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Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ, Round 1: Enter by June 30
The initial entry period for owners competing in Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship will end June 30. Do you have what it takes? Enter your fleet of 3 to 30 trucks for a chance at claiming the title belt.
May 20, 2022
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Fuel-market insanity: A tale of two loads, bedrock cost control, rates-management tactics
Fuel is out of hand, and in today's edition of Overdrive Radio, NASTC President David Owen and Overdrive Small Fleet Champ Jason Cowan, offer insight on why, ways to combat. Also: Tactics to keep rates where they need to be. Don't forget your best tool.
May 6, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
Enter Overdrive's 2022 Small Fleet Championship
Do you have what it takes? Enter the 2022 small-fleet competition to put your small trucking company in the running to claim the vaunted title belt. Fleets operating 3 to 30 trucks through 2021 year-end are eligible.
March 2, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
Poised for longevity, growth: Small Fleet Champ Silver Creek Transportation
On-site at headquarters in Kentucky, Silver Creek owner Jason Cowan reflects on his vision for the company's threefold recent growth, with plenty of gratitude, respect and more for all in trucking who've paved the way for the Small Fleet Champ's success.
April 21, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
The 1973 Autocar flagship of Silver Creek Transportation
Jason Cowan and his son, Zane, now overseeing maintenance at the company, several years ago restored the rig as a testament to the small fleet's beginnings, with Jason's dad's name on the door. Bobbie Cowan got his start in it hauling anhydrous ammonia.
April 20, 2022
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Back for a third year, amid turbulent times: Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship
2021 finalist Hallahan Transport's recent experience with a dramatic increase in the fuel bill, van rates sliding: long-term safety performance has paid off with a more than $30K insurance cost reduction. Prove your own mettle in this year's competition.
April 6, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
'This could be a good life': Small Fleet Champ's vision for the next generation of truck operators
Silver Creek Transportation's Jason Cowan hopes to provide the younger generation of prospective truck drivers the space to "adapt to the vision that, you know, this could be a good life" behind the wheel.
January 19, 2022
Channel 19
Revisiting the A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show, 2022 dates set
The first annual Soza Memorial Truck Show this past June, established in memory of C.G. Soza's son and prior wife (both passed in a car accident on the way to dyslexia tutoring for the young man), has set dates for its 2022 dyslexia-support goal.
December 20, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
How to pay drivers in respect, not just cash
At a time when truckers are seeing record income, fleets small and large still struggle to figure out what makes a company worth driving for. Here, an ethically-minded fleet owner explains how respecting a driver and their family pays dividends above pay.
December 7, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Small fleet roundtable: 'Co-opetition' code, balancing personal/business pursuits, more
Trucking companies can do more to embrace cooperation amongst their kind -- "I'd rather have your friendship than have your freight," Small Fleet Champ Jason Cowan said in this roundtable with fellow finalists -- where it makes sense to seed growth.
November 29, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Low-hanging fruit to avoid FMCSA's drug/alcohol Clearinghouse violations
Too many carriers fail to finish the pre-employment "full query" of the Clearinghouse -- and required driver consent delivered in the database itself -- before the operator hits the road. Auditors hit those carriers with troublesome "acute" violations.
November 8, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Silver Creek Transportation named Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ
Silver Creek was one of three finalists for the award, which was presented Thursday evening in Nashville at the National Association of Small Trucking Companies’ annual conference.
November 5, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Here are the finalists for Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ award
One of these three fleets will take home the hardware in Overdrive's second annual Small Fleet Championship.
October 29, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking mastery: Nick Hewitt and platform hauler PTSI
Nick Hewitt's mastery of the trucking business is as complete as it can be, with four decades as a driver, then owner-op, dispatcher, commissioned agent and now small fleet owner behind him. PTSI is among 10 Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists.
October 27, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Eight-truck reefer fleet Triple R Trucking rewards owner-ops for clean inspections, miles
Krystal Raue started the company in 2014 after buying equipment from her retiring father. She has kept the fleet around 10 trucks – currently at eight owner-operators – and pays drivers up to 85% of a load if they bring their own trailer.
October 25, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Suprise Trucking's long road to resurrection
Trucking nearly broke the Stoll family. Literally and figuratively. Several times. But Bryon and Holly Stoll both persevered and now own the successful and growing Suprise Trucking operation.
October 22, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Hallahan Transport guides prospective owner-ops with unique lease-purchase arrangement
Hallahan gives a driver an offer to buy the truck, who then makes Hallahan’s payments on the truck. As part of the lease-purchase program, the drivers choose what they want their take-home to be, and the rest of their paycheck goes to an escrow account.
October 20, 2021
Small Fleet Champ
Early career missteps lead to current small-fleet success for Hallahan Transport
Rob Hallahan made mistakes as an owner-operator early in his career, but after hanging out his shingle with his own authority as Hallahan Transport in 2016, he has guided the fleet to rapid growth in the last three years.
October 20, 2021
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