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Regulations
Broker transparency: About boosting rates? Or a fight for carrier rights?
A debate between brokers and carriers rages on about what transparency might do to rates, but according to FMCSA and OOIDA, that's not the point. Rather, the issue is carriers' rights.
December 16, 2024
Overdrive Extra
'Don't hold your breath' on a trucking turnaround in 2025
With high hopes for the incoming Trump administration and the new year, Clifford Petersen warns against waiting for the cavalry on overtime pay for drivers, parking and/or any positive regulatory push. All will require plenty oxygen.
December 13, 2024
Overdrive Extra
A freight world without brokers: 'Carriers United' daring to do more than just dream
With time, this small fleet owner aims to build what he calls an "army of carriers" to deliver on goals: namely, to "put money back in the pockets of the carriers" in service to shippers, and relieve drivers of parking fees, tow threats.
December 11, 2024
Trucker of the Year
Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 TOTY 'exit interviews'
Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year contenders have battled soft freight and sluggish rates with moves large and small. Here, four contenders map out their experience through the year, delivering insight on business decision-making.
December 9, 2024
Hours of Service
Sleeper berth: Should more truckers be able to split as they see fit?
Essentially, that's what team operators hauling for McKee foods have been able to do -- including 5/5- and 6/4-hour combinations -- since 2015, when granted an exemption. Weigh in with this update utilizing Overdrive's new poll module.
July 10, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Post-election optimism yields opportunity: A new start for your trucking business
A big shift in mood post-election -- with so many owners having hung on for months, even years for the chance to move forward with optimism -- delivers opportunity for a reset. Yet don't let knee-jerk reaction overtake the necessity of careful planning.
December 3, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Trump II and the outlook for speed limiters, broker transparency, parking push
Can regulatory efforts -- whether generally favored (transparency) or not (speed limiters) -- survive a second Trump term? In this Overdrive Radio, OOIDA leaders Todd Spencer, Lewie Pugh offer perspective on that question and much more.
December 2, 2024
Overdrive Extra
We're thankful! And: Kick the tires of Overdrive's new 'Load Profit Analyzer'
A message of thanks to all the owner-operators in the audience. And: First look at a load profit comparison calculator we'd love for you to kick the tires on. Take a run through Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer.
November 28, 2024
Channel 19
Trucker cited for being too festive: Police
A Volvo festooned in multi-colored Christmas lights got ticketed by Kansas Highway Patrol, and the post announcing the incident blew up into a heated conversation on just how festive drivers can be.
November 27, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Broker 'confessions' novel aims at seedy underbelly of digital freight culture
"Confessions of a Freight Broker" is authored by a former broker and here reviewed by Long Haul Paul, who notes it's time for a serious conversation about money, and how much of it in trucking is making its way to those behind the wheel.
November 27, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Time to put an owner-operator behind the wheel of FMCSA?
"I like a challenge," said owner-operator Lee Schmitt of his campaign to head FMCSA. Schmitt has been working the incoming Trump administration, and promises to bring experience, hard work to the agency.
November 26, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Owner-op Garrett Steenblik's 200-lb. weight loss journey
Steenblik found not only greater physical health but, ultimately, bedrock mental well-being. With his new Trucker's Body Shop business, he hopes to help deliver that to any fellow OTR hauler who needs it, who truly wants it for themselves.
November 25, 2024
Business
Uber Freight launched what sounds like a load board -- or is it 'double brokering'?
Digital freight broker Uber Freight opened up a new "Broker Access" avenue for other brokers to tap UF's carrier network. Is that "double brokering?" Some freight middlemen had a meltdown over it, but do carriers even care?
November 22, 2024
Voices
POLL: Your view of FMCSA's broker transparency proposal?
It's a 78-pager of a notice issued earlier this week, we know, but: If you've now had time to digest the details, do you think the changes, if implemented, stand to materially impact rates and/or brokered-freight market dynamics? Weigh in here.
November 22, 2024
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champs pay it forward: Hard-earned trucking knowledge
Today on Overdrive Radio, the annual roundtable with Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ finalists, featuring mistakes made and overcome, trucking business lessons learned, and a strong pay-it-forward focus for the next generation of ownership.
November 18, 2024
Voices
Fraud in supply chain not just a ‘broker problem’
TIA President Chris Burroughs responds to news of FMCSA's Operation Protect Your Load broker-regs-enforcement initiative aimed in part at the fraud problem. "This fraud is not completely a 'broker problem,'" Burroughs notes.
November 14, 2024
Overdrive Extra
You don’t get any do-overs: A word of caution about expanding by leasing on owner-operators
"Once it goes wrong, just like it did for me, it’s too late." The words of W. Joel Baker here offer a warning for one-truck owners against too-quick expansion without careful preparation and due diligence around operators you're contracting with.
November 13, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Veterans Day special: Coalition supporting vets in ag careers honored in Howes Hall of Fame
Farmer Veteran Coalition CEO Jeanette Lombardo's personal story of how, in the midst of the pandemic, she would come to be inspired by and, then, intimately involved in leading an organization with a worthy mission.
November 11, 2024
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