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Trucking brotherhood ain't dead yet: Breakdown, $360K cargo theft brings out the best
An owner-operator's breakdown led to a $360K-plus cargo and trailer theft, but brought out the best of the trucking community. The owner-op and legions of comrades tracked down the stolen equipment, getting Robert "Rocket" Miceli's business back on the right track.
May 20, 2026
Business
Owner-ops respond to broker group's freakout over SCOTUS decision
After four years of brokers' increasingly intrusive "carrier vetting" practices, TIA says it's "impossible" to evaluate carrier safety. Owner-ops respond here, curse words omitted.
May 20, 2026
Small Fleet Champ
Trucking insurance: How to make underwriters fight for your business
An
Overdrive
2025 Small Fleet Champ's flatbed biz makes good on growth goals with a transparent promise to owner-operators: 15% of the gross for costs, no insurance chargebacks. "We had companies fighting over our business" this year, he said, with similarly transparent ELD data engagement.
May 18, 2026
Business
Last call! Weigh in on broker vetting and transparency, fraud, bond claims
ICYMI: Take Overdrive's survey on freight fraud, broker credit checks and other vetting. Middlemen's own reliance on “carrier vetting” systems is sure to grow with the recent SCOTUS broker-accountability ruling -- the survey digs in on those systems, nonpayment, bond claims, "chameleons" and transparency.
May 15, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Aim 'chameleon carrier' outrage at the real culprits
Small fleets and owner-ops -- all trucking factions, really -- should take care not to give ammo to a "circular firing squad" playing the blame game. There's plenty to go around, historically, for setting the stage. But the real culprits, networks perpetrating frauds on carriers and drivers, truly deserve all they get.
May 12, 2026
Overdrive Radio
FMCSA registration to go dark: How truckers can prep for Motus
May 14, at roughly 8 p.m. Eastern, is the deadline to take these steps to set your trucking business up to easily claim your new account in Motus when it launches next week. The new system will aim combat the FMCSA's "front door problem" to prevent bad actors' access.
May 11, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Trucking for the next generation: Advise your kids to take the wheel?
Would you advise a trucking career to your own children? Long Haul Paul asked, and these owners and drivers chimed in. A hard "no" was one answer. What's yours? Weigh in here.
May 7, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Roadcheck 2026: Toughest states for HOS violations
With CVSA's annual Roadcheck upcoming May 12-14, take a look at rankings for the toughest HOS-enforcement states, and ways owner-ops might prepare for inspectors' focus on ELD tampering, false logs.
May 4, 2026
Overdrive Radio
20% MPG boost: GDL Enterprise's right-place, right-time new-truck investment
Year 2025 was a rollercoaster mostly headed downhill for owner-op Greg Labosky, yet with a new truck purchased in January, he's improved fuel mileage considerably, by well more than a mile per gallon not even past break-in.
April 27, 2026
Regulations
TIA responds to 'chameleon carrier' firestorm around Super Ego, C.H. Robinson
The biggest broker trade group responded to the outrage over chameleon carriers. Questioned on some of the bolder points, TIA stopped short of defending any one broker's actions.
April 24, 2026
Overdrive Extra
'Road's good for thinking,' but real life's where it takes you back
Quick stop at the Joplin 44 at a crisis moment in the life of a team driver and his wife hundreds of miles away, an older trucker leaning against a worn Pete in the lot delivers a catharsis: "The road was still there, same as always ... but I wasn’t thinking about where it could take me..."
April 22, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Just how high has owner-ops' truck-trailer maintenance cost moved?
According to ATBS, in 2025 owner-operators spent upward of $14,000 on average. That's 15 cents of maintenance for every single mile run. What's your set-aside for truck and trailer upkeep? If you haven’t boosted the number in a while, there's no time like the present.
April 20, 2026
Overdrive Extra
Meeting a namesake: Dills Transportation's hand-throttle '07 Pete cleaned up in first show
Owner-operator Jeff Dills makes good on trucking determination despite a 1990s motorcycle accident robbing use of his legs. His 379 cleaned up in its first MATS, and caught Overdrive editor Todd Dills' eye for obvious reasons. Are the two related? Some likelihood, no doubt...
April 17, 2026
Channel 19
Volvo driver busted watching Star Trek while pulling doubles
The California Highway Patrol caught a Volvo hauling doubles and "boldly going where no driver should go" -- with Star Trek playing and screen time replacing windshield time.
April 15, 2026
Overdrive Extra
How to combat stress on road to trucking safety, OTR well-being
April is officially "Stress Awareness Month" around the U.S. and much of the world. Longtime trucker Clifford Petersen urges fellow drivers to take it seriously, offering a variety of small physical and social fixes he's used to combat.
April 14, 2026
Voices
The methodology behind 60 Minutes' Chameleon Carriers story
60 Minutes highlighted the dangers of chameleon carriers, but proprietary detection methodology and data matching powered the investigation.
April 13, 2026
Overdrive Radio
Smallest fault-code scanner worldwide? Diesel Laptops delivers diagnostic assist
As so many bootstrapped companies’ stories do, Diesel Laptops' starts in the trunk of the founder's car, from which he sold some of his early tools for all-makes fault-code diagnostics. For his efforts to bring independent tools to truck owners and techs, Tyler Robertson is now part of the Howes Hall of Fame.
April 13, 2026
Channel 19
Truckers take control of mainstream media
Against the odds, actual real-life truck owners and drivers have stepped up to control the narrative around trucking and secure major government and industry responses.
April 10, 2026
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Trucking brotherhood ain't dead yet: Breakdown, $360K cargo theft brings out the best
An owner-operator's breakdown led to a $360K-plus cargo and trailer theft, but brought out the best of the trucking community. The owner-op and legions of comrades tracked down the stolen equipment, getting Robert "Rocket" Miceli's business back on the right track.
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