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Business
Owner-operator challenges, No. 5: High equipment costs
Rates aren’t exactly keeping up with the level of cost increase for equipment, a trend owner-operators have felt hard in the last several years.
August 10, 2012
Peterbilt dealer sales department
Voices
Owner-Operator of the Month: Brad Chapdelaine
Brad Chapdelaine devotes as much attention to local outreach as he does his bottom line.
August 8, 2012
Chapdelaine has put almost 400,000 miles on his truck, which will soon reach 2 million miles.
Business
Lizards and idiot four-wheelers
Every person I discuss our travels with asks two questions, ‘Where do you go to the bathroom?’ and ‘Have you seen a Lot Lizard?’
August 2, 2012
Business
Uncle Pinky won’t admit his guilt
Uncle George is smitten. It’s really sweet to watch the burly trucker melt when she raises her hands for him to pick her up.
July 30, 2012
Business
Attention to detail
Texas trucker’s focus on maintenance keeps him on the path of success.
July 19, 2012
Since purchasing this Western Star a year ago, Leatherwood has driven more than 104,000 miles, and he averages six miles per gallon.
Overdrive Extra
Housing starts hit high point in June
Housing starts rose almost 7 percent last month, said the U.S. Commerce Department.
July 18, 2012
Overdrive Extra
CSA’s sloppy accident accounting
FMCSA needs to go further with crash accountability, providing an appeal process and ensuring that it doesn’t penalize innocent truckers.
July 12, 2012
Business
Fuel’s Gold
Owner-operators find big money and good schedules working the oil and gas services boom.
July 2, 2012
Kristin Stump says her typical day, if starting empty, begins with a run to a rail yard where sand is loaded into her pneumatic dry-bulk trailer. Driving small roads, typically, in West Virginia, she’s escorted to the well site, where sand is loaded into a storage bin. In a five-day work week, “I doubt if we do much more than 800 miles,” she says.
Overdrive Extra
Financial freedom by age 65
Make sure you continuously update your balance sheet – at least twice per year – to ensure you are meeting your financial goals.
July 2, 2012
The value of your truck is an asset, which improves your net worth. The balance of an outstanding truck loan is a liability, decreasing net worth.
Business
ASECTT challenges ‘CSA is working’ contention
Trucking group disputes FMCSA’s statistical correlation between the Unsafe Driving and Fatigued Driving BASICs and actual crash rates.
June 27, 2012
Business
Rule reduces paperwork on intermodal equipment
Truckers operating intermodal equipment no longer are required to submit inspection reports if the equipment has no defects.
June 16, 2012
Voices
June O-O of the Month
Owner-operator’s dedication to business is an outgrowth of his commitment to his extended family.
June 8, 2012
Dedication to family parallels work ethic, shown here in 2003 with grandkids and the first truck he ever purchased.
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