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Contract opportunities, strategy shifts for the smallest carriers
In addition to direct freight contracts, COVID-19 has opened myriad other new opportunities for nimble small fleet owner-ops, some with brokers. Read more here.
November 20, 2020
Business
No Turning Back: New era for direct freight
Contract innovations are emerging due to COVID-19 economic turmoil and are translating to long-term opportunities for the smallest truckers. More on Overdrive.
November 18, 2020
Channel 19
Owner-operator George Berryâs new intermodal group pushing for $60/hour detention at Va. port
Owner-operator George Berry and the relatively newly formed Virginia Port Truckers Association is extending what he calls an âopen invitation to company drivers and owner-operatorsâ for this Saturday, March 9, and a meeting at which the association will begin to establish governance, amid detention-pay push at port.
March 4, 2019
Channel 19
Beating back too many brokersâ wrongheaded mentality: âKeep the shipper happy no matter what it costs the carrierâ
Addressing a freight broker's wrongheaded mentality with Overdrive Online. Get more details and other trucking industry news right here on Overdrive Online.
February 20, 2019
Channel 19
Howâs a 21-hour wait to unload at 21 below sound?
Think your customer might tell you the delivery location is going to close with the weather? Think again ⌠Also: Port of Baltimore container haulers picket over wait times at Seagirt terminal; âslow rollâ press attention-grabber last weekend drew several dozen haulers and others in Illinois.
January 31, 2019
Channel 19
The broker-margin transparency federal law already affords to carriers who request it
Owner-operators have a âright to reviewâ amounts paid by shippers, collected by brokers and disbursed to themselves in any brokered freight transaction. But a right does nothing for anyone if not exercised â too many truckers, watchers contend, just arenât aware of this one.
January 9, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Beware what you sign with brokers: Freight-payment offsetting of cargo claims a âsuckerâs gameâ
Ever had a broker give you load after load following a cargo claim, then never pay you for any of them? Such can be the case when âright to offsetâ clauses are included in a brokerage contract. Issues discussed in this Overdrive Radio edition with transportation attorney Hank Seaton, with an outline also of ways to revamp the safety-rating system for small-fleet/owner-op benefit.
December 3, 2018
Business
Food Safety Modernization Actâs requirements for perishables haulers, and unintended consequences
Carriers are responsible for being able to provide information about previous loads hauled, documentation of the vehicle's cleaning, and proper pre-cooling. Details here.
May 15, 2018
Channel 19
Negotiating the brokerage contract: Back solicitation, detention and more
Leander Richmond of Mich.-based eight-truck Eagle Express Inc. learned the hard way of one brokerâs no-detention-pay standard policy at first-come first-served shipper/receiver facilities â likewise the âinsultingâ offer when he objected.
February 14, 2017
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: Supply chain mandating ELDs?, Wal-Mart moving toward cab cameras, nolo contendere for operator
Reporting out of Arkansas: Wal-Martâs private fleet begins to test in-cab camera systems. Howard Salmon pleas out from under a following-too-close citation. And: one regular reader calls foul on the notion that brokers/shippers will require ELDs in contracts for exempt truckers post-mandate.
December 15, 2016
Overdrive Radio
Mailbag: âMajor trucking issueâ â detention at shippers/receivers and its income, safety impact
How big is the problem of detention at shippers and receivers for American truckers? For readers of Overdrive, itâs a âmajor issue,â in the words of more than one youâll hear in this âmailbagâ edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast.
July 22, 2016
Business
Future of brokerage: Cargo Chief to bet on pay for time
Cargo Chief head Abtin Hamidi wants to âchange the way freight [movement] is bought and sold,â he says â the company plans to launch a lump-sum pay-for-time model in its contracts with independents and small fleets.
February 9, 2016
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