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Insurance premium refunds: Know your rights -- update
Owner-operator and insurance agent W. Joel Baker on "unearned premium" refunds due to those who cancel an insurance policy. Above all, he notes, don’t let any unethical insurance company bully or intimidate you out of what is legally owed to you.
October 17, 2022
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Health care horror stories and how to avoid catastrophe
With this year's open enrollment period for the ACA's exchanges starting Nov. 1, Gary Buchs lays out the stories of three owner-ops' approaches to health insurance coverage, and the sometimes catastrophic business consequences of going uninsured.
October 31, 2022
Life
POLL: Retirement -- do you feel financially prepared?
Given the general fall in stocks investments this year, we've heard from many owners who worry about their plans laid coming up short -- where are you when it comes to preps for retirement? Weigh in here.
October 31, 2022
Channel 19
Stuff an emotional-support animal in the cupholder | Pallet hoarders' potential big break
The "lowly, disrespected wooden pallet finally gets its tech due" .... And: Your chance to carry a pet in the truck -- no litter box or long bathroom breaks/walks needed.
October 28, 2022
Small Fleet Champ
Roundtable: Small Fleet Champs on biggest difficulties overcome
Small Fleet Champ finalists answered this question: What's been your biggest business challenge of the past year or two, and what have you done to combat it/mitigate effects? Sit in on the wide-ranging discussion in this Overdrive Radio podcast.
October 28, 2022
Channel 19
FMCSA/DOT getting serious about double-brokering?
FMCSA Administrator Robin Hutcheson this week urged carriers and brokers alike to report double-brokering, well on the rise the last couple of years as crooks take advantage of the FMCSA's registration system. Let's let her hear about the bad actors.
October 27, 2022
Overdrive Extra
Getting close to 65? Now's the time to understand the realities around Medicare for health care needs
Contrary to road rumors, the health insurance available to those 65-plus isn't a totally free ride. An open enrollment period from October 15 through December 7 is under way -- new and longtime enrollees can examine the changes for the following year.
October 25, 2022
Life
POLL: Owner-operators, what's your current health insurance situation?
With the Affordable Care Act's exchanges' open-enrollment period set to begin November 1 -- running through January 15 -- now's the time to start thinking about potential changes to your health insurance. Are you currently covered? Weigh in here.
October 25, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Faces of the Road: Betting on the 'highest common denominator' with Road Dog's Jimmy Mac
Long Haul Paul Marhoefer guest-hosts, in part, this edition of Overdrive Radio, featuring one among his Faces of the Road oral histories with none other than Dave Nemo Weekends host Jimmy Mac about his elevation of trucking talk radio.
October 21, 2022
Parking
How owner-ops can fight back in the war on truck parking
Trucking may have an image problem, but a closer look at two of the main arguments against allowing truck parking in residential areas -- even at home on an owner-op's own property -- exposes plenty in the way of potholes.
October 19, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Trucking in a recession? Owner-operators sound off, messages mixed depending on niche
Drop back two weeks in time in today's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast to the site of the Mayberry Truck Show in NC, where six owners and operators answered the question in the title. Times are tough, many acknowledged, but optimism showed through.
October 14, 2022
Voices
In-cab technology investments may not be enough to prevent accidents
Trucking companies should consider becoming involved at the high-school level to improve driver education curriculums in an effort to improve safety on the roadways.
October 11, 2022
Parking
POLL: Does your town prevent you parking the truck at home?
Following recent reporting about a rash of incidents in various of locales -- some rural, even -- where owner-operators have been barred from parking a truck on a residential property, this poll asks whether that's the case in your town. Weigh in here.
October 12, 2022
Overdrive Extra
The joy of being lost
Sometimes the wrong road turns out to be the right one, notes Long Haul Paul in this tale of grace found. "Do people still even get lost? You remember the things that happen to you when you take the wrong road. Sometimes there's a grace that emerges."
October 11, 2022
Overdrive Radio
Connecting the dots: FMCSA's electronic-ID questions, Level 8 wireless inspections, autonomous trucks
FMCSA's recent request for comment on the notion of a required electronic-ID in trucks sets the stage for public discussion around increasingly automated inspections of traditionally manned and future automated trucks.
October 7, 2022
Channel 19
Double-brokering scams that can result in theft of more than just money
Amid alerts to an active ring in Southern California targeting cargo for theft through various "strategic" means, a well-known theft investigator laid out three double-brokering and/or ID-theft scenarios that increasingly result in physical load theft.
October 4, 2022
Overdrive Extra
While many support owner-op's HOS exemption request, opponents mount challenge
Lee Schmitt's request for relief from several parts of the HOS regs in June raised the old debate over the one-size-fits-all approach to the basic interstate rules. Schmitt's request has drawn support, and opposition, for a variety of reasons.
September 30, 2022
Overdrive Radio
The spot-market slide, and an owner-op return to leasing refuge
As rates on the spot markets for freight have fallen, ATBS is starting to see a shift for many owners who went out and got authority during the last couple of spot market boom years, a move back to leasing. Dig into revenue, cost, income performance here.
September 30, 2022
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