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Overdrive's 2025 Small Fleet Championship: Rules and entry form

Saving, investing for yourself and a well-deserved retirement

Qualified retirement plans: Know your options to maximize returns

Owner-op resources: State and other trucking associations, agencies, business information, more

The Partners in Business owner-operator glossary: Defining key trucking terminology

Getting your own authority: Basics of filing, insurance and avoiding common mistakes

Going independent: Motor carrier authority brings risks, rewards

What are your rights, recourse options when a broker doesn’t pay?

Beware of double brokers: Getting involved with one can be a huge knock on credibility

Keep an open mind -- eyes and ears, too -- for new customer opportunities

Plan your trucking compliance duties, systems before going independent

Be wary of fine print in broker/direct customer agreements and contracts

Insurance to defend against the downhill threat of post-crash litigation

Small fleet expansion requires investment in people, systems, self-education

How to get access to military freight

Owner-operator tax obligations start with required truck registration

Income tax and other taxes: Understanding the importance of recordkeeping for deductions

The owner-operator's role in tax preparation: More than just bookkeeping

Ways to handle per-diem and depreciation deductions and cut against common tax myths

Truck lease v. truck purchase: A tax analysis

How, and when it makes sense, to file as an S Corp to save on self-employment taxes

Quick-hit tips for truckers to save on taxes and guard against IRS audit risk

FMCSA delays broker-authority 'immediate suspension,' other regs provisions

Trucking insurance: What's necessary, and what owner-operators can expect to pay

Commercial auto liability: Independents' biggest insurance expense

Physical damage, other important trucking insurance coverages

Other ways to save on trucking insurance

Income replacement insurance, disability, downtime claims

Health insurance for owner-operators: Covering personal risks is a cost of doing business

Ways to reduce health insurance costs with plan choice, tax-deductible savings in HSAs

Understanding Medicare: If you're getting close to 65, it's crucial

Practicing safety: Resist complacency

6 pre- and post-trip inspection myths, and reality

Following the rules of the road, and how they follow you: Inspections, violations and safety scores

Significant hours of service change: FMCSA's 2020 split-sleeper provision changes, explained

What's appropriate as 'personal conveyance' in the logbook or ELD under the hours rules?

How to challenge erroneous violation and crash data: FMCSA's DataQs system

Preventable or not? When to use DataQs to request crash reviews for preventability

Keen fixed, variable cost understanding key to owner-operator success

There's much more to earnings than per-mile pay for leased owner-operators: Understanding revenue

Bookkeeping: Among the most important tasks for owner-operators to master

Profit and loss statements: Tracking, analyzing your progress to effectively compete

Old-school, tried-and-true ways to simplify record-keeping

Tools for the on-highway back office: Computers, mobile devices, internet

Controlling fuel costs, improving efficiency critical to any owner-operator's survival

More smart practices: Controlling fuel costs, improving efficiency, understanding fuel surcharges

Fuel taxes: Finding the cheapest fuel about more than the pump price

Controlling tire costs: Keep your No. 2 variable expense to a minimum

Good habits behind the wheel and in the shop key to long tire life

Time management can make or break an owner-operator's business

Mapping out a successful trucking week

Know the value of your time: Notes on paying yourself and business profits

Calculate any load's cost in relation to time, not just miles

Acquiring your first truck: Purchase or lease?

Move equipment financing terms to your favor

Used trucks: How to evaluate a rig to protect long-term value prospects

Ways to assess truck market value for purchase, trade or sale, insurance

There's plenty to consider before entering a lease-purchase agreement with a motor carrier

Traditional loan, TRAC lease, full-service lease: Making the comparison

How to improve your credit rating for better truck-loan interest, and so much more

The case for trailer ownership -- and tips on spec'ing the wagon

Routine preventive maintenance will pay owner-operator dividends long-term

Effective PM starts when you buy the truck: How to deal with dealer service

Save money, and stay out of inspectors' crosshairs, with smart maintenance

Aftertreatment demons: Keep your diesel emissions system clean to prolong life

Pull off extended oil drains for your diesel with routine analysis

Beating predatory truck tows -- the Partners in Business guide

What it takes to be your own boss: The truck owner-operator's playbook for success

Creating your financial map: The basics of business planning

Trucking business services providers: What they do, and how to pick one

Managing the trucking money: Best practices for healthy cash flow

Debt resources: Last-resort backstop to cash-flow crises

With ID theft on the rise, guarding your trucking business is a necessity

How to choose a business structure that works best for your operation

'Beneficial Ownership Information' reporting required of some small businesses

The costs -- and broader considerations -- to keep in mind when leasing to a carrier

Evaluating carriers' compensation packages starts with knowing your own numbers

The skinny on mileage v. percentage pay in trucking company lease contracts

Trucking self-dispatch: How to get comfortable, and master the process

Finding your niche haul: The tradeoffs and triumphs in freight specialization

Preventive health maintenance to ensure you cross the trucking finish line

4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio

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