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Overdrive Extra
What a driver really needs
“As with so many trucking issues, a look at Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs brings us back to pay. Without money, the first basic needs, on which the entire pyramid sits, cannot be met. Last year drivers saw movement, but drivers need a sense of pride. How can we bring that back?”
April 9, 2019
Business
OnRoad mobile app from Comdata
The new OnRoad app complements Comdata’s OnRoad Card, one of the more widely accepted, multi-purpose fuel and driver funds card in trucking.
December 5, 2018
Voices
POLL: Independents, do you use a factoring company or other quick-pay service?
Independents, take the poll and let us know. Yes, no, or no, but often/sometimes I will take brokers' quick-pay service when available.
July 24, 2018
Overdrive Extra
Roadcheck prep: Invest in inspections to save money, hassle later
A good way to learn and gain confidence that you won’t get a roadside violation is to invest in equipment inspection, observe the inspection process at your shop/the scales, and ask questions.
May 22, 2018
Channel 19
‘100 percent OK’ to bring up detention before you get off the phone
‘Don’t leave money on the table,’ redux — that sentiment could increasingly include examinations of revenue and income per hour in your business’ accounting and analysis to help determine effective detention rates in broker/shipper negotiations.
February 13, 2018
Channel 19
Don’t leave money on the table
We are in a freight market owner-operator Gary Buchs believes to be “totally unpredictable” at this point, he says. “Weather, plus demand” generally, “is driving” such unpredictability, much of it on the plus side for rate pressure for owner-operators, “through the roof.”
January 4, 2018
Channel 19
Worship the robots: What a man at the center of Google’s self-driving tech lawsuit against Uber wants you to do
Self-driving truck startup Otto’s cofounder Anthony Levandowski has established a “Way of the Future” church to develop an AI Godhead. Before we jump to the pews in science-fiction-turned-reality joy, let’s keep the source in mind.
November 30, 2017
Business
Truckers land $855k payout from carrier for non-driving tasks
XPO Logistics is appealing a California’s agency’s award totaling $855,286 to four truckers for wage law violations, including under a 2016 state law mandating compensating “nonproductive time.”
May 4, 2017
Business
The funding for safety groups, the salaries of their chiefs
Funding levels in some recent years for Parents Against Tired Truckers, Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways (CRASH), somewhat-related group Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and others among the “safety advocacy” community — trucking’s loudest critics.
September 8, 2016
Voices
Inspirations in integrity
Blindside back through a gate and around some cars to position the trailer against the side of a building? No problem for this owner-operator, illustrating the value of integrity over all the money in the world …
July 29, 2016
Business
Who’s OOIDA given to so far this election season?
Data pulled for the period between Jan. 1, 2015, and March 31, 2016, shows no contributions to presidential candidates. It does show broad support for candidates with a record of backing policies also supported by OOIDA.
April 15, 2016
Voices
POLL: What’s your view of the ‘driver shortage’?
“Driver shortage” — myth or reality, all about trucker pay or a reflection of a younger generation’s generally unfavorable view of long-distance trucking, a by-product of a constraining regs enivronment? What’s your view?
December 15, 2015
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