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PIB TIP: KEEP UP WITH A CHANGING MARKET. Use your
PIB TIP: KEEP UP WITH A CHANGING MARKET. Use your personal profit and loss statement to compare your performance with your business plan and budget. Your profit and loss statement should show weekly, monthly and annual costs and revenue, as well as miles driven and cost per mile. Compare your profit and loss report with [ā€¦]
March 2, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Arrow Trucking: Lawsuits, blame and good news
Some new developments emerged in recent days with Arrow Trucking, now two months after its Dec. 22 closing. Two items are from the Tulsa World. One details how lawsuits filed individually against executives are moving forward even though bankruptcy proceedings protect the company Ā from further lawsuits. Several of the civil cases are against Former CEO [ā€¦]
February 24, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Credit card statements include free cold shower
You might have heard that banks have to play by new rules with their credit card terms and disclosures, starting today. If youā€™ve never faced the music when it comes to credit card abuse, your chance is about to come. One of the more digestible ā€“ and eye-popping ā€“ bits of information that now must [ā€¦]
February 22, 2010
Overdrive Extra
ā€˜Ice Road Truckerā€™ comes home to thaw
Carlile Transportationā€™s George Spears When I rode with Alaskan Haul Road driver George Spears in the summer of 2006, he was planning to retire in the next year or so. However, he kept postponing the day. Then he was asked to stay for production of the third season of the History Channelā€™s ā€œIce Road Truckersā€ [ā€¦]
February 11, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Is it recovery yet?
Itā€™s hard some weeks to stack up the economic reports and figure if things are getting better or worse. This week was no exception.
February 5, 2010
Overdrive Extra
A confident public and stronger freight
Two bits of news breaking Wednesday offered some encouragement that the economy, and trucking with it, will continue rebounding.
January 27, 2010
Overdrive Extra
More bad news about your lifestyle
Truckingā€™s lifestyle has always gotten a bad rap for its impact on health because of driver inactivity, stress and poor diet, among other things. New studies bring even more bad news, and you donā€™t want to take this sitting down: Staying seated for prolonged periods, even when combined with regular exercise, could be bad for [ā€¦]
January 21, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Early warning signs at Arrow Trucking
One of the lessons to come out of the Arrow Trucking collapse is to recognize warning signs and take appropriate action.
January 18, 2010
Business
Independent named Trucker of the Month
Jacksonville, Ala., resident Tim Costen describes what it takes to stay in business as an independent contractor.
January 12, 2010
Tim Costen
Overdrive Extra
Clothes, fuel and computers lead factory report
Clothing was one of nine growing sectors that produced the fifth consecutive month of expansion for the nationā€™s manufacturing sector.
January 7, 2010
Business
Mixed results from safety blitz
The results indicated a lower rate of out-of-service violations and citations for drivers and vehicles.
December 30, 2009
Business
Index at yearā€™s highest level
The seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.7 percent in November.
December 30, 2009
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