Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 140

Overdrive Extra

Watermelon Slim – on the road again with a killer sound

It’s not every day that we trucking editors get a private lunchtime concert, but such was the case Friday here at the offices of Overdrive and Truckers News. Former trucker Bill Homans, who records and tours as Watermelon Slim, had an evening set scheduled in downtown Tuscaloosa. He got to town early enough to treat […]

March 7, 2010

Channel 19

Staring down coming CARB regs

A great story in the California-based Porterville Record highlighted the difficulties being faced by a particluar 5-truck fleet in Ducor, Calif., Andromeda Transport, owned by Dave Schwartz. Schwartz (pictured, right, with his mechanic), as he told reporter Sarah de Crescenzo, considers himself a “modern-day environmentalist” in his commitment to keeping his older trucks in tip-top operating […]

March 5, 2010

Business

ATA suit vs. Los Angeles port to begin April 20

The two sides will square off over driver classification aspects of the port’s drayage emissions-limiting program.

March 5, 2010

Business

TCA teams with independent truckers’ group

The new affinity program with NAIT is part of TCA’s ongoing effort to help its members attract and retain professional drivers.

March 4, 2010

Channel 19

CSA 2010 — questions of accountability, fairness

A video interview with driver Steve Bugg about this Georgia-based carrier’s experience in the CSA 2010 pilot test program. CSA 2010, set to go online nationwide, changes the model for safety rating and enforcement in many ways for both carriers and drivers. Bugg questions the very basis of the program, at the same time acknowledging the legitimacy of his carrier’s new strict approach to driver speeding warnings, tickets and more, given the new regime.

March 4, 2010

Business

Show off your rig

Overdrive selects the best of its readers’ truck photos that have been uploaded to our gallery for publication in each month’s issue. Click here to post your truck in the Custom Rigs/Overdrive online gallery. Darren “Thunder” Gouveia of Lucasville, Ohio, owns this 2006 Kenworth W900L. It will appear in the March Overdrive.

March 4, 2010

Business

TCA announces contest winners

Boyd Bros. Transportation and Dart Transit won top awards the best fleets for company drivers and owner-operators, respectively, to work for in the Truckload Carriers Association Best Fleets to Drive For contest.

March 3, 2010

Reader Rigs

Todd Easterling of Caldwell, Texas, hauls steel co

Todd Easterling of Caldwell, Texas, hauls steel coils and lumber from the East Coast to the Midwest for WTI Transport in this 2002 International 9900I. The truck, named Big Bertha, is powered by a 475-hp Caterpillar and a 10-speed Eaton Fuller.

March 2, 2010

Business

Obama budget eyes employee-contractor issue

Governmental bodies often eye the construction industry for misclassification, but the trucking business also draws examination.

March 1, 2010

Channel 19

The costs of waiting out the storm

Beth Brelje, writing in the Pocono Record of Pennsylvania, visited with several truckers waiting out a snowstorm in a Wal-Mart parking lot off I-84. Such waits have been legion for the nation’s haulers this season, with record amounts of snowfall hitting places where a snow deluge is not such a common thing. It may be […]

March 1, 2010

Business

Wake up call

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected soon to raise the bar on screening and treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.

March 1, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT. Your settlemen

PIB TIP: PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENT. Your settlement statements and receipts should be sorted into like categories to add up for a total at month’s end. Then your operating information should be incorporated into a consistent format called a profit and loss statement, which should include how many miles you drove, your revenue, your costs […]

February 19, 2010