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Business

Factoring: A view from the broker’s side

Check out how factoring impacts brokers and get the inside scoop from Pam Young about her take on broker-factoring company relationships on Overdrive.

September 7, 2018

Business

Quicker pay, lower fees trending for factoring, other fast cash

Factoring companies are taking smaller slices for their quick-pay services as competition has increased for truckers’ business. New offerings from mobile-pay platforms could push those trends further.

September 4, 2018

Business

Triumph acquires Interstate Capital

Triumph Business Capital will aquire all accounts receivable and transportation factoring assets and operations of Interstate Capital Corporation.

August 9, 2018

Overdrive Extra

An outsider’s perspective helps Isaac Ho navigate the trials of new authority

Find out how owner-operator Isaac Ho navigates the trucking industry. From insurance carriers to freight, learn how he's made his mark as an owner-operator.

August 8, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Toward reinvigorating camaraderie among haulers: Introducing road chaplain, owner-op and Overdrive Extra blogger Clifford Petersen

For regular Overdrive readers, Petersen may need no introduction, as he’s written several blog posts in recent times in which he draws on his experience over a few decades now in and out of trucking. His last time away, though, gave him a new purpose in his approach to the industry and, as he notes, a desire to leave it better than he found it initially.

August 6, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Why $6,000 from Chicago to Long Island is no longer enough

Huck Northcutt is a former Army cook turned flatbed driver. This Face of the Road recounts nightmare loads and what trips just aren't worth the money anymore.

July 30, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Expediter of the Year Tim Paxton on cargo van expediting and his business’ future

Recorded prior to Tim Paxton's award, Overdrive discusses challenges faced by him and others' small-vehicle trucking operations. Check it out on Overdrive.

July 27, 2018

Voices

POLL: Independents, do you use a factoring company or other quick-pay service?

Independents, take the poll and let us know. Yes, no, or no, but often/sometimes I will take brokers' quick-pay service when available.

July 24, 2018

Business

Making the jump: Cost, profit potential, biz basics of adding trucks on offer at Expedite Expo

Panelists talk about how experience as leased owner-ops “made it a lot easier” to make the transition to managing contracts, financing pieces of equipment.

July 20, 2018

Business

Spot market freight slows a bit, but ‘slump’ may be a stretch

Freight markets often begin to slide in mid-July, and last week’s national metrics fit the normal seasonal trend. That’s a signal that the red-hot demand seen in recent weeks has cooled, but it’s probably a stretch to call the slide a “slump.”

July 19, 2018

Business

New LoadPal invoicing app

The LoadPal app is made for the owner-operator as it offers a way to manage invoices to freight partners, streamline freight payment collections, and more.

July 9, 2018

Business

With June’s record spot-rates end, a closer look at the demand picture regionally for vans, reefers

Reefer and flatbed spot market averages continued higher than the contract rate averages while contract rates caught up with spot van rates. More here!

July 5, 2018