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Business
Contract opportunities, strategy shifts for the smallest carriers
In addition to direct freight contracts, COVID-19 has opened myriad other new opportunities for nimble small fleet owner-ops, some with brokers. Read more here.
November 20, 2020
Business
No Turning Back: New era for direct freight
Contract innovations are emerging due to COVID-19 economic turmoil and are translating to long-term opportunities for the smallest truckers. More on Overdrive.
November 18, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Whereâs the âsweet spotâ size for small fleets? And other insights into owner-op growth
Owner-operators share their insights on balancing sizing of their small fleets, hiring and retaining the best drivers, and more. Details on Overdrive.
November 6, 2020
Custom Rigs
This brain trick worsens the danger of cumulative sleep loss | Cabover âJoy Rideâ to the port
Bill Hambrick discusses logistics culture valuing timeliness above nearly everything else and Ben Cadle speaks on supply chain stress and irregularities.
November 5, 2020
Pride & Polish
Pride & Polish Weekly Video Encore, No. 29: Ben Cadleâs 2013 Freightliner Coronado
Up this week is Augusta, Georgia-based Ben Cadleâs 2013 Freightliner Coronado, âDream Catcher,â which won first place in the Bobtail â 2011 and Newer category at GATS Pride & Polish in 2015.
February 10, 2020
Custom Rigs
Checking in with Ben Cadle and a recent fleet addition: The âJoy Ride 3â 1982 Freightliner cabover
Video: Take a run through small fleet owner Ben Cadleâs new flagship 1982 cabover, as seen at GATS this year as well as at the Southern Classic Truck Show in N.C. He hauls about a load a week in it today, he says, after spending a year and a half or more turning it into this custom gem.
October 26, 2017
Business
Recruiting challenges as the small fleet grows: Three cases
What August, Ga.-based Cadle Trucking, Missouriâs Fleenor Bros. hazmat hauler and the Percy Transportation company out of Mt. Prospect, Ill., have done in their respective operations to attract drivers to their operations amid growing pains.
October 4, 2016
Business
Keeping the small fleet âfamilyâ 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
Business
Detention détente: Cadle Trucking
âWhen capacity gets even tighter â when electronic logs become a mandate ⊠it will be a good opportunity for us to recover costs that weâll have to pass along to drivers to pay them to sit.â â9-truck fleet owner-operator Ben Cadle
September 15, 2015
Business
Detention dĂ©tente: Tables turn in carriersâ, driversâ favor in pay/rate negotiations
The tables finally are turning, as examined in this multipart feature. Fleets and owner-operators, for years in a losing battle with brokers and shippers over compensation for wasted dock time, are exercising improved leverage in negotiations.
September 14, 2015
Custom Rigs
Cadle Transport 2013 Coronado glider, small fleet rise from recessionâs ashes
Small fleet owner Ben Cadle launched his business with his own authority in 2007, right as the financial world was starting to collapse under its own weight. His 2013 show-worthy glider illustrates his subsequent, ongoing success.
July 27, 2015
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