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Business

Prepping your business for the coming downturn

Richard DeForest of ATBS listed ways owner-operators can refine their businesses and prepare for those inevitable tough times. More information here.

September 13, 2018

Business

This week’s Great American Trucking Show to feature show trucks, live music, business seminars, more

This year's Great American Truck Show will feature show trucks, live music, business seminars, and much more. More information here on Overdrive.

August 17, 2018

Business

Get owner-op business tips during Partners in Business seminars at GATS

Four PIB seminars will be held at GATS. Todd Amen and Richard DeForest with business services provider ATBS will present the first two seminars on Friday, Aug. 24, and Kevin Rutherford with Let’s Truck will host the two seminars on Saturday, Aug. 25.

July 17, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Partners in Business podcast: Managing your money and time

This installment in the podcast series of Overdrive’s Partners in Business, excerpting portions of the manual coproduced with ATBS, covers how to develop and use profit and loss statements, and how to understand your revenue, earnings and costs.

February 23, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Partners in Business podcast: Getting started as an owner-operator

This Overdrive Radio podcast covers the first four chapters from the Partners in Business manual — from making the transition to self-employment, choosing a financial services partner, creating a strong business plan and establishing your bookkeeping.

January 31, 2018

Business

Get owner-operator tips during Partners in Business seminars at GATS

Seminar attendance will also include a free PIB manual, a $20 value that includes a variety of practical financial tips, tax and equipment management strategies and more.

August 9, 2017

Life

Free GATS registrations benefit trucking charities through end of day today

For each registration by July 4, GATS is donating $1 to the registrant’s choice of Truckers Against Trafficking, TruckersFinalMile.Org or the St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund.

July 4, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Partners in Business podcast: Managing your fuel costs

This installment of Overdrive’s Partners in Business covers how to control fuel costs. That includes minimizing fuel consumption, getting a fair fuel surcharge and choosing where to buy fue

May 24, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Kevin Rutherford’s case to brokers for stronger partnerships with owner-operators

Hear how Kevin Rutherford broke the ice with a roomful of brokers: “Many of my listeners think the majority of this room are lying, cheating scumbag parasites sitting in a room with a phone and an internet connection sucking all the profit out of the load.”

November 3, 2016

Partners in Business

Partners in Business tip: Account for monthly variable costs

If you drive 9,600 miles one month and 10,000 miles the next, you’ll have two sets of costs for each month.

September 28, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Driver shortage alarm, redux: ‘Turnover is the real problem’

And for too long, the situation for many drivers has been one in which “the rewards don’t match the requirements of the job,” said ATBS’ Richard DeForest at GATS. That won’t change until freight rates are able to support a better annual income for the most important part of the supply chain — the driver.

September 2, 2016

Overdrive Radio

Prediction: Rates will jump with ELD transition

“We’re going to have a truck shortage when this ELD rule gets put into effect,” said ATBS’ Todd Amen said during his Partners in Business GATS presentation. “Essentially it’s like taking 200,000 to 300,000 trucks off the road.” Here’s how much he sees rates jumping.

August 29, 2016