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Channel 19

Remembering Carl Rhodes — with his son, Rick — after well more than a half century trucking

Rhodes was a fixture of Morgantown, W.Va.-area trucking business since his own father hauled pulpwood in a 1932 Ford. Carl passed August 14, 2020.

November 6, 2017

Channel 19

Rates up: A result of last week’s ELD protests?

Rates haven’t been as good as they were last week since the Snowpocalypse of 2014, notes DAT’s Ken Harper. But before you attribute that to the number of owner-operators who shut down last week in solidarity with ELD protests around the country, consider truck posts on DAT boards weren’t off by much. Reefer, van demand updates here.

October 11, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Voices on the call for a shutdown starting October 3

This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast takes a run through the mailbag following last week’s conversations with organizers of two ELD mandate protest actions set to take place in Washington, D.C., beginning Oct. 3.

September 23, 2017

Business

Spot update shows high demand across the country — vans, flats in detail, disaster-relief opportunities, more

Freight lanes re-orient North-South as demand picture shifts for dry vans. Some platform opportunity exists, notes FEMA contractor Foxhole Logistics, and in general terms the typical late-September-beginning fall freight season may be getting an early start.

September 14, 2017

Overdrive Extra

ATBS forecasts higher owner-operator income

Amen revisited his forecasts from last year and made some new ones during an Overdrive Partners in Business seminar at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas last month.

September 6, 2017

Business

August shaping up well on the spot market, all things considered — van, reefer updates

For vans, reefers, signs still point for strong rates for this time of year, which bodes well for the rest of the third quarter and through to the end of the year on the spot market.

August 25, 2017

Business

Engage.Bid tool can be effective for small carriers working large-shipper RFPs

Devliering the ability to “price with conviction” is the goal of the tool, released by TMW last year — it enables carriers to pull shipper RFPs’ lane-by-lane requests for rate bids into a proprietary module and apply analysis tools. Then output bids quickly back to RFP lane files, speeding up the process.

August 22, 2017

Channel 19

‘The Drive’ owner-operator-focused three-day conference; NPR radio and truckers

“The Drive” conference, the brainchild of Patriot Star small fleet owners and Trucking With Authority podcast hosts Kenny and Elizabeth Long, happens October 17-19 in North Kansas City.

August 22, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Step deck owner’s journey into mobile information tech, more

How to build an effective organizational system for your smartphone apps — and just what apps are showing plenty utility for step-deck hauler Joey Slaughter. In this Overdrive Radio edition, also, the operator’s thoughts on ELDs (he’s still on paper), broker relationships and more.

August 4, 2017

Business

After hot end of July on the spot market, lucky lanes in van, reefer

The central question remains whether we’ll see the typical August slump in freight and rates for vans and reefers, or if the economy has enough oomph to make August as relatively exceptional as July was.

August 3, 2017

Business

Uber Freight update: Regional emphasis shift, personalized app update

With an update beginning roll-out today, the Uber Freight app will learn progressively about user preferences, delivering a “For You” pack that will show owner-operators all of their personalized load recommendations. Also: The broker’s new regional emphases around freight hubs on both coasts and in the Midwest.

August 3, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Making the e-log switch: The evolution of small fleet Old Time Express

“I know a lot of people, and especially a lot of drivers, would like to cut my head off when I say this …” — that’s Old Time’s Mark White in preamble to some perhaps underappreciated e-log lessons he delivers toward the end of this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast. File under: things people might not want to hear.

July 7, 2017