Tag: DOT authority

Voices

LETTER: Go niche to avoid being the last independent standing

Recently retired owner-operator Mike McRae responds to Overdrive’s May issue with further evidence of where the profits are for independent single-truck businesses.

May 22, 2013

Channel 19

Introducing a ‘Truck Drivin’ Mama’ in Annabella Wood

Though she’s no longer a “gainfully employed trucker at this point” by her own estimation, Pennsylvania resident Annabella Wood continues to haul in a straight dump truck for a tree service company once a month or so to maintain her on-highway credentials. And she spent nearly 30 years — 29 and a half to be […]

July 26, 2011

Channel 19

New load board hopes to facilitate O/O-shipper connections

UPDATE 10/18/2016 about No Broker Freight.com: Valerie Hemmings is the spouse of an owner-operator running under his own authority — she recently wrote in with something of a plea for owner-operators to stand together for better rates, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the many permutations of middlemen in the ultimate carrier-shipper transaction. “Owner/Operators,” she […]

July 5, 2011

Channel 19

The great tomato heist — Cargo thieves still operating in plain sight

I missed this report from the New York Times a week and a half back, about a sophisticated cargo-theft ring operating a seemingly legitimate trucking company in Florida, with a twist. The freight targeted wasn’t consumer electronics or cigarettes or pharmaceuticals. “The high price of produce, especially for tomatoes after the deep winter freezes,” reporter […]

April 25, 2011