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Channel 19

Cash flow, freight strategies: Report from the GATS panel of independents, small fleets

PIB small fleet panel at GATS: Substantial profit can be hard-won in the trucking business, though with diligence around business analysis and cash flow, cost control, freight market wisdom and customer relationships, an independent owner-operator or small fleet owner can set themselves up for long-term success.

August 27, 2019

Channel 19

AOBRD to ELD deadline near yearend: Switch not always easy as it might seem

Contrary to what some legacy e-log providers told us ahead of the mandate about updating then-current equipment to comply with the ELD spec, this small fleet safety director found that simple over-the-air software updates haven’t been able to do the trick, for several reasons.

June 13, 2019

Business

No. 1 expansion challenge: 6 in 10 readers say it’s finding dependable drivers

For all the differences between a mega-fleet and an expanding one-truck owner-operator, both share a common problem: difficulties finding and keeping dependable drivers.

March 7, 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

Business

The expansion challenge: Getting started with solid freight relationships

While most owner-operators have considered adding a truck to their business, many never try it, and few have sustained success for years. The challenges are many, but the rewards can be substantial for the right operators with a close eye on new opportunities.

March 4, 2019

Business

Small fleet growth isn’t limited to adding trucks

Small trucking fleets do not have to have more trucks in order to grow as a fleet. They can grow in other ways. See how right here on Overdrive Online.

February 27, 2019

Channel 19

Beating back too many brokers’ wrongheaded mentality: ‘Keep the shipper happy no matter what it costs the carrier’

Addressing a freight broker's wrongheaded mentality with Overdrive Online. Get more details and other trucking industry news right here on Overdrive Online.

February 20, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Further dissection of post-ELD mandate crash rates, and the blues of Watermelon Slim

The Overdrive Radio podcast highlighted a recent study around potential safety-sensitive impacts of the ELD mandate. Get more details on it here on Overdrive.

February 8, 2019

Voices

POLL: Have you considered — or followed through on — moving beyond a single truck?

For many owner-operators, the possibility of expansion beyond one truck is a common goal — have you ever considered building beyond the one truck, or actually followed through on such a plan?

February 4, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Local/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more

This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his home base, and a newly built six-bay shop. Balancing the volume/cost tradeoffs is one of the many calculations the owner’s learned to make over his years in business.

February 1, 2019

Custom Rigs

‘In loving memory of Gordon Halcomb’: One sharp 2007 Peterbilt 379 of three rigs so dedicated

Three that I’ve seen, anyway — here find detail, and video, on one of them, the 2007 Peterbilt 379 driver Randy Earnest pulls in with small fleet Halcomb Farms Trucking, leased with Tralo. As with the two others Halcomb showed, the truck Earnest drives is dedicated to owner Kenny Halcomb’s father, Gordon, who passed in 2017.

January 30, 2019

Business

NavigatorTMS and FreightTracer aim to ease burdens of operations/customer management for independents

Mark Eichinger pitches his company’s FreightTracer track-and-trace product and NavigatorTMS as small-fleet/independent-owner-op solutions to help compete on a level playing field “with the larger organizations” when it comes to technology and what they can offer prospective customers.

January 25, 2019