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No, the DOT did not remove a speed limiter requirement
Contrary to a news story circulating around the internet and tarnishing truckers' reps in the process, the U.S. DOT did not remove a requirement that heavy-duty trucks be speed-governed. Those who wish to use speed limiters can still do so.
July 1, 2025
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Owner-op Kevin Bruns: A Millennial's journey through car haul and tanker to dump and now step deck
Owner-op Kevin Bruns raced his 2019 LoneStar in this past weekend's Semi Stampede at Kuhnle Motorsports Park in Ohio. With his authority today, Bruns pulls a step deck after several years of local dump truck ownership and work around quarries and construction sites in the Nashville, Tennessee, region.
July 1, 2025
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Safety, competition: What's your view of driverless trucks?
Will on-highway trucks without an operator behind the wheel ever be feasible in large-enough numbers to provide competition for owner-operators? Weigh in here with your views around automated driving technology and thoughts on potential timing for its competitiveness with traditional operations.
June 26, 2025
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When will owner-operators have to compete with truly 'driverless' trucks?
We've heard the "driverless" marketing for a decade. But with recent commercial autonomous implementation, this Overdrive Radio episode aims for an answer to the question of just what's the reality right now, likewise offers opportunity for owners to weigh in.
June 24, 2025
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OTR lonesome: Proactive measures to fill the social void with real connection
How to beat social-media "Fear of Missing Out," build real connections over the road, and enjoy trucking with a renewed sense of awe. "There’s something profound about feeling small in the grand scheme of things. That’s awe at its most basic...." --Clifford Petersen
June 18, 2025
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Small Fleet Champ
Doing it right the first time: Small Fleet Champ Paul Rissler, for the long haul
In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, listen into a tour around the headquarters of Paul Rissler Transportation, current Small Fleet Champ, on the old home place for the big Rissler trucking family.
June 16, 2025
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Trucking's TikTok generation reports harassment, but they're here for the long haul
New survey results find Gen Z truckers heavily influenced by social media and feeling pressure to glamorize the job online.
June 13, 2025
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Visual tour, impressions of the ATHS 2025 National Convention
Overdrive 2024 Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber offers this window on the ATHS National Convention, held last week, June 4-6, in Madison, Wisconsin, and featuring 850-plus trucks from all along the past century and more.
June 13, 2025
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Trucker marketing 101: How small fleets and owner-operators stand out online
Small trucking companies operate in extra-competitive markets. A few well-placed online assets can help you engage more clients and show your audience that you might be a small biz, but you're professional and reliable enough for big contracts.
June 11, 2025
A key marketing piece for any trucking business is a central company website like these, from recent-history Overdrive Small Fleet Championship finalists (clockwise from top left) LNL Trucking, Hell Bent Xpress, and John McGee Trucking.
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Roadcheck fails crossing the scales in 2025
From securement nightmares to air lines that breathe in all the wrong places and tires that once were but are no more, here's some of the worst inspection fails from Roadcheck 2025.
June 10, 2025
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Trucker of the Year
Consistency, focus on long-term relationship value: Trucker of the Month Rufus Morris
Morris you can for sure call a little old-school in approach, yet he clearly keeps an eye on new ways and new people, too. In today’s episode of Overdrive Radio, you’ll hear from him a clear priority placed on business relationships invested in, cemented over time.
June 9, 2025
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'Catch you on that Westbound I-40': Remembering Mirah Lesa 'Yo-Yo' Worley Hughes
A legend of the 1970s/'80s trucking generation passed June 2. Long Haul Paul here reflects on his 2021 talk with 'Yo-Yo' Worley, invoking what she'd wanted at the end: "Find an overpass where there's no on- or off-ramp, wait for the wind to blow Westbound, and pour me out over the road."
June 3, 2025
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Knowing what 'might' work isn't enough: How four owner-ops learn from biz failures
The owner-operator brain trust that is the Trucking Solutions Group lent us a window into their decades of combined experience at MATS in a panel discussion called "Failing! ... to Succeed," acknowledging there's a whole heck of a lot all of us learn from our own, and others', failures.
June 2, 2025
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Regulations
Trump's English language proficiency mandate extremely popular with truckers: Survey
Overdrive collected a vast array of opinions and perspectives on President Donald Trump's English language proficiency crackdown and review of non-domiciled CDLs and found overwhelming support.
May 29, 2025
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'One Big Beautiful Bill' that needs to be prettier for company drivers
There's a good bit to like for owner-operators and fleets in the House-passed budget bill, but there’s a lot that’s not so beautiful for truckers, too, particularly company drivers. Clifford Petersen here breaks down what he feels Senators need to prioritize as they consider their own version.
May 28, 2025
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Honoring a father's legacy with Tim Eacret of EZ Pete Interiors
There are some dads who, in not giving their children everything they’d like materially, wind up giving them something of far greater value. That describes the father of Tim Eacret, proprietor of truck-upholstery specialist EZ Pete Interiors, who honors his dad's legacy in this week's Overdrive Radio.
May 26, 2025
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When an exit plan becomes a liability: For sale by owner-op, Part 2
When selling a piece of truck equipment yourself, loosely conceived agreements with a purchaser that involve nothing more than a verbal discussion between seller and buyer -- it happens quite often in this business -- can be recipes for disaster.
May 21, 2025
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Meeting an out-of-service, non-citizen driver who can't read English
A conversation with a foreign driver revealed his support for Trump's English language proficiency mandate as an instrument toward his own personal growth.
May 21, 2025
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