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Overdrive Radio
Time to account for independent dispatch services in regulation?
TIA wants limits on independent dispatchers to work for just one carrier, and if more, registration as a broker. Here, owner-ops weigh in via Overdrive Radio.
December 4, 2020
Business
New carrier admin portal from Uber Freight
Uber Freight debuted a new web-booking portal designed to help dispatchers simplify workflow, and a new app interface built to provide a more intuitive experience for carriers and drivers.
August 20, 2019
Business
BigRoad’s freight platform being extended to fleets and their dispatchers
BigRoad Freight is expanding its initial program for owner-operators using DashLink ELD data to optimize freight matching. Now, fleet dispatchers at companies on BigRoad’s logs system will be able to manage load assignments and help drivers avoid deadhead miles through the freight program.
April 24, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Nuevo Laredo: Mispronunciation perils and the boots and brokered loads that take you there
Enjoy this "mostly true" tall-tale from "Long Haul Paul" Marhoefer about his experience learning Spanish while trucking in Nuevo Laredo.
October 9, 2018
Channel 19
Drivers’ Night Before Christmas — a tribute from a dispatcher
Chipman Relocations’ Tina Pastore sends this poem out to all company employees and contracting owner-operators in advance of the Christmas holiday, a fitting driver tribute this time of year.
December 24, 2015
Business
Learning the support ropes: D’Ann Shapiro-Landman
How Shapiro-Landman transitioned to “glove-box office” manager for her husband’s soon-to-be-minted owner-operator business after a law enforcement career.
March 17, 2015
Business
Roads not taken, part 2: Drivers moving to carrier operations and other roles
Terminal management, planning, dispatching – there are a variety of roles to fill at any motor carrier. Former drivers are common in all of them.
January 8, 2015
Custom Rigs
GATS preview: Ted Bowers’ 2005 Peterbilt 379
Video, photos of Bowers’ combo unit, which he’ll be showing at GATS — and a brief follow-up on Animal Aid USA’s effort to transport fallen driver Richard Sullivan’s dog Bella back home. All systems go!
August 19, 2014
Channel 19
Dispatcher no-brainer and on-highway lemons
It’s not the really good dispatchers causing truckers to stick around — it’s those who embody the “dispatcher brains” slang making them leave. And: A bet on a light load for one driver after a blowout…
February 18, 2014
Business
One of the good dispatchers
“On the totem pole, drivers and dispatchers are at the same level” in many trucking companies, says Tim Bell II, the dispatcher Wendy Parker interviews in this story.
March 18, 2013
Business
It’s hard to admit you’re wrong
But herein, M. Wendy Parker does just that, heaping no small amount of praise on those “planners, CSRs and dispatchers” she may or may not have called orangutans at some past point…
October 24, 2012
Business
A pleasant difference between our former and present carriers
Our former carrier told us where to go and when. Our present carrier allows us to call ahead to confirm pick up and delivery details. It’s better this way.
April 17, 2012
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