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Preventive health maintenance to ensure you cross the trucking finish line

7-step in-cab workout plan for long-term trucking

Saving, investing for yourself and a well-deserved retirement

Qualified retirement plans: Know your options to maximize returns

For sale by owner-operator: Managing the big unload at retirement

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: Building business to sustain with motor carrier authority

Master the fine art of negotiation: Resist freight-rates capitulation in today's go-go-go spot markets

Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer: How to use to assess rates, costs

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

Getting closer to the customer: Freight relationships beyond broker boards

Do-or-die preps for the New Entrant audit, required for all new carriers

Be wary of carrier traps in broker/customer agreements and contracts: Additional insured, offsetting, more

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

Hauling for FEMA: For an owner-operator, is it worth the complicated set-up?

Owner-operator tax obligations start with required truck registration

Owner-op income tax: The importance of recordkeeping for deductions

Congress, truckers: Let's stop hee-hawing around and get to work

Trucking tax preparation: Owner-op's role more than just bookkeeping

Handling per-diem and depreciation deductions to save, and cut against common tax myths

Truck lease v. truck purchase: A tax analysis

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

White Pine Paving's 'Change Order' 2000 W900L, revisited

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

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

Commercial auto liability: Independents' biggest insurance expense

Head off the insurance-renewal shocker: Mind open reserves, shop early

Physical damage, other important trucking insurance coverages

Dashcams, ELDs, data: How to use for trucking insurance savings

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

More to earnings than per-mile pay for leased owners: Understanding revenue

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

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

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

Fuel surcharges 101: Skinny on common per-mile structure, building profit

Getting that first OTR truck: Purchase or lease?

Move equipment financing terms to your favor

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

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

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

Evaluating carriers' pay packages: Start with your own numbers

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

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

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

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