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Regulations
FMCSA really cracking the whip on 'bad actor' CDL schools?
After being called out for not policing bad CDL schools, FMCSA has removed almost 60 facilities from its training provider registry, but the providers themselves report being out of business for years.
June 11, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Consistency, focus on long-term relationship value: Trucker of the Month Rufus Morris
Morris you can for sure call a little old-school in approach, yet he clearly keeps an eye on new ways and new people, too. In today’s episode of Overdrive Radio, you’ll hear from him a clear priority placed on business relationships invested in, cemented over time.
June 9, 2025
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Regulations
Truckers explain support for English language proficiency requirements
English language enforcement has 94% approval among owner-operators and other truckers surveyed by Overdrive.
June 9, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Overdrive's 2025 Trucker of the Year competition: Enter your business
We're halfway through the entry period for the 2025 Trucker of the Year competition. Read about our semi-finalists named thus far via our nomination page. All have persevered through freight-market difficulties and cost pressures in these last years. If that describes you, too, you’re no doubt a worthy contender. Click/tap the image to enter your own biz or another owner-operator you admire.
June 7, 2025
Equipment
What if your trailer could take the load off your diesel?
The Range Energy company's goal is in part to answer the question. Its electric-drive, retrofit-capable eTrailer System to power trailers (and reefer units) could be one to keep an eye on as it comes into production, expected next year.
June 6, 2025
Equipment
'Big Beautiful Bill' AI provisions could halt state driverless bans | Senator pushes investigation of Chinese automated trucking company
Budget legislation's provision to halt state regulation of AI modified in Senate committee. Also: Reports indicated TuSimple violated an agreement with the U.S. government by sending sensitive information about driving tech to Chinese state-linked entities; Truck Parking Club hits another milestone; Truckstop's founder returns as interim CEO.
June 6, 2025
Life
Booming interest in English classes in the nation's ELP violation capital
Laredo, Texas, is on the front lines of English language enforcement in trucking, and now English classes are taking off, according to the Laredo Motor Carriers Association.
June 5, 2025
Equipment
Will CARB's emissions deal with truck makers survive Congress' waiver revocation?
CARB and the Clean Freight Coalition are at odds over whether California's deal with truck and engine manufacturers will persist despite Congress voting to disapprove of EPA waivers granted to CARB. Also: Diesel hits lowest average since 2021; virtual 5K to benefit St. Christopher Fund.
June 4, 2025
Custom Rigs
Kenny Ziglar's 'Scrapin' By' 2007 Peterbilt 379 wins top honors at SuperRigs
Wyoming-based Kenny Ziglar took home Best of Show honors from the 2025 Shell Rotella SuperRigs truck show held this past weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia.
June 2, 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
Trucker of the Year
Back to business: Rufus Morris finds stability, long-term value with leasing partner
A year and a half ago, the North Carolina-based Morris got an unexpected offer from a valued freight partner. Taking it, his oversize-steel bread and butter has the business poised for long-term success after decades trucking. The owner-operator is
Overdrive
's Trucker of the Month for May.
May 30, 2025
Custom Rigs
Owner-operator Troy Bolin's V8 Cat 3408-powered 1979 Peterbilt 359
Bull-hauling owner-operator Bolin grew up fascinated with the 359, knowing its prior owner. When it came up for sale in 1991, he bought it and has held onto it since. Here, he offers a detailed history of the Cat V8-powered 302-inch wheelbase rig, a real rarity.
May 29, 2025
Regulations
Trump's English language proficiency mandate extremely popular with truckers: Survey
Overdrive collected a vast array of opinions and perspectives on President Donald Trump's English language proficiency crackdown and review of non-domiciled CDLs and found overwhelming support.
May 29, 2025
Regulations
Another legal blow to the trucking case against California's AB 5 contractor law
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against OOIDA's challenge to the state's AB 5 independent contractor classification law, which jeopardizes the business models of leased owner-operators.
May 28, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Honoring a father's legacy with Tim Eacret of EZ Pete Interiors
There are some dads who, in not giving their children everything they’d like materially, wind up giving them something of far greater value. That describes the father of Tim Eacret, proprietor of truck-upholstery specialist EZ Pete Interiors, who honors his dad's legacy in this week's Overdrive Radio.
May 26, 2025
Regulations
Oklahoma bill: $3,000 fines for drivers who can't speak English, prove identity
The Oklahoma Secure Roads and Safe Trucking Act of 2025 imposes $3,000 penalties for drivers who can't prove their identity, produce a valid work visa, or communicate in English.
May 23, 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
Channel 19
Meeting an out-of-service, non-citizen driver who can't read English
A conversation with a foreign driver revealed his support for Trump's English language proficiency mandate as an instrument toward his own personal growth.
May 21, 2025
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