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Ice Pick Bandit strikes again: Will the feds step in?
After yet another truck gets its tires stabbed up and some air lines cut, we asked law enforcement what exactly is being done to stop this criminal (or criminals). Though silence can be deafening, officials should be motivated to act. Here's why.
April 16, 2024
Kinship with old-school trucking drives photojournalist's new exhibit
Photojournalist and Air Force vet James Year rode 25,000 miles with truckers of all stripes with a goal to illustrate OTR trucking culture "while it still remained." His "Stealing Fire" exhibit is now up in Syracuse, New York, detailing the journey.
April 16, 2024
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March 15, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Your customer/broker says you ‘don’t need trailer coverage to pull their trailer’ -- true or false?
Warning -- just because your customer/broker says you don’t need non-owned trailer or trailer interchange coverage doesn’t mean you will not be liable if the trailer is damaged while in your “care, custody and control.” Here's why.
April 11, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Leave trucking better than you found it
It was a central message of a veritable sermon small fleet owner Jason Cowan delivered to MATS attendees. In this Overdrive Radio podcast, the thought-provoking talk tracks from the owner's history and early mentors to long-term relationship value.
April 8, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Roadcheck-ready resources: 'Ask Me Anything'-style live rap with CVSA coming May 1
Our friends and colleagues at CCJ are hosting a live Q&A with Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance roadside inspections guru Jeremy Disbrow May 1. That's two weeks ahead of Roadcheck -- all inspection questions, and Overdrive readers, welcome.
April 4, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Inside FMCSA's registration overhaul to 'clean up the bad actors'
Big changes to how carriers interact with FMCSA's registration system are on the way, aimed at rooting out bad actors lurking in the system today. Said FMCSA Director Ken Riddle: "We're going to clean up the bad actors."
April 1, 2024
Overdrive Extra
New group takes aim at 'trailerism' within trucking business and culture
Inside the formation of the Anti-Trailerism League of America, via Long Haul Paul's talk with the elusive founder: "We’ve got to make our fellow drivers realize that equipment aesthetics do not comprise identity. The trailer doesn’t define the man."
April 1, 2024
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champ Larry Limp's e-logs reckoning: 'I like that 10 hours off' ...
The older he gets, Larry Limp notes in this Overdrive Radio edition, "I like that 10 hours off." Dive into LNL Trucking world headquarters here for a trip back to Limp's first work OTR, first truck bought (a White COE) and keys to long-term success.
March 25, 2024
Partners in Business
2024 handbook for owner-operator business, start to finish, now available
Download the new Partners in Business guide to owner-operator business today, and if you're attending MATS, join us at 2:45 p.m. Friday, March 22, in the MATS Pro Talks Theater (B104 in the South Wing) for the official kickoff for this year's PIB program.
March 20, 2024
Channel 19
Insistent broker accidentally FaceTimes with nude driver on rest break
A young broker interrupts a driver's rest break more than a dozen times with repeated phone calls even though she's tracking him on an app. In the end, she gets more than she bargained for.
March 19, 2024
Overdrive Radio
On-highway toward MATS with 'Sisters of the Road' book tour, and its owner-operator pilot
View from the window of owner Debbie Desiderato's Western Star, toting the "Sisters of the Road" photo-exhibit trailer across the country toward MATS. The book tour's been a big share-the-road opportunity at the intersection of trucking and wider culture.
March 18, 2024
Overdrive Extra
5 can't-miss highlights upcoming at the Mid-America Trucking Show
From a wide array of small-business survival strategies for the down market to custom show truck builds, and much more in the way of educational sessions around freight fraud combat and industry advocacy, MATS has something for us all.
March 14, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Carriers’ right to review what the shipper paid for a brokered load
Knowing what the shipper paid for your brokered load on a case-by-case basis can help you determine whether you're treated fairly by the broker. That is, if you can get past barriers some brokers erect against a carrier's review of transaction records.
April 30, 2020
Trucker of the Year
Harnessing the wisdom of experience: A hallmark of the best among owner-ops
That's been the case for Overdrive's February Trucker of the Month Doug Viaille, though some of that "expensive wisdom" has been hard-won. In this edition of Overdrive Radio, track back through pivotal moments in Viaille's three decades-plus trucking.
March 11, 2024
Overdrive Extra
KW 100 postscript: A truck show in New Zealand, 'Just a Phase' still a phase
Kenworth's 100th anniversary wrapped up in January, but highlights keep rolling in, from a spectacularly huge truck show in New Zealand that finally got off the ground in early February to another close look at an old favorite, still a phase.
March 8, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Groundhog says it's time to prep for early Spring for owner-operator business
Takeaways from the tough 2023 year have fed emotional disappointment for many owners. But not only that. Biz difficulty triggers too-fast reactions. The management moves needed to secure the business for the long term happen more deliberately, slowly.
March 7, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Welcoming a new partner in owner-ops' start-to-finish resource
Ahead of the Overdrive/ATBS "Owner-operator survival strategies" session at MATS March 22, we're happy to welcome a new partner in our comprehensive guide to running an owner-operator business in Rush Truck Centers.
March 5, 2024
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Fog-blind trucker hits concrete barrier: Preventable?
2 a.m., and truck driver John Doe was in rain, fog on a tight two-lane highway bounded by concrete barriers. An oncoming truck blinded Doe with high beams, then swerved into his lane. Doe missed the truck, but not the barrier to his right. Preventable?
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