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Channel 19

‘The Drive’ owner-operator-focused three-day conference; NPR radio and truckers

“The Drive” conference, the brainchild of Patriot Star small fleet owners and Trucking With Authority podcast hosts Kenny and Elizabeth Long, happens October 17-19 in North Kansas City.

August 22, 2017

Voices

POLL: Is/was your father involved in trucking?

To what extent is trucking passed down father-to-son over the generations? In the poll, in advance of Father’s Day this weekend, we want to know whether your father is/was a trucker in any capacity, whether a driver/O-O, fleet owner or something else?

June 15, 2017

Voices

Four generations of fathers, sons power Penn.-based R.W. Smith Trucking

With Father’s Day coming up, a question: Is/was your father involved in trucking, too? And: A guest profile of and “salute to a company “that’s been led for 85 years by successive generations of fathers and sons,” Penn.-based R.W. Smith Trucking.

June 13, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Cold water on the ELD mandate’s potential rates impacts

While recent polling shows most owner-operators view the ELD mandate’s chances of positively impacting rates either short- or long-term as good, don’t count OOIDA board member and B.L. Reever Transport small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold among the true believers.

May 12, 2017

Electronic Logging Devices

Telogis/Mack offer telematics free trial

Mack models equipped with MP engines and GuardDog Connect hardware built after 2014 are eligible for the free trial, and up to 10 trucks per customer can be included. All features of Telogis Fleet for Mack, including e-logs, are available during the free trial period,

March 3, 2017

Business

New Comdata, KeepTruckin partnership

KeepTruckin’s smartphone/tablet-based ELD is now available via Comdata’s small-trucking-business-focused MyFleet Program.

February 2, 2017

Business

MyGeotab app now in iOS

If you run a small fleet and utilize Geotab for logs or other services, the MyGeotab app, newly available for iPhones and iPads, makes it easier to manage productivity, safety and vehicle status from a mobile phone.

January 18, 2017

Business

Web-based small fleet, broker TMS software

With a starting price of $69 a month and the first 30 days free, the Tailwind company’s all-in-one Trucking & Freight Broker Software is built, the company says, to help small- to medium-size trucking companies and brokerages compete.

November 21, 2016

Channel 19

Are small carriers singled out for inspection? Short answer: Yes

FMCSA routinely bumps the Inspection Selection System scores of “data-insufficient” carriers — i.e. those who haven’t been inspected enough to product CSA SMS scores — to 99, making bypass systems virtually useless and ensuring more inspections.

November 7, 2016

Business

Where the drivers are — Job application density by state, 2008-2015

These interactive driver population heat maps show the total CDL-holding driver applicants per capita, by resident state of the applicant, incoming to BestDriverJobs.com and network sites. Change in the maps between 2008-15 illustrate economic ups and downs affecting trucking over those years.

October 5, 2016

Business

Keeping the small fleet ‘family’ happy: Pay, equipment, home time

Small-fleet owners use good pay, equipment and home time to attract loyal drivers. They say those are the bedrocks of retention, the top employment issue named in a recent Overdrive survey.

October 3, 2016

Electronic Logging Devices

ELDs: Owner-operators have some decisions to make

Considerations in just when and how to move to ELDs were in the foreground Thursday at GATS. More may find themselves obligated to make a change, even if OOIDA’s ELD lawsuit is successful, in the end, as more shippers/brokers require ELD use.

August 26, 2016