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2025
January
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Overdrive's 2026 Small Fleet Championship: Rules and entry form
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
The owner-operator's trucking playbook for long-term profits
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, broader considerations to keep in mind when leasing to a carrier
Evaluating carriers' pay 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
4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio
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