if you're in the market for a new business partner to lease to.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
Evaluating carriers' pay packages: Start with your own numbers
While comparing pay packages is time-consuming, the key is to start with an understanding of how much you need to make each month to cover expenses. Only then will you know whether a pay package is a good deal for you.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
The skinny on mileage v. percentage pay in trucking lease contracts
An owner-operator running on percentage shares the brunt of market conditions with the carrier, earning less money in bad times, whereas a mileage program in such times can be an attractive safety net as long as the freight's there.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
Trucking self-dispatch: How to get comfortable, and master the process
Effectively self-dispatching may well be the most difficult task an owner-operator business is saddled with. There are a seemingly unending number of moving pieces that will affect the outcome of any decision made about any load.
January 1, 2026
Starting Line
Finding your niche haul: The tradeoffs and triumphs in freight 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, but with that comes added expenses in many cases.
January 1, 2026
Trucker of the Year
Kelsey, Penn, Shelly: Overdrive's 2025 Trucker of the Year finalists
Down to the wire in 2025, it's due time to celebrate what's been a year full of inspiring stories of triumph over adversity for Overdrive's Trucker of the Year contenders. Big congrats to all 10 competitors in the field, and especially this year's finalists, three independents at the top of their owner-operator business game.
December 26, 2025
Voices
POLL: Owner-ops, what's your biz outlook headed into 2026?
Get ready to turn the page on a new year -- weigh in here with your trucking business outlook for 2026.
December 25, 2025
Partners in Business
'Costs are just crazy': 42% of truckers expect to be priced out of health coverage as ACA subsidies expire
A recent Overdrive survey of owner-operators suggests a 2026 shift back to the uninsured rolls for many when it comes to health coverage -- that is, unless Congress extends 2021's enhanced subsidies for middle-income purchasers on the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Underlying plan costs, meanwhile, just continue to rise.
December 17, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Year 'exit interviews,' Part 2: Flatbedder's edition
This podcast episode concludes Overdrive's Trucker of the Year "exit interviews" series, and features an all-flatbedders group. With updates from a tough yet successful year, you’ll hear more than a bit of what some call "bygone" driver camaraderie amongst the four owners featured around -- what else? -- the subject of tarping.
December 8, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Catastrophic engine failure delivers customer calamity: How these owners prep for the worst
The "exit interviews," round 1, with four 2025 Trucker of the Year contenders, with the big push to the opportunity a new year always brings to set goals, lay plans and start acting on them. Yet it’s also true that in so many ways the time for that is now -- for any small trucking business, at any given moment.
December 1, 2025
Regulations
Prepare to yield? Camaro's kamikaze pass in downtown Chicago nets crash review
One-way westbound multi-lane road, downtown Chicago, 10 a.m. Truck driver John Doe tangles with a Camaro attempting to squeak by on his right to miss construction barriers. Preventable? Or not.
November 28, 2025
Equipment
The push to 12 mpg: How Joel Morrow's doing it with this VNL spec
For owner-operators, fuel mileage improvement once depended in large part on speed. In order to maximize fuel economy, "you were driving 55 miles an hour," notes Joel Morrow in this new video about the "Purple Haze 2" VNL860, "agressively downsped" to achieve high torque at lower rpms. Slowing down still works, but powertrain specs contribute mightily.
November 25, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Truckers' tools to prevent fuel fraud, from complex AI to simple cybersecurity self-help
At the annual NASTC conference, Wex's security team leader emphasized the human element in fuel-fraud prevention as the biggest factor any size carrier can address to make the most gains in preventing losses, empowering themselves through self-education and passing it on to team members.
November 24, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Pay wish list: Leased-owner, company-driver preferences v. reality
Comparisons between how owners and drivers are paid today and how they'd most prefer to be paid show one thing clearly: Compensation for all time worked should be a priority for fleets who want to deliver on owners, drivers' desires.
November 21, 2025
Overdrive Radio
J.P. Transport's journey to maximum trucking efficiency
With a very low operating ratio given his business’s efficiency, owner-operator John Penn is doing plenty right. His home life is benefiting, too, as a result. In this week's Overdrive Radio, dive in with Penn from the very beginning, when he first got his CDL around the turn of the century, the start of a journey toward max trucking efficiency.
November 17, 2025
Maintenance
What owner-ops are doing to extend oil drains: Limiting idle time is paramount
Limiting idle time is just one among several tactics owner-operators flagged as crucial to ensure engine oil is performing in peak condition while extending oil drain intervals. Others include bypass filtration, routine oil analysis, increasingly commonly used fuel additives to promote cleaner burns.
November 13, 2025
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