Tag: owner-operator business model

Overdrive Radio
Partners in Business podcast: Getting started as an owner-operator
This Overdrive Radio podcast covers the first four chapters from the Partners in Business manual — from making the transition to self-employment, choosing a financial services partner, creating a strong business plan and establishing your bookkeeping.
January 31, 2018
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Overdrive Radio
Change for the better or nails in the coffin: Talking the future with Gary Carlisle
Whether the future landscape of greater risk translates to a boon for the future generations of owner-operators willing to assume the risk themselves as independents, or not, is one of many areas discussed in this podcast conversation with current owner/former operator Gary Carlisle.
March 17, 2016
Overdrive March 2016 cover
Overdrive Extra
Owner-operators’ decade of ‘working less and making more’
Looking at miles, revenue, income, maintenance costs and more, owner-operators worked longer but made less in recent years.
October 7, 2015
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Voices
Long live the owner-operator!
Is the owner-operator a dying breed? Voices responding to the question posed on the Overdrive Extra blog suggest a shift in profitability toward short-haul niches.
April 10, 2013
Trends among profitable owner-operators continue to show short-haul niche specialization bringing high rates and good net income.
Business
Editors to talk owner-operator history, new efforts
Overdrive editors will discuss owner-operators’ history and evolution on online radio’s “Truth About Trucking” show Dec. 1.
November 21, 2011
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Business
Pulse
Overdrive is proud of the role it continues to play in helping owner-operators get ever better at mastering the challenging job they do.
September 1, 2011
Pressure from the Teamsters, as reflected in this December 1969 cover photo of violence involving steel haulers, was one of the early conflicts owner-operators faced.
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