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Business

Boss Truck Shop relocates Sioux Falls, South Dakota, facility

The Boss Truck Shop location in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has moved to a larger location at the Pilot Flying J near the junction of I-29 and I-90. The full-service truck repair, maintenance and tire shop now features more service bays and a more convenient location for drivers needing service.

July 8, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

More hopes and hazards: ELD data aggregation for advocacy, predictive maintenance, other uses

Some research organizations and even ELD providers are using aggregate ELD data to advocate for regulatory change or other industry purposes. Other providers are building potentially powerful predictive tools around maintenance, both of users’ trucks and the roads they operate on.

June 26, 2019

Voices

Roadcheck preps: ‘Business as usual’ for many owner-ops, though questions about roadside approach remain

Preps for Roadcheck by Overdrive readers include a variety of equipment inspections and third-party checks, plus just “business as usual” for the largest share — the nearly as large number of recent poll respondents who noted they scheduled vacation highlights how many view the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections, as little more than a nuisance.

May 31, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Let’s end the cat-and-mouse approach to roadside inspections

“In the wake of several state troopers and truck drivers being hit on the side of the road in recent months, I feel the time has come to change the regulations and require more than one inspection be conducted every 12 months in an approved location.” Forcing more routine around equipment inspections, owner-op Gary Buchs believes, will pay multiple dividends.

May 15, 2019

Channel 19

Faulty speed sensors, ground wires, empathy on customer service issues: Readers respond to one owner-op’s ELD issue

Several readers offered a variety of fixes in comments that had helped them with problems with their ELD acting with a mind of its own, similar to what Mark Kirbyson reported a couple weeks back here on Channel 19. Others, shared here, wrote in directly.

May 7, 2019

Business

TA Truck Service center added to Fairburn, Georgia, location

The facility will offer 24-hour maintenance and repair services with four service bays, two pit lanes, RoadSquad emergency breakdown assistance and TechOn-SITE mobile maintenance service.

May 1, 2019

Voices

POLL: Would a standardized miles-traveled tax for highway funds be a good fuels-tax replacement?

With some state jurisdictions currently testing the idea of a miles-traveled tax in place of a fuel tax for road repair and expansion funds, how do you feel about the potential fuel-tax replacement being eyed as electric and hybrid vehicles become more prominent?

April 29, 2019

Overdrive Radio

How-to: Custom walk-in storage at the front of a dry van; bulk tank niche explored

Daniel and Phyllis Snow detail their four-foot walk-in storage compartment they built into the front of their dry-van trailer, accessible from the tractor’s deck catwalk via a door assembly, to house tools and other supplies. Also in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast: liquid-bulk-tank insights from owner-ops Mike Landis, J.D. Howard.

April 26, 2019

Custom Rigs

Halvor Lines’ 50th-anniversary 1974 Peterbilt 352, rescued and restored

The story behind the 1974 Peterbilt 352 of Halvor Lines of Superior, Wis., a special restoration project cabover that hauled for Halvor in its first decade, finished just in time for Christmas last year and the final month of Halvor’s 50th-anniversary year,

April 15, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Lessons from the pothole that swallowed my truck

After a massive pothole snaps a steer-axle leaf spring, owner-operator Gary Buchs details “the kind of day that can remind an owner-operator that safe and skillful driving is just one of many tasks successful owners must develop. … ”

March 11, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Nearly six months without a paycheck: One lease operator’s story

Year 2018 was shaping up to be the best on record for a Midwest-based lease operator. He had just paid off his 2015 Pete. A breakdown, a cargo claim, an illness and little support from his carrier later, and “all I had left was my word.”

March 5, 2019

Business

The expansion challenge: Mastering preparation for the unpredictable

Small leased fleet owner-operator Dave Marti and Midnight Xpress owner-operator Andre Jackson both employed a common practice as they expanded: limited personal income, separated from business income, from which profits were reinvested. Or, as the case may be, used to cover the unforeseen.

March 5, 2019