Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 38

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Truck-Lite goes gonzo with customer service in new YouTube series

“Customers often ask the same questions about the features and design of our products,” says Bob Ives, Truck-Lite‘s marketing vice president. Coming upon a creative way to address those customer questions and concerns, the company has undertaken a series of YouTube vids that Ives says has proven an “excellent tool” to address “feedback and concerns with […]

November 1, 2011

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Santa’s elves cranking out electronics

Manufacturing continued growing in October, but at a slower pace than September, according to the Institute for Supply Management.

November 1, 2011

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Choosing a business form

There are three main things to consider when you choose a legal form for a business: asset protection, taxation and simplicity.

November 1, 2011

Business

Independent thinking

Carriers test the waters with new owner-operator models to dodge worker classification problems.

November 1, 2011

Business

Pulling Tanks

Operators find good pay, a less taxing workload and a professional attitude in this steady niche.

November 1, 2011

Channel 19

Jost to be featured today and tomorrow on Motorhead Garage TV

Tune into Fox Sports Network this morning at 11:30 in all time zones for an edition of the Motorhead Garage television series that features Jost International. The segment was filmed October 18 at the Jost U.S. manufacturing site in Greeneville, Tenn., and will air again tomorrow, Monday, Oct. 31, at 4:30 pm. During the segment, […]

October 30, 2011

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How to get — and keep — the contract

Success in hauling with your own authority often requires negotiating contracts directly with shippers and keeping those contracts when bigger competitors come prowling. The father-son operation of John and Erick (pictured) Engbarth learned this by experience. Erick makes regular hauls from North Carolina to California loaded with plastics and usually carrying motorcycles back. When Engbarth […]

October 29, 2011

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Friday Channel 19 news round-up: Cross-border trucking; ‘driver shortage’; and the 1 on the 53 and the 99

Separate but not equal That separation could be diminishing when it comes to U.S. and Mexican tucking, now that a new pilot program for cross-border long haul is under way.  In the wake of the Oct. 21 border ceremony at Laredo, when the first Mexican truck crossed as part of the new cross-border pilot program, […]

October 28, 2011

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New freight-finding Android app from ATS

A new freight matching app for owner-operators and other carriers comes by way of Anderson Trucking Service’s brokerage wing, ATS Logistics. It didn’t arrive in time for my cover story in the November edition of Truckers News, a survey of on-highway apps making life easier for drivers on the road today, so I’m sharing here. […]

October 27, 2011

Business

ATA Good Stuff Trucking Image Award winners announced

Two carriers and two state trucking associations received the American Trucking Associations’ Good Stuff Trucking Image awards. Milan, Ind.-based Baylor Trucking Inc., Greensboro-N.C.-based Mack Trucks, the Minnesota Trucking Association and the Tennessee Trucking Association were honored for enhancing the industry’s image, said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. For details, visit Trucks Bring It.

October 26, 2011

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Scenes of Chrome & Class

That’s David Holbrook’s 1986 Peterbilt 359, winner of both Working Bobtail and People’s Choice awards in the second annual Chrome & Class Truck Show, held at the Rush Truck Center location in Smyrna, Tenn., on I-24 just southeast of Nashville. It was a much expanded show this year, with near double the number of entered […]

October 26, 2011

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Landstar report a good sign for owner-operators

If earnings at Landstar System, the nation’s largest owner-operator carrier, are any indication, owner-operators are having a better year than they did in 2010.

October 25, 2011