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Overdrive Radio

Don’t have to be a ‘one-and-done’: Know your customer to survive/thrive in the first year with carrier authority

For most new independent owner-ops, emphasizes Kevin Rutherford in this edition of Overdrive Radio, the customer (fundamentally the entity that pays your business for its service) is one, a few or several brokers. Too many owner-ops fail to see or treat their brokers like a customer, without which failure is any business’ destiny. And: A view from the other side with small broker Al Zellmer.

April 20, 2018

Business

Expedite Expo staging in Ky. July 20-21

According to the organizers behind the Expedite Expo show, set to kick off July 20-21 at the Lexington Center in downtown Lexington, Ky., attendees’ two-day, time-only investment at the Expo (it’s otherwise free for owner-ops, drivers and fleet owners) will pay dividends in “expanding your industry knowledge” and more.

April 20, 2018

Business

Two-day biz-topics meeting for owner-ops

Expediter Services, offering capacity solutions and ownership opportunities within the trucking industry, will host its latest ES Group Gathering (EGG) event April 27-28 in Southaven, Miss., at the Landers Center just south of Memphis and located off I-55.

April 19, 2018

Overdrive Extra

A few points on scoring better rates from owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford

Rutherford’s take on rates, deadheading, “cheap freight,” broker relationships and more.

April 18, 2018

Overdrive Extra

What is your time worth?

“How many of us, if asked, could accurately quote what our time is worth, per hour, based on actual and complete data? No emotion, no pie in the sky guessing, just the cold hard facts.” Gary Buchs on numbers analysis toward establishing per-hour rates for healthy profit.

April 3, 2018

Business

Ariz. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio advises anti-ELD advocates keep up the fight

At a small event held Saturday, March 31, in Nashville, recently pardoned former county sheriff Arpaio admitted that, before Saturday, “I was in the dark about the occupation” of trucking and the regulatory strains on its small businesses. “This is a public relations thing – you’ve got to get the word out.”

April 2, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Podcast special edition: Lay of the land for owner-ops, by the numbers again with ATBS’ Todd Amen

This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features audio from ATBS President Todd Amen’s March 20 conference call for owner-operators outlining annual mileage, revenue and income averages from 2017, among other metrics, for segments among its clients — with a look ahead through this year.

March 20, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Technology and maximizing your most precious resource

How technology is “changing some of what I want to believe about my business,” in the words of owner-operator Gary Buchs, in this his debut on the Overdrive Extra blog. Among tech’s benefits: freeing up the resource of time “to study the markets and pursue new customers, making my business more efficient.”

March 20, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Managing ridiculous expectations handed down from brokers

A talk with small fleet owner Leander Richmond for this Overdrive Radio podcast reveals some brokers have gone so far as to make it a contract stipulation that the carrier will be required to send proof of delivery within an hour of offload – or lose all claim to payment for that load. Sound outrageous? We thought so, too, but there’s more. Take a listen.

March 7, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Partners in Business podcast: Managing your money and time

This installment in the podcast series of Overdrive’s Partners in Business, excerpting portions of the manual coproduced with ATBS, covers how to develop and use profit and loss statements, and how to understand your revenue, earnings and costs.

February 23, 2018

Business

Rates up, volumes neutral to down year over year: The story so far in February for van, flatbed

With ELD proliferation constraining capacity in trucking and pushing up rates, there’s evidence of some competition from rail/intermodal moderating volumes in van. Flatbed’s generally volume-neutral compared to this time last year.

February 15, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Partners in Business podcast: Getting started as an owner-operator

This Overdrive Radio podcast covers the first four chapters from the Partners in Business manual — from making the transition to self-employment, choosing a financial services partner, creating a strong business plan and establishing your bookkeeping.

January 31, 2018