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Voices
Making the most of idle time with uncompensated detention solutions
Readers voices views on the issue of uncompensated detention time at shipper and receiver facilities, an agreed-upon top problem for driver and owner-operators today.
November 7, 2012
Making the most of a long wait
Voices
Readers react on broker regulation, rates, GPS, truck loans
Rounding up reactions to recent coverage of a variety of issues at OverdriveOnline.com, in the magazine and on the Overdrive Facebook page.
October 24, 2012
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Business
Beefing Up the Bond
Small brokers oppose proposed regs to increase the minimum bond to $100,000 and add other owner-operator protection.
June 1, 2012
Overdrive June 2012 cover
Voices
Roadside Attractions
Owner-operators have some strong words, an air force vet finds a third life in trucking, a demand for bee hive transport; plus Truck Gauge, Channel 19 and Truck Gallery are featured.
May 1, 2012
Scan the QR to pull up a video excerpt of owner-operator Greg Petit’s testimony to FMCSA on EOBRs and harassment. For more from the listening session, visit youtube.com/overdrivemag.
Channel 19
OOIDA on bond increase: Large brokers not the problem
I spoke to Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association Executive Vice President Todd Spencer about the broker minimum bond increase issue earlier this week. The conversation followed posts to the blog looking at opposition to the measure (to raise it from $10,000 to $100,000) from small brokerages and their advocates, who have been reaching out to owner-operators […]
April 27, 2012
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Overdrive Extra
Four-wheeler: ‘I am so sick of 18-wheelers!’
Over the transom today in Overdrive‘s Nashville bureau here, as my office is often known among the editors in Alabama, came this letter. So much for sharing the road! Dear editor,I am so sick of 18-wheelers. They are always in the way. Who needs them? I sure don’t. They never seem to do the speed […]
April 1, 2012
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Channel 19
CSA-Proofing, part two: Closed greasing system
Owner-operator Gordon Alkire’s engineered a solution to the problem of needing to get under the truck to grease front and rear suspension components with a system he says he’s spent a mere $75 on.
March 9, 2012
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Channel 19
‘Leave Tony alone’ — An owner-operator on the truck stop tiger
Animal rights advocates are a vocal bunch, as I’ve found out over the course of the last several years. Write word one about Tony, the tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop in Gross Tete, La., and you can pretty much place your bets on a blizzard of commentary coming your way. Until recently, much of […]
January 27, 2012
Gordon Alkire
Business
Memory Lanes
Truckers’ recollections of the first trucks, first hauls and often the first highways they pulled cargo over become treasures to them as decades pass.
September 1, 2011
Produce hauler patriarch Ed Kimball holds his son Kevin in the late 1950s, atop his LJ Mack in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Trucking History
A knight of the road recalls the royal carpet
Owner-operator Gordon Alkire recalls an era when the knights of the road, he says, were treated like royalty.
June 17, 2011
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