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Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ
Clifford C. Hay Inc., up from ashes, with new hurdles after crashes: Small Fleet Champ update
After taking over the family biz in 1999 with one truck, Clifford Hay II built well beyond a single unit, showing plenty resiliency and commitment to customers. Hay was a 2025 Small Fleet Champ finalist, and with the 2026 July 31 entry deadline fast approaching, the owner's regrouping after another big hit.
July 9, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Turnage & Sons' size balancing act with organic bulk milk: Small Fleet Champ update
After growing the fleet to as many as 40 trucks, Robbie Turnage found balance right around 30 trucks to ensure equipment's maintained, drivers and customers taken care of. With time running out before the July 31 Small Fleet Champ entry deadline, the 2025 finalist noted change on that front. He never expected he'd haul milk from the Southeast to California.
July 7, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Small Fleet Champ: Last month to enter! And: Meet Mike Singleton, chroncling life OTR
On Overdrive Radio, a personal call to beat the July 31 deadline to compete in Overdrive's Small Fleet Championship, and: Former trucker Mike Singleton's story of OTR inspiration for his "Blacktop Chronicles" ongoing effort to give voice to trials and tribulations of working owners, drivers.
July 6, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Just one month left to compete for Small Fleet Champ: Enter here
On the line for four 3-30-truck finalist owners are membership benefits through NASTC and a trip to Nashville for the championship event this fall. That's not to mention bragging rights, plenty industry recognition and that vaunted title belt. Enter by July 31 to compete via this short form.
July 6, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business
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Overdrive
2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.
May 18, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Championship for 2026: Enter now
Get in the ring to compete for the title belt! Overdrive's 2026 Small Fleet Championship is now open to competitors among trucking companies operating 3 to 30 trucks with authority. Test your trucking mettle: Enter today.
May 17, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Overdrive's 2026 Small Fleet Championship
Do you have what it takes? Enter the 2026 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 2025 year-end are eligible.
May 1, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Roadside war stories, camaraderie, ownership advice: Small Fleet Champs deliver
This week's edition of Overdrive Radio drops into the Small Fleet Champ awards ceremony and a side roundtable talk with the four finalists: Clifford Hay Inc., Thomasville Furniture Xpress, Turnage & Sons, and Oberman Logistics. The owners traded war stories from hefty tow bills (how's $15K for four miles) and plenty tried-and-true advice for the move from one truck to many.
November 3, 2025
Life
'America's Best Drivers' and new NASTC Ambassadors: The 2025 small-trucking team
Meet NASTC's "America's Best Drivers" team, with a combined 585 years and 51M-plus accident-free miles of experience. NASTC also honored three initial inductees into a group it's calling its Transportation Ambassadors, who help reach the public with "a true image of what you guys are all about,” NASTC's president told small fleets and owner-operators.
October 30, 2025
Business
ELD-data engagement: Your insurance premiums could depend on it
More and more, insurers work with small fleets and owner-ops' ELD systems to capture telematics data as a window on driving behavior, with potential to save on insurance costs. Engaging with the data yourself could be revealing about your own or your drivers' habits, noted one small fleet consultant, presenting opportunity to actively improve.
October 28, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
TFX, Oberman come out on top: Overdrive's 2025 Small Fleet Champs
Taking home the Small Fleet Champ title belts in their respective categories were Thomasville Furniture Xpress owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis in the 11-30-truck category, and Oberman Logistics and its owners, Wes and Laura Oberman, in the 3-10-truck class.
October 24, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Turnage, TFX, Oberman, Clifford Hay advance to Small Fleet Champ final round
Turnage & Sons LLC, Thomasville Furniture Xpress, Oberman Logistics and Clifford Hay Inc. -- all are mastering the fine arts of trucking-biz management in myriad ways. Two Small Fleet Champs among these finalists will walk away with the title belts at NASTC's annual conference Oct. 23 in Nashville.
October 3, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Diversification key to weathering down market for Hallahan Transport
Diversification has been the name of the game for 10-truck step deck and milk tanker-hauler Hallahan Transport during the challenging trucking market conditions seen for the last several years. Hallahan repeats as a Small Fleet Champ semi-finalist in 2025, out of La Crosse, Wisconsin.
September 30, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
LTL furniture specialist TFX lays solid ground for growth, profit, support
Thomasville Furniture Xpress owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis both got their start in the trucking business as owner-operators decades ago. Today, after long careers centered in the LTL furniture space out of North Carolina, their small fleet is poised for continued growth, profits, and service excellence.
September 25, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Skin in the leased owner's game: Oberman Logistics' simple, transparent plan for expansion
Owner-operator Wes Oberman and his business partner and wife, Laura, have built a home for leased owner-operators at their Tennessee-based fleet with a promise of transparent, simple fees -- and clear investment in the success of their business partners. Growth has been steady over six years.
September 23, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Derrick Wolfe has built a 'sweet' business in New York's Finger Lakes region
Derrick Wolfe grew his New York-based food grade tanker fleet from one truck to nearly 30, and he's still on the road daily to stay connected with his drivers, customers, and the open road. Derrick Wolfe Trucking is a semi-finalist for Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ award.
September 18, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Mission Complete: Veteran small fleet owner's legion of local support
Scott Smithler trucked through war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan but managed to bring home peace and prosperity with a family biz whose missions are mostly local/regional, ending at home near every night.
September 16, 2025
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ semi-finalists not afraid to get their hands dirty
Turnage and Sons' father-son team of Robbie and Levi Turnage, and MRL Transport owner Mark Ledford, illustrate value in hands-on operations, training, leadership underpinning their long-term success.
September 15, 2025
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