Tag: Old Time Express

Electronic Logging Devices

The AOBRD-to-ELD shift: Data/edits and visibility at roadside

With AOBRDs, edits made in the back office as a general rule don’t present to the roadside officer. Under the ELD specification, however, data transmittal at roadside includes those edits. It also includes detailed records of the truck’s GPS positions, engine on-off records, engine hours and the like.

August 15, 2019

Overdrive Radio

More flexible sleeper splits: Didn’t take long for this newbie team to see potential value

Introducing Hartsville, Tenn.-based Tommy and Linda Bryant of Hartsville, Tenn., mid-careers but brand-new to trucking and operating a team. Would they use a 5/5 split if it were an option? You bet.

July 19, 2019

Electronic Logging Devices

ELD data handling: ‘Privacy is paramount,’ but practices vary

An ELD provider that’s committed to integrity, some industry watchers suggest, will make obvious to potential customers any secondary or outside use of their data that’s granted through the service agreement. Likewise, the company would give customers a conspicuously simple way to opt out of unnecessary data sharing.

June 5, 2019

Channel 19

What Isaac Ho did to prepare for the rates crash on the spot market

The past year’s fortune — and recent rates struggles, with so many others in spot freight — for one young own-authority business, with a keen eye toward controlling costs to get through any lean times. No. 1 action taken: He paid off his used-purchased 2015 Volvo entirely.

April 29, 2019

Business

No guarantees for fleets trying guaranteed pay

Efforts to improve retention and the driver experience have centered on detention and benefits, among other things instead of minimum pay. Details here.

July 6, 2018

Channel 19

‘Shipper of choice’ phrase on the rise, but what about its negative?

Be a "shipper of choice," not a "shipper of last resort." Overdrive sheds light on a growing problem of shippers taking advantage of truckers in the industry.

May 31, 2018

Electronic Logging Devices

What a difference a day makes: Where rates could spike

Where to look for the most likely ELD effect on rates? High-volume lanes between 500 and 750 miles, which analysts call the “dangerous lanes.” It’s those where load/unload hiccups or in-transit delays easily can extend a one-day haul into a second day.

August 10, 2017

Overdrive Radio

Making the e-log switch: The evolution of small fleet Old Time Express

“I know a lot of people, and especially a lot of drivers, would like to cut my head off when I say this …” — that’s Old Time’s Mark White in preamble to some perhaps underappreciated e-log lessons he delivers toward the end of this week’s Overdrive Radio podcast. File under: things people might not want to hear.

July 7, 2017

Channel 19

Driver before the truck in small fleet expansion

If the truck procurement/driver employment situation in small fleet expansion presents a chicken-egg type conundrum, operators would do well to focus on the driver first.

March 31, 2016

Business

Detention détente: Old Time Express

“Since we are on electronic logs, there’s no arguing about whether the truck’s there or not” at a shipper or receiver’s location. “It’s indisputable.” –Old Time’s Mark White on detention negotiations with shippers, brokers today

September 21, 2015

Business

Detention détente: Tables turn in carriers’, drivers’ favor in pay/rate negotiations

The tables finally are turning, as examined in this multipart feature. Fleets and owner-operators, for years in a losing battle with brokers and shippers over compensation for wasted dock time, are exercising improved leverage in negotiations.

September 14, 2015

Channel 19

Career advancement for the long haul: One small fleet’s growth story

While a family business is certainly not the only way to start and/or run a small fleet, it is one of the more common; run through Old Time Express here with Mark, Mitch and founder owner-operator Bo White.

January 26, 2015