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Business
Real Women in Trucking names 2020 Queens of the Road
Three women have been named Queens of the Road by the Real Women in Trucking. A ceremony will be held Aug. 29 in Las Vegas. In other news: A trucker was named a Highway Angel for stopping to help a motorcyclist who hit a deer. A new diesel option for expediters in cargo vans.
July 20, 2020
Business
New online cargo-van configurator
From the Weather Guard company, this interactive, online tool allows commercial users to visually build out custom van upfits for Ford Transit and Ford Transit Connect models, with other models to follow in future.
July 12, 2019
Business
Delivering cannabis ā and cash ā in California
A look at the burgeoning cannabis and cash distribution businesses in Californiaās newly legal recreational cannabis market ā via two operations with different areas of emphasis, both utilizing cargo vans for the work.
April 15, 2019
Business
Cargo van hauling: Operating with authority, and the āmulticarrierā model
With few owner-ops operating with authority in the expedited niche, around the time of the Great Recession many van drivers were desperate for any way to stay loaded. A multicarrier model arose in which van owner-operators essentially negotiate loads in leased arrangements with a multiplicity of expedited carriers.
April 10, 2019
Business
The lowdown on downsizing: Hauling in the cargo van owner-op niche
With its under-10,001-pounds regulatory category, cargo-van hauling might seem to hold the key to addressing some of the biggest complaints among Class 8 owner-operators. But its easy-in/easy-out rep isnāt always justified, and plenty challenges are shared between it and the Class 8 world.
April 8, 2019
Overdrive Radio
90-plus-inch double-bunk sleeper in a cargo van? You bet
Cargo-van owner-operators Darren and Trish Ayres, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, haul in the CDL-required hazmat military-freight niche, and worked with Oak Ridge, Tenn.-based Fastlane Products to build a unique sleeper set-up in their Mercedes Sprinter van. Also: More onerous inspection practices that could use discouragement.
March 15, 2019
Overdrive Radio
1970s, 2010s trucking parallels, and: Hauling away (or into) the headaches with a cargo van
In this edition of Overdrive Radio find audio from part of Max Heineās talk with John Strong about his memories of the 1970s and beyond, and more from my own sit-down with Load Oneās John Elliott, about headache boxes checked by the cargo van hauling niche in expediting ā not without its significant challengesā¦
March 8, 2019
Business
Owner-operator Tim Paxton of Ohio named Expediter of the Year
Nominated for this year's award by several among his fellow haulers, Paxton transitioned to running in a cargo van after some years hauling Class 8 tanker.
July 23, 2018
Business
Making the jump: Cost, profit potential, biz basics of adding trucks on offer at Expedite Expo
Panelists talk about how experience as leased owner-ops āmade it a lot easierā to make the transition to managing contracts, financing pieces of equipment.
July 20, 2018
Business
A different kind of business model
Learning about cargo van operators who lease their vans to multiple carriers.
March 1, 2012
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