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How truckers can flip the script on the negativity trap
How to overcome automatic negative thoughts (ANTs), stuck in an eastbound traffic jam with westbound clear. Thoughts of persecution (usually only within one’s mind) bleed easily into real relationships. Yet there's a path forward past the ANTs.
September 13, 2024
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Trucking on the National Mall: Tony Justice to perform at TenFour D.C. event this year
Fred Bowerman, a longtime organizer, hopes for improved participation in this year's TenFour event. As this video makes clear, sponsorships from a variety of trucking vendors, organizations and fleets have bolstered participating drivers' plans.
September 11, 2024
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Investment diligence: Owner-op's profitable path to retirement
Nearing the end of a nearly 35-year run of consistently putting aside 15%-20% of his income, owner-operator Alan Kitzhaber's gotten close to where he truly wants to go -- that’s retirement, following 4 million miles in his long-running 1995 T600.
September 9, 2024
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Ice Pick Bandit: Case timeline and friendly warning
A look at the timeline of recorded Ice Pick Bandit attacks up and down I-75 show a pattern leading into Halloween. Here's everything we know about the fugitive vandal(s) as law enforcement continues the search.
September 6, 2024
Ice Pick Bandit
Business
Catch the replay: How to build business for trucking's down cycles
Register to view the August 22 online event, featuring insights on building owner-operator and small fleet business to weather the worst of trucking's business cycles.
September 4, 2024
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Truck parking bullpens at shippers: Make it mandatory?
Long Haul Paul asks this question after an uncommonly positive experience with the truck bullpen and a welcoming attitude at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Plant City, Florida. Here, point of view from five stakeholders, from owner-ops to safety directors.
September 3, 2024
bullpen at C&S Wholesale Grocers, Plant City, Florida
Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Month Alan Kitzhaber: 4 million miles, ever greater efficiency for his '95 T600
With all those safe miles in the rear view in just a single truck, the owner joins a pretty exclusive club. How'd he do it? This week's Overdrive Radio talk reveals a keen focus on preventive maintenance, and increasing efficiency.
July 15, 2024
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Regulations
POLL: Brake Safety Week blitz ended August 31 -- did you get inspected?
Weigh in with your experience of last week's in-the-books brakes-inspection initiative. What jurisdictions were out in force that you saw?
August 30, 2024
Inspection Barn
Channel 19
2024's most outrageous inspection fail? Mountain Dew box as a hub cover over leaky wheel seal
When it comes to inspection fails, this one might qualify for as an all-timer. This operator's attempt to use a box of soda as a hub cover over a leaky seal has interesting historical implications, but as for the immediate future, he's out of service.
August 28, 2024
Semi-truck tire with part of a Mountain Dew box as a wheel cover allowing a wheel seal to leak oil,
Overdrive Radio
Brake blitz week re-air: Inspections should be 'preventive,' not 'punitive'
Owner-operator Warren McCurdy made clear his bone to pick with the federal CSA scoring program and all its ripple effects throughout trucking and roadside inspection systems. This Overdrive Radio originally aired in February. Listen back here.
August 26, 2024
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Channel 19
'Stop dealing with brokers who treat you like garbage'
The Broker Carrier Summit, a relatively new semi-annual conference aimed at facilitating hard conversations between and real progress for truckers and freight middlemen, is set for October 23-25. Hear from BCS President Dan Lindsey here.
August 21, 2024
Broker Carrier Summit
Overdrive Radio
Owner-ops react to market challenges: Lightning round from Waupun
From what could be the final Waupun Truck-N-Show, held last weekend in Wisconsin, five owners detailed their pivots, or lack thereof, in response to the long-ongoing market slump, for this edition of Overdrive Radio.
August 19, 2024
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Overdrive Extra
Survival strategies for this down market -- and the next one: Live Aug. 22
Join us next week to participate in a roundtable with three pros all at different points on their journey through the trucking world, detailing lessons learned from and moves made in response to the cost/revenue squeeze.
August 14, 2024
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POLL: Who's most likely to get your vote for President this November?
With major-party nominees set following a shakeup this Summer, and an independent candidate in the race, who's most likely at this point to get your vote for President this Fall?
August 13, 2024
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Overdrive Radio
A fair shot at sharing the road, with or without the robots' help
Trucker of the Month Mike Nichols' careful approach to business extends to perhaps the biggest challenge for OTR owner-ops going: bedrock safety on highways where distraction has become something of a norm.
August 12, 2024
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Overdrive Extra
Final Waupun Truck-N-Show kicks off
The 35th Waupun Truck-N-Show is underway through Saturday night in Waupun, Wisconsin, with hundreds of trucks expected for the event.
August 9, 2024
Waupun Truck-N-Show trucks lined up
Overdrive Extra
UPDATE: Would-be FMCSA registration hackers claim to fight fraud with latest phishing expedition
FMCSA's latest impersonators in the "hacker community" are sending a fake information request claiming to be protecting carriers against fraud. And: How's this for a hotshot? Small fleet owner Rudy Yakym Jr.'s maiden semi-retired voyage in '22 Ram 5500.
July 25, 2024
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Overdrive Extra
After engine failure, owner-op John Fuller's lucky lease on his business' life
Fuller's been on a long haul now through trucking, back to "feeling like a rookie again" in a 2025 Freightliner he's lucky to have, as Overdrive Extra contributor Gary Buchs notes. Here, Fuller's outlook for business after a fairytale series of events.
August 6, 2024
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10,000 CDL drivers out-of-service for ELP: Where's the rates bump?
Are 10,000 drivers really sidelined after ELP violations? Or are some states letting them drive on? Overdrive finds the real story.
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