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Overdrive Radio
Trucking 'The Big Road' with new podcast, small fleet TMS
Today's podcast features former operator James Crowley's new audio effort, telling his story of initiation to the trucking business, and the brand-new, small-fleet-focused Lynks TMS, greasing the skids for owner-op back-office/on-highway tasks.
April 1, 2022
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Overdrive Extra
DataQs reform: A 10% violation error rate should not be acceptable
When a noticeable sidewall cut in a trailer tire was determined to have been marked as a violation in error, this small fleet owner did the math on his successful DataQs challenges over the past years. Here, his ideas on needed DataQs/CSA reform.
March 29, 2022
Tire with sidewall cut
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Meet the owners and drivers of the year -- a window on the Las Vegas awards banquet
For this edition of Overdrive Radio, sit back and take it all in as we run through the stories of six finalists, three each in owner-operator and company driver categories, from this week's awards show at Truckload 2022 in Las Vegas.
March 25, 2022
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Channel 19
On-highway experience yields insights for Convoy co-founder | More early from MATS
After co-founding the Convoy digital brokerage and serving as Chief Technology Officer, Grant Goodale shifted his role to better optimize carriers' experience of the platform. To get to MATS, he stitched together three hauls with three different carriers.
March 24, 2022
Convoy remote control truck
Overdrive Extra
Back to efficiency/safety basics with advanced driver assist systems
If you're driving with an advanced driver-assist system, notes longtime pro Jeff Clark in this op-ed on the partnership between safety and efficiency, try to maximize both for greater fuel mileage and more safety.
March 22, 2022
trucks on highway
Overdrive Extra
'Cancelation,' and the First Amendment's rope-a-dope with U.S. culture
Overdrive Extra contributor Clifford Petersen on the "cancel culture" phenomenon -- in his view a possible slippery slope down a dangerous road when it comes to the need for frank debate and discussion.
March 21, 2022
Kevin Rutherford with tweet from Ruben Gallego
Overdrive Radio
'Unpopular opinions' on the Entry Level Training regs newly in effect
Trucker Nation's Andrea Marks returns in this Overdrive Radio podcast to push and pull on reactions to trucking regulation, specifically recent voices of distaste for FMCSA's Entry Level training rules.
March 18, 2022
Pair Of Trucks On Highway Bridge
Overdrive Radio
A truckin' start: The OTR origin stories of owner-op award finalists
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, hear how three competing nominees got their start, including award finalist five-timer Glen Horack, Iowa-based owner-operator Gene Houchin, and West Virginia-based team Allen and Sandy Smith.
March 11, 2022
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Channel 19
Owner-operators report rates slipping against the rise in fuel
With diesel hitting all-time price highs this week, a majority of owners assessed fuel/maintenance cost inflation measured against revenue and noted the latter was starting to lag, despite efforts to combat dramatic cost pressures.
March 9, 2022
One of John Henderson's fuel hauler semi-trucks
Overdrive Extra
Faces of the Road: Log hauler and writer Gord Magill, student of the ice roads
The latest in Long Haul Paul's series of oral histories and profiles features Canadian-born hauler Gord Magill, who's run the ice roads, hauled logs in New Zealand and road trains in Australia, written on Canadian politics for Newsweek, and more.
March 8, 2022
Gord Magill next to truck on ice
Overdrive Extra
What I saw in Indianapolis of the 'People's Convoy'
Long Haul Paul visited the Indiana daylong stop of the "People's Convoy" as it made its way toward the D.C. area. Organizers noted the convoy will terminate in the D.C. area, not D.C. proper.
March 4, 2022
Banners featured on the back of owner-operator Ruben Carrion's well-known custom 2000 Peterbilt 379. The picture was taken at Ted Everett Farm Equipment, where the People's Convoy gathered for a day off from movement on Wednesday.
Overdrive Radio
Will the national emergency declaration's COVID hours of service waiver extend again?
With a protest convoy on its way to the D.C. area calling for withdrawal of the emergency declaration that underpins it, and the government signaling a return to a non-emergency footing, this Overdrive Radio details prospects for the COVID hours waiver.
March 3, 2022
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Business
POLL: How's your business faring in the daily battle against fuel, maintenance cost inflation?
Are you losing the battle or winning the war? Brokers starting to push back in negotiations? Shippers balking at ever-increasing fuel surcharges and contract renegotiation? Or is everything hunky dory ... Weigh in here.
March 1, 2022
Ovd fuel
Channel 19
Flatbed securement accountability, mentoring, training in practice
Longtime independent and Gary's Fleet Service hotshot flatbed/step deck dispatcher Gary McGaha feels his securement practice, an easy strategy to implement, might be "a perfect job for very experienced drivers" sidelined by medical or retired.
March 1, 2022
class 8 step deck haulers
Channel 19
What Kevin Rutherford's Sirius XM show's cancelation might teach us about the outrage machine
Tit-for-tat over loose-talk social media commentary from a politician, prompted by media amplification of similar loose talk, ends longtime owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford's long run on Sirius XM.
February 28, 2022
Kevin Rutherford
Channel 19
On-highway fitness coaching program for quick weight loss, or your money back
The relatively new TruckFit program of the Trucking Fitness Company helps operators build custom-designed programs toward individual diet/fitness goals. Its founder and haulers who've used it emphasize efficacy through small steps.
February 25, 2022
Truck Fit Split Squats
Overdrive Extra
Truck operators are frustrated, and for good reason
Greg Fulton of Colorado's state trucking association offered these views on the difficulties operators face across trucking. "We call them essential workers. It’s about time we start treating them accordingly" by improving parking, regs, roads and more.
February 24, 2022
truck and cars on highway
Overdrive Extra
No matter what Punxsutawney Phil said, winter is almost over
If you're one among the untold number of us dealing with SAD, or 'Seasonal Affective Disorder,' writes Overdrive Extra contributor Clifford Petersen, there's plenty you can do to combat depression -- and you don't have to wait for spring to start.
February 21, 2022
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Channel 19
Road Mode: The real cost of trucking done 'seriously' on home life, relationships
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Custom Rigs
Ohio-based steel coil hauler's 'Bad Influence' 2013 Pete 389
Truckers Paradise officially opened in Gainesville, Texas, on June 26, offering numerous amenities to truck drivers, including mobile fueling and a mobile truck wash, restaurants, lounges and much more. The truck stop is located at 4321 N Interstate 35, Gainesville, TX 76240.
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