Tag: Owner-Operators: Page 41

Business

Payday

Carriers chase after a diminished pool of owner-operator candidates with higher pay, bonuses and more compensation options.

October 1, 2011

Overdrive Extra

Driver’s “beans-and-rice budget” needed in D.C.

Someone who’s experienced his own financial crisis during this period is hot-shot hauler Frank Hagwood.

September 30, 2011

Trucking History

Workhorse antiques to get ‘a little pampering’

OverdriveRetro’s mission expands into trucking history at the end of Overdrive’s 50th anniversary celebration.

September 30, 2011

Channel 19

New health audiobook, convoy for cancer cure, Project 351 gets low

Joe Martin, whom you’ll no doubt remember as the operator behind the Truckercise DVDs I wrote about earlier in the year (Martin’s pictured, right, with Alex Debogorski of Ice Road fame), announced recently that a new truckers’ health strategies audiobook that he contributed a chapter to is out and available. The book, Truckers’ Road to […]

September 30, 2011

Channel 19

Citizen to accident lawyers: Lighten up on anti-truck ads

“How many times a day do you hear on TV ads from lawyers making statements such as, ‘big trucks can cause serious injuries?’” So asked a reader, Bill Hughes, of the Tennessean newspaper, based in my home base of Nashville. I know the folks he’s talking about, of course, as I’m sure do you in […]

September 28, 2011

Channel 19

Fitting insurance to the operator — trends in usage-based pricing

If you missed a feature about insurance costs I wrote for the August edition of Overdrive, it contained a brief item relative to how insurance companies determine customer risk — and as a result of that risk determination, premium rate pricing. Canal Insurance Chief Underwriting Officer Paul Brocklebank made brief mention in the piece about […]

September 27, 2011

Business

Appeals court overturns LA port’s employee rule

Court reversed the ruling that allowed the port’s requirement that only employee drivers regularly could work the port.

September 27, 2011

Channel 19

Why is a JakeBrake important to you?

Answer the question by November 15 and you may just win a weekend in Las Vegas March 9-12, 2012, around the time of the NASCAR events. JakeBrake makers Jacobs Vehicle Systems, as I wrote in May this year, share a 50th anniversary with Overdrive this year. To celebrate and thank customers, via their Facebook page […]

September 26, 2011

Business

McLeod apps upgraded

Rand McNally’s TruckPC and TND 760 Fleet Edition products are now available on McLeod’s LoadMaster Enterprise and Powerbroker Version 10.3 apps, the map maker announced. Data such as vehicle position, messaging between cab and dispatch, and hours of service details for each driver are available on the products. Visit Rand McNally for details.

September 26, 2011

Business

Goodyear launches interactive blog

A new blog, the fleetHQ Ask The Tire Answer Man, features Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.’s Tim Miller in an answer and question format, the Akron, Ohio-based tire maker said. Miller is a veteran communications marketing director at Goodyear. The blog features topics pertinent to tires, a feature that allows readers to submit questions, an […]

September 26, 2011

Business

Route tracking service offered

PC Miler 25, a new online route tracking service, calculates times of day and week in arrivals times required for transit users, says its maker ALK Technologies. Traffic speed data is included free of charge in the service until the release of PC Miler 26 planned for next year. Through a partnership with traffic information […]

September 26, 2011

Channel 19

A couple for the kids: Truck, stop! Truck, go!

On children’s musician, author and childhood development specialist Jim Gill‘s most recent CD / DVD, “Music Play for Folks of All Stripes,” an interactive tune called “Truck Stop” schools listeners in a fun way on the basics of the truck driver’s work. As with most of Gill’s tunes, adults are coached toward leading kids through imaginative […]

September 23, 2011