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Eulogy for a friend: Ken 'Shoestring' Waugh, 1955-2021
With a new podcast in the 'Over the Road' series, Long Haul Paul remembers a friend lost, longtime trucker, storyteller, musician and more -- Ken "Shoestring" Waugh.
July 22, 2022
Ken Waugh
Custom Rigs
'Change order,' the 2000 Kenworth W900L daycab project rig of White Pine Paving
Bryant A. Mann's decade-long piece-by-piece project to finally finish this spectacular former coal hauler out of Maryland features expert custom-fab work put in, as well as detailed airbrushed designs along the hood and behind the cab.
July 21, 2022
Driver's side view of Bryant Mann's 2000 Kenworth W900L
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Has Biden's FMCSA sacrificed a measure of government goodwill on the speed-limiter altar?
The politics of outreach, of regulation, and the push and pull of trucking opinion -- for any one owner-op lauding government efforts at engagement, there's now a loud call from the other direction from many more given the speed-limiter mandate push.
July 21, 2022
Owner-operator William McKelvie with President Joe Biden
Overdrive Radio
Walcott show report: What can you learn from a truck-show recharge?
Our own Gary Buchs narrates Day One of the Walcott Truckers Jamboree, where generally upbeat owners delivered beautiful working rigs, plenty pride, and commitment to the culture of ownership. "In this country, I don't see us ever losing that drive."
July 15, 2022
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Say no to legalized theft: Rein in exorbitant nonconsensual tow fees
Colorado trucking association's Greg Fulton calls for an end to tow company abuse of "the privilege of being on a state’s safety rotation" -- trucking companies, he says, "should not be at the mercy of unscrupulous towing operators'" excessive fees.
July 15, 2022
semi-truck and tow truck on side of road
Hours of Service
2020's split-sleeper change: FMCSA's greatest hit?
A majority of drivers now enjoy increased productivity with hours-accounting flexibility after 2020's split-sleeper shift in the hours of service. But not everyone agrees, and not everyone thinks trucking and its regulators are headed down the right path.
July 14, 2022
owner operator in semi truck parking lot
Overdrive Extra
The slip-seaters of your nightmares, and how not to be one
Nothing will reveal to you the true depths of your character deficits like a small herd of goats and a bad fence -- or a slip-seating situation with an absolute slob. Long Haul Paul shares more than one path to maximum cab freshness.
July 11, 2022
baby goat in the driver's seat
Overdrive Radio
Two show-ready rigs -- and owners -- moving toward retirement in style
The diligence it requires to set yourself up to leave the road isn't exactly easily achievable, to say the least. Yet this well-matched pair of owner-ops have prepared better than many, set to ride out their last half-decade in two custom 389s.
July 8, 2022
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The young career -- and custom 2015 Peterbilt 389 -- of owner-op Tony Gonzalez
Gonzalez grew up around the business of his longtime owner-operator father, after whom he's named and from whom he purchased the rig, his first. Catch plenty of views via this video, likewise more from a man clearly loving his time OTR as an owner.
July 7, 2022
Tony Gonzalez's 2015 Peterbilt 389
Overdrive Extra
Forget speed limiters: Safe parking, highway infrastructure should be top priority
Clifford Petersen argues that lawmakers/regulators should set aside legislative and regulatory projects pushed by those with little to no familiarity with OTR realities, in favor of a push for real progress on parking, highway infrastructure needs.
July 6, 2022
Tanker and hay hauler on highway
Channel 19
AB 5 contractor law: California small fleets, owner-ops take stock
Opinions vary on whether California fleets' business-to-business relationships with longtime owner-operators in de facto exclusive partnerships can survive AB 5, yet it's not hard to find measures of confidence owner-op contracting models will survive.
July 4, 2022
Collage of show rigs from A&D Equipment, Antonio and Sons Trucking and Lil Ray's Transport
Overdrive Extra
Understanding costs/profit in relation to time for better load evaluations
Trying to select the loads based on the information showing on the load boards, or received from a broker on the phone, can play out with huge differences when it comes to bedrock costs/profit. Use these cost strategies for better self-dispatch results.
June 27, 2022
owner-operator talking on cell phone in truck's driver seat
Overdrive Extra
How to change your decision-making for successful self-dispatch
Are you moving to assume greater control of your load selection, negotiation, planning? This two-part feature, by longtime owner-operator and business coach Gary Buchs, looks closely at aspects of self-dispatching that can set you up for success.
June 27, 2022
Owner-operator in driver's seat look at load board on tablet
Custom Rigs
Love the smell of hay in the morning? Scenes from the A.J. Soza Memorial Truck Show
The show's second edition got under way at the fairgrounds in Merced, California. The Central Valley location stood in high relief at the early point in the day as these hay-hauling doubles you see rolled in, split by a livestock hauler.
June 24, 2022
California doubles hay hauler's rolling into a parking lot
Overdrive Radio
OTR to home: Making local trucking work with Mike 'The Boston Trucker' Gaffin, Terry Shelton
Gaffin, with a growing profile as a videographer, details his long history in, and huge love for, OTR trucking, running back to childhood with a trucking father, a Teamster turned OTR post-deregulation. Gaffin's run the reverse path back to local work.
June 24, 2022
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Custom Rigs
Wedding getaway vehicle and more: Jacob Phillips' 2016 389 steel hauler
The owner-operator's custom project rig proceeded with his father-in-law toward a maiden voyage as the chariot that took Phillips and his now wife away from their wedding party at its nadir. Phillips has been full-time hauling with the 2016 Pete since.
June 23, 2022
Jacob Phillips 2016 389
Channel 19
The fuel-discounts app aimed squarely at independents -- owner-ops and truck stops both
Mudflap launched as a mobile app just two and a half years ago, building a user base with owner-ops and small fleets on half a million downloads. Its cost-plus fuel discounts at independent truck stops, meanwhile, have delivered other benefits, too.
June 22, 2022
MACK truck with flatbed trailer passing in front of a sunoco gas station sign with regular gas price at $3.89 and diesel at $4.89
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'What do I do now to stay in business?' 5 tips toward reining in costs
W. Joel Baker answers the question in the title, one he's been getting increasingly from struggling small fleet owners. The answer? Part of it is to avoid the self-inflicted wounds common to trucking business owners who've grown too quickly.
June 20, 2022
Truck in traffic on the lower east side in NYC
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Owner-operator Raiko Graveran might be the 'nicest dude in all of trucking,' a version of which has been said by more than one truck showgoer who's found him and his 1995 Freightliner FLD 120 parked up. Here he's showing off fairly recent wins at the Old Town Rig Down event in Nacogdoches, Texas. Look for Graveran out at the Stars, Stripes and White Lines event this week in Atlanta.
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Red, white and 'Little Blue': The story of owner-operator Raiko Graveran
RGT Transport owner Graveran came to the United States in '08 on a raft from Cuba, ultimately able to gain legal permanent resident status with the immigration policy of the time. Today, he's the proud owner of a multi-award-winning custom '95 FLD flattop that cuts a unique picture on the show circuit.
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