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Overdrive Extra

Natural gas + trucking = 6 stock tips

It’s interesting to see investors and mainstream business media take note of how the boom in natural gas production is affecting the truck market.

May 4, 2012

Channel 19

Former hauler loses 100 pounds with dance

Need proof “small steps can lead to big results” in attempts to lose weight? Look no farther than “Big John” Drury, who at his heaviest weighed 400 pounds, reported Local 12 News in Cincinnati, Ohio. A resident of nearby Hamilton, the 6’7″ tall former highway hauler lost nearly 100 pounds combining portion control and calorie […]

May 2, 2012

Channel 19

Interviewing NFI ‘roadside midwife’ Mike Hawthorne

How many roadside midwives do you know? Such is the unlikely description that can now be appropriately applied to NFI driver Mike Hawthorne, of Somerdale, N.J. Since I wrote about him several weeks back, the driver, who delivered the third newborn baby of his hauling career in late March, has been back at work delivering […]

May 1, 2012

Channel 19

Humor in all places: Weigh stations, auto hauler suppliers…

That’ll be $5, driver When we quizzed operators via Overdrive‘s Facebook page about their funniest weigh-station memories, moving van hauler Robert McConnell didn’t hesitate: “Many years ago at a Colorado scale, when you used to have to go in and get your little yellow paper, a fellow mover was there and, when asked what he was […]

April 30, 2012

Voices

Fuel management: Optimization, taxes and surcharges

Overdrive columnist and trucking radio host Kevin Rutherford presents “Fuel management: Optimization, taxes and surcharges.”

April 27, 2012

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

Overdrive Extra

Landstar’s 2012 start good sign for owner-operators

The nation’s largest owner-operator fleet, Landstar, reports that it had its best first quarter ever.

April 27, 2012

Overdrive Extra

‘Shipping Wars’ hotshot reality TV show extended

The Shipping Wars reality TV show, launched earlier this year and featuring the work of several hotshot owner-operators competing for earnings by bidding on and moving freight from the uShip.com online marketplace, hasn’t exactly lit up the trucking world with interest in the manner of, say, the Ice Road Truckers show at its height, but the […]

April 25, 2012

Channel 19

Operators pitch in to foil suicide attempt, take two

It was truckers to the rescue again Monday in Minneapolis as a suicidal man stood poised to jump, hanging onto nothing more than the outside of a chain-link fence at the edge of a 25-foot-high bridge over I-94. A trooper on the scene, Carl Hoffman, took a page from the Tuscaloosa, Ala., police’s handbook and […]

April 18, 2012

Channel 19

New hotel-search iPhone app from Booking.com

Need a hotel last-minute on the road? The new free Booking.com Tonight app for the iPhone taps into the Booking.com website‘s global listings for more than 200,000 hotels and other accommodations and offers some built-in price discounts for many, the company says. The app’s geared toward last-minute bookings and thus may be particularly useful for drivers. Simple, […]

April 15, 2012

Overdrive Extra

Ice Road Truckers season 5 DVDs available

A set of DVDs with the entire season 5 of History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers” franchise is now available via History’s website. The season pit the Canucks against the Americans, with a crew of haulers in Alaska as well as another group in Canada battling it out for the top spot, as you may recall. […]

April 12, 2012

Business

Avoid these common tax prep mistakes

If you want to dodge common mistakes owner-operators make on tax returns, you need to check certain numbers, advises columnist Kevin Rutherford.

April 12, 2012