Tag: independent owner-operators

Business

Computing the owner-operator business — Part 2

Part 2 of this series features explores the landscape for web-based models for trucking management software for small fleets and independents — and the mobile integration on the way.

September 21, 2012

Channel 19

LETTER: Shippers ultimately responsible for payments

Denver-based independent Tom Koller spells out a court case that placed ultimately responsibility for freight payment on shippers.

June 27, 2012

Channel 19

NEW VIDS: Explorations of ATDynamics’ TrailerTail

At bottom, find a vid from ATDynamics featuring its new trailer-tail design for vans with rear roll doors, but along the way I thought I’d share some video from my meeting late last year with Brett Tobin (pictured), independent owner-operator of Tobin Trucking, based in the Pacific Northwest. Tobin was featured in my fellow Overdrive […]

March 7, 2012

Channel 19

Calling all independents; New profile series seeks nominations

Are you an owner-operator running with your own authority? A two-three-truck fleet owner with a unique approach to trucking success? If you’ve been following Overdrive Dollars & Sense columnist and radio host Kevin Rutherford’s columns over the past couple months, you know he’s gotten into a series about taking your business to the next level […]

July 25, 2011

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: FIXED AND VARIABLE COSTS. A fixed cost is

PIB TIP: FIXED AND VARIABLE COSTS. A fixed cost is determined and does not change from month to month. Any expense related to time, such as a tractor payment, insurance payment, permit and license fees, is a fixed cost. That cost will be the same every day whether your truck is driven one mile or […]

August 10, 2010

Partners in Business

PIB TIP: COSTS VARY MONTHLY. If you drive 9,600 mi

PIB TIP: COSTS VARY MONTHLY. If you drive 9,600 miles one month and 10,000 miles the next, you’ll have two sets of costs for each month. If your monthly tractor payment is $1,850 and you drive 9,600 miles in a month, the payment will cost 19.3 cents per mile. But, if you drive 10,000 miles, […]

August 2, 2010

Channel 19

Flatbedders, had enough of tarping? . . .

You might recommend the folks at Fast Wrap to your shipper customers, who do the kind of work you see in the picture here, a wrap of a jet engine. They’ve got mobile crews in more than 60 locations around the country who do the work, and the wrapping material is then recycled by the folks at […]

April 30, 2010

Business

Bennett recruiting 200-plus owner-operators

A nationwide recruitment campaign to lease on more than 200 new owner-operators in 30 days.

April 16, 2010