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Voices

POLL: Small fleet owners, where do you most-often find your driver candidates?

If you’ve been in the position of hiring a driver, what most commonly generates the successful job candidate — direct referrals of various natures, ads in local or far-flung places or something else entirely? Weigh in here.

August 22, 2016

Channel 19

Stoking the log fires, redux: Crash incidence, hours violations and fleet size

Is the owner-operator/small fleet being “nitpicked” or “nickel-and-dimed” into oblivion? Crash data and inspection and hours violation rates, analyzed by fleet size, fuel further discussion following this month’s “Stoking the log fires” feature.

July 28, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Most Beautiful champ Brita Nowak on independent business, expansion limits, and more

Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio talks through Most Beautiful winner and one-truck independent owner-operator Brita Nowak about, among other things, her run from one to five trucks — and back.

July 27, 2016

Custom Rigs

‘Here to stay’: Turner Transport’s 2015 Pete 389

A video run through owner-operator Eric Turner’s Turner Transport seven-truck fleet and its new flagship, the Best of Show (Working Combo)-winning 2015 Peterbilt 389 glider and 2016 Wally Mo car hauler.

July 19, 2016

Custom Rigs

Owner of classic W9 specializes in survival: ‘I refuse to lose’

John Jaikes is clearly a hard-working independent and a proud show truck exhibitor. What’s not so obvious is that he’s a survivor — of repeat bouts with cancer and a wreck with a possibly suicidal four-wheeler.

June 13, 2016

Channel 19

‘A broken system’: Small fleet owner on CSA, SFD reliance on roadside inspections, violations

Hazmat, securement violations for a two-gallon tote holding spare oil? Check. Bob Delullo’s thoughts on CSA and the proposed SFD rule are a variation on the “garbage in, garbage out” phrase to describe systems doomed by the component parts on which they are based.

April 12, 2016

Channel 19

Driver before the truck in small fleet expansion

If the truck procurement/driver employment situation in small fleet expansion presents a chicken-egg type conundrum, operators would do well to focus on the driver first.

March 31, 2016

Overdrive Radio

One independent’s comeback from the brink: A run with Ted Bowers

A rare opportunity to make part of a run with Kingston, Tenn.-based Ted Bowers, owner of the small trucking company that bears his name, yields a story of adversity overcome that holds lessons in the importance of close freight, accounting, driver and other partnerships.

March 15, 2016

Voices

POLL: Small fleets, which comes first — the driver or the truck?

For those among readers who’ve owned more than one truck, this poll asks a question relative to views on expansion strategy: Best to buy a truck to fit a dependable driver or the converse, focus on hiring only as needed to utilize equipment?

March 10, 2016

Business

BigRoad e-log updates following the ELD mandate’s release

The BigRoad provider of the smartphone-based computer-assisted logbook and DashLink engine-connected ELD, noted the company was “fully on track” with updates following the ELD mandate’s release.

February 19, 2016

Business

Future of brokerage: Cargo Chief to bet on pay for time

Cargo Chief head Abtin Hamidi wants to “change the way freight [movement] is bought and sold,” he says — the company plans to launch a lump-sum pay-for-time model in its contracts with independents and small fleets.

February 9, 2016

Channel 19

ELD mandate pre-2000 exemption: How will carriers leasing owner-operators treat it?

Answers here from respondents to a recent carrier survey conducted by CCJ. And: Reader Gary Carlisle’s thoughts on the limited potential for the ELD mandate to impact rates for the positive.

January 26, 2016