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An ELD rate boost? Maybe, but look out for the safety banana peel
“The real tragedy is the runaway economic and safety burden will fall on an unsuspecting public at a time when economic stress has been at an all-time high since the Great Depression.” –reader and truck owner Gary Carlisle
August 17, 2017
Business
Trucking employment slipped again in June
June’s trucking jobs dip comes amid an otherwise solid month for employment for the U.S. economy, which added 222,000 jobs in the month. The country’s unemployment rate was 4.4 percent.
July 7, 2017
Business
FTR’s Perry joins Truckstop.com as chief economist
Perry specializes in analyzing risks in the transportation market and focuses on the underlying fundamentals of transport demand, operations and competition.
June 23, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Used truck glut can spell bargains for buyers
By January 2017, retail prices for 3- to 5-year-old sleeper tractors averaged $65,910. That was $7,412 lower than the same group a year ago, and with 2.2 percent fewer miles.
April 7, 2017
Channel 19
Owner-operators trend optimistic about business in 2017
We can take the optimism expressed in these results with a crunchy-good grain of road salt or sand, but for the first time in the few years, a majority of owner-operators think this coming year will be better than the last. Recent indicators agree…
January 7, 2017
Voices
Readers see racial element in U.S. election
White-grievance or -identity politics, a majority of November/December OverdriveOnline.com poll respondents noted, did play a role among Trump’s voters, while a more vocal minority believed it didn’t.
January 5, 2017
Overdrive Extra
2017: Regulations, the economy and your career path
Is your career path leading you to become a “critical-thinking, problem-solving” business owner?
January 1, 2017
Overdrive Extra
Eight owner-operator takeaways from a trucking economist’s talk
Here are some points made by trucking economist John Larkin, plus Overdrive’s take on how they could have some bearing on owner-operators, especially independents.
March 10, 2016
Business
State of freight: Market pressure on driver pay stalled?
Though recent years have shown better trends, with pay rising fairly sharply for company drivers and independents alike, there’s evidence from carrier surveys that such increases have now lulled. Lower volume expectations indicate increases in driver pay could be limited in 2016.
February 11, 2016
Business
Framing the trucking labor situation: Shortage at what price?
“Labor shortage” can mean different things to different people, whether a supply/demand imbalance at “current market prices” or “at any price” — the latter often well implied in driver shortage stories that suggest a disruption to the supply chain that consumers will see and feel.
February 3, 2016
Business
The driver shortage alarm
The disconnect between the money and the mantra: As trucking has trumpeted a driver shortage over most of the last 10 years driver pay hasn’t risen in a way that would reflect such a strong labor demand.
February 1, 2016
Channel 19
Owner-operator 2016 business outlook trends pessimistic
Results of recent polling show a trend toward a pessimistic outlook following a 2015 that didn’t exactly live up to expectations as they stood this time last year.
January 5, 2016
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