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Overdrive Extra
Flatbed operators prospering as economy rebounds
Through September, flatbedder clients of ATBS had net income of $51,602. Even though miles driven did not change much during the first three quarters, net income per mile rose dramatically each quarter, indicating rapidly rising rates: 67.3 cents per mile, 74.7 cpm and 81.7 cpm.
November 17, 2017
Business
Four fleets announce pay boosts for drivers
K&B Transportation, Bulldog Hiway Express, Hornady Transportation and W.N. Morehouse Truck Line each announced pay increases for drivers recently.
November 10, 2017
Business
Driver pay hikes on the horizon, analyst says
Of note from a conference call with pay analyst Gordon Klemp, driver wages are in effect just half of what they were in 1979, before deregulation.
November 8, 2017
Business
The double-billion burger they refuse to eat
“Pro-ELD propaganda does not address the true safety issue in the industry, and that is the sense that every driver is disposable. There’s always another. (Thin mint, sir? No thank you. Bring me a bucket.)”
October 6, 2017
Business
Eleventy-million and counting
Herein, a story about driv… I mean, apples. “And people wondered why other people, who weren’t buying near as many apples, were making pies and cider and delicious things from their apples, and didn’t have piles of stinking, rotting apples laying around their terminals … I mean, their kitchens.”…
September 20, 2017
Business
2017 owner-operator income: Flatbedding hot, reefer hauling chilly
Checking in on owner-operator income through the first half of the year: Flat to down for most segments, with flatbed gaining momentum and reefer haulers losing ground. Here are the numbers for 2017’s first half.
August 11, 2017
Channel 19
Interesting approach to accessorials for Uber Freight app users
It’s not exactly common when dealing with a broker that accessorials like truck-ordered-not-used, detention and the like are up-front accessible and available to anyone — or guaranteed should situations arise that cause them to come into play. How does $200 + $2/mile deadhead on a canceled load sound?
August 3, 2017
Business
Truckers land $855k payout from carrier for non-driving tasks
XPO Logistics is appealing a California’s agency’s award totaling $855,286 to four truckers for wage law violations, including under a 2016 state law mandating compensating “nonproductive time.”
May 4, 2017
Channel 19
Driver shortage alarm, redux part 2: Bills in Ohio would subsidize ‘cheap labor’
Ohio bills would funnel taxpayer money to driver-training efforts and “put the Ohio taxpayers on the hook for subsidizing cheap labor,” notes small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold. Also, video, audio: Crank it up with Scott Reed’s tuned 750-hp Cat in the Wheeling tunnel on I-70.
April 20, 2017
Electronic Logging Devices
POLL: ELDs and business income — what’s your view of the likely (or actual) impact of running electronic for hours?
Whether you’re already running an electronic log or not, how do you believe the move from paper to the engine-connected electronic environment would or did (if at all) impact your net income?
March 8, 2017
Overdrive Radio
America’s Road Team captains to carrier recruiters: ‘Respect your drivers’
“Be honest with the driver. You won’t lost a driver any quicker than to tell him something and then he finds out 30 days later that it’s just not true.” –Walmart driver Allen Boyd, to recruiting specialists at a recent panel discussion in Nashville.
February 27, 2017
Business
Freight and trucker pay should get a boost in 2017, analyst says
Strong indications of growth in the economy in 2017 should put upward pressure on freight volume and trucker pay, says Bob Costello, chief economist for the American Trucking Associations.
February 23, 2017
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