Tag: income: Page 3

Channel 19

Telling ’em what you really think …

Check out what owner-operator (and singer-songwriter) Bill Weaver has to say and have a laugh on us with Charlie's A-Z, LLC, photoshopped truck.

May 24, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Roadcheck prep: Invest in inspections to save money, hassle later

A good way to learn and gain confidence that you won’t get a roadside violation is to invest in equipment inspection, observe the inspection process at your shop/the scales, and ask questions.

May 22, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Is ‘moving the hours finish line’ the right tack for change?

Owner-op Gary Buchs on hours-change potential, including recent bills and petitions: “People regularly pontificate about how much better trucking was with the old 10/8 rules and more sleeper splits. I’d challenge these memories somewhat with a reminder that we still got tired, and that the working environment for trucking was very different.” …

April 13, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Brian Hardman, broker of Fulmer Logistics: ‘Load boards are a gamble, for me and for carriers’

And more from Hardman, whose two decades as a broker follow time driving OTR, among other things. His business, built on close relationships with a core team of owner-operators, is the focus of the second installment in “Long Haul Paul” Marhoefer’s “Faces of the Road” series.

March 28, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Podcast special edition: Lay of the land for owner-ops, by the numbers again with ATBS’ Todd Amen

This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features audio from ATBS President Todd Amen’s March 20 conference call for owner-operators outlining annual mileage, revenue and income averages from 2017, among other metrics, for segments among its clients — with a look ahead through this year.

March 20, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Analyst notes potential offset to ELDs’ productivity hit

Todd Amen of ATBS predicts that the strong freight market, and with it owner-operator net income, will continue to grow into 2019.

March 15, 2018

Business

ATBS to update owner-operators on ELD effects, 2017 income

ATBS, the country’s largest owner-operator business services firm, is holding a conference call next week to update owner-operators on 2017 income, outlook for 2018 income, the latest on rates and likely effects of the ELD mandate.

March 14, 2018

Channel 19

‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone

‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.

February 13, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Hot economy pushes flatbedders’ income way above their peers

ATBS averages for independents and dry van haulers in 2017 were close to $60,000, but reefer haulers averaged only $49,267.

February 8, 2018

Voices

‘Don’t work more for less’ is reader Tom Hall’s message on hours, ELDs

“A specialty equipment hauler once asked me just why some steel haulers will ‘haul 20,000 pounds overloaded for $1 a hundred when I make as much or more money hauling 40,000-pound legal loads at $2 a hundred?'” –Tom Hall on the scrum over income, pay, ELDs, hours and more. Hall views forcing pay for all time worked as a solution to many issues.

January 16, 2018

Channel 19

‘Here’s to causing a crisis’: Is there a shutdown going on?

Those were among the words of independent owner-operator Brita Nowak, who’s closed her one-truck business in part in protest of the 14-hour rule’s inflexibility, combined with the new record-keeping reality of the ELD mandate.

January 12, 2018

Business

Don’t go toward the light, Carol Ann

“If it has taken 30 years of hemorrhaging drivers to snap into the realization the eternal well is drying up for real — the very fleets who have participated in the practice of paying their executives well while drivers are once again forgotten are about to feel a whiplash of epic proportions they are fully unprepared for.”

January 5, 2018