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Do thorough winter prep and avoid downtime
The stresses on your truck from operating in severe winter weather could lead to downtime if you don’t take time to prepare. Here’s how.
November 16, 2020
Overdrive Extra
Midwestern God strikes back: Mild winter gives way to tough decisions this COVID-19 season
During this season of the coronavirus outbreak, Paul gives insight on tough decisions surrounding the pandemic and life on the road. Read more on Overdrive.
April 3, 2020
Equipment
Fuel additives – before and after pumping
Pilot Flying J, Love’s and TravelCenters of America are among truck stops using cold-flow broad spectrum additives to treat fuel at cold-weather locations for the winter. Off-the-shelf additives remain popular, but more additive doesn’t necessarily equal better protection.
December 30, 2019
Custom Rigs
Round-up: Brood of kittens hauled Hayward to San Diego, a 1940 COE project out west, and — more proof W9’s a work truck
A look at J.D. Howard’s restored 1995 W900L — a show-worthy unit we saw at MATS — doing what it does in the Great Lakes winter; imagine the surprise of the jobsite crew in San Diego when a 60-foot steel column start mewling at them; and: Howard Salmon’s 1940 Chevy COE find.
May 22, 2019
Business
Rates continue seasonal slide, severe weather’s spot impact as yet minimal
DAT Solutions reports that spot truckload rates dipped again despite higher freight volumes than at this time in each of the past three years. Learn more here.
February 15, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Local/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more
This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his home base, and a newly built six-bay shop. Balancing the volume/cost tradeoffs is one of the many calculations the owner’s learned to make over his years in business.
February 1, 2019
Channel 19
How’s a 21-hour wait to unload at 21 below sound?
Think your customer might tell you the delivery location is going to close with the weather? Think again … Also: Port of Baltimore container haulers picket over wait times at Seagirt terminal; “slow roll” press attention-grabber last weekend drew several dozen haulers and others in Illinois.
January 31, 2019
Business
Spot market trend to watch: Potential upsides with the disruption of extreme cold
Last week’s demand indicators for truckers in the spot freight markets retained solid footing in slippery winter weather. This week’s extreme cold has slowed things down, but such situations have a tendency to drive rates up. Watch for the upside as thaws in the Midwest and elsewhere arrive.
January 31, 2019
Business
Down another 4-5 cents/mile: Average spot rates in the last week, all segments
Truckload capacity, with more truckers advertising their availability to haul via the load boards, is building in the first weeks of 2019. National average spot rates for dry van, reefer and flatbed are going the other direction. Showing signs of the mid-Winter seasonal slump getting well under way, the number of trucks on the spot […]
January 24, 2019
Business
Spot market: Rates tick up, demand’s flat, and fuel is falling
For the week ending Jan. 5, Capacity imbalance produced big gains in national average load-to-truck ratios for flatbed, though reefer and van were stable or unchanged. That could spell little movement in vans and reefers this week.
January 11, 2019
Channel 19
How do you prevent cracks in your convex mirrors?
Cold-weather issues, take one. Enquiring minds among readers want to know: “I have had my convex mirrors crack in the wintertime more than once and was wondering if I am the only one and what people have found to stop it.”
January 18, 2018
Business
Reefer rates follow van to winter lows, particularly out West
With last week’s spot market update, it looked like van rate averages on many lanes might have been near the bottom for this slow season. It’s looking that way for reefer rates now, and spot market volumes have been relatively constant in the segment.
February 22, 2017
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