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Overdrive Radio

Freight niche transition — HHG to expedited with owner-operator Greg Huggins

Podcast: A talk with Greg Huggins, currently leased with a 2015 Cascadia straight truck to Landstar Express America, about his transition three years ago from two decades and more of household-moves hauling. And: A prediction on scale house inspectors after the ELD mandate.

July 21, 2017

Custom Rigs

Steve McNeal’s sleeper-/six-skid-box-outfitted custom ’17 Ford Transit expediter

Take a video run through a unit that, in a booth at the Expedite Expo (Load One’s) that also included one of Brad Keselowski’s actual NASCAR racecars, was getting the lion’s share of the attention.

July 20, 2017

Business

First-ever Expediter of the Year award delivered at industry expo

Donating the $500 prize that came with the award to the St. Christopher Fund, Robert Burton, who hauls leased to V3 Transportation, embodied one of the giving quality his wife lauded him for in her nomination of him for the award.

July 17, 2017

Business

Expedite Expo kicks off July 14 in Lexington, Ky.

Drivers, owner-operators and fleet owners all are part of the target audience for the long-running Expedite Expo show, whose 2017 edition is taking place July 14-15 in Lexington, Ky., at the Lexington Center.

June 30, 2017

Custom Rigs

Jon and Miriam Brown and their Volvo home away from home

Landstar-leased Jon and Miriam Brown’s team operation and 2012 Volvo VNL300 converted by Showhauler Motorhome Conversions the first featured business in Volvo’s new “Welcome to my cab” vid series.

August 9, 2014

Business

AA&E: Where the money is, if anywhere, in military freight

FedEx custom-critical expediters Andy and Myrian Johnson are sunny about high-security military freight, where the money is -- if it’s anywhere -- in the defense-department niche.

February 7, 2014

Channel 19

A fine read in owner-operator’s ‘Hotshot Chronicles’ book on expediting

Gary Shade’s book of the expediting life and business could be an important resource for those starting out in the segment.

September 12, 2013

Business

Seasoned expediters: Tom and Tina Evans

Straight expediting truck have been Tom and Tina Evans’ bread and butter since starting their business in the year 2000 — today, they enjoy plenty of freedom to live life like they want to.

August 15, 2013

Business

Second-career long-haul: Martin and Carolina Hill

Martin Hill enjoyed enhanced personal freedoms and income when he brought his wife, Carolina, into his newly-minted owner-operator business at CRST Van Expedited.

August 14, 2013

Business

Driving with a partner offers income, lifestyle opportunities

It’s no secret why team driving is attractive to the young and ambitious in trucking: income opportunity is high in the right operation. On the flip side, it’s also a refuge for second-career empty-nesters looking to enjoy life.

August 8, 2013

Channel 19

Rolling out with the Great Lakes Convoy for women’s cancers

Watch the convoy — founded by two proud women, one an owner-operator, in the expediting segment — roll out in this vid. Bonus: Nick and Jenny Marcu’s tribute to cancer fighters.

July 27, 2013

Life

A working truck at the show booth

Oscar Robledo’s 2005 Western Star at the Load One show booth at the Expedite Expo — Robledo was surprised when he was asked to show the truck there, but ultimately he shouldn’t have been, says company president.

July 26, 2013