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Small fleets in the catbird seat for growth: For-hire carrier size over the pandemic period
Could Biden's vax mandate enhance the competitive edge for small fleets? If the pandemic's past suggests anything about the near future, fleets of under 100 trucks have added roughly 176K units by this analysis, while larger businesses added just 25K.
September 30, 2021
Overdrive Radio
The big reveal: Prize interior renovation | More on COVID hours waiver
Owner-operator Debbie Desiderato on bottom-line business impacts likely from her TransFix My Rig sweepstakes win, after custom work by Jason Cameron. Also: FMCSA's input on COVID hours of service waiver's reporting requirement, more.
September 24, 2021
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Refresher on IFTA accounting for truck owner-operators, and effective fuel strategy
Gary Buchs charts the case of a client operator taken by surprise with his first quarterly IFTA report. Discussion yields an effective strategy -- to plan your fuel purchases based on the price you will pay for the fuel only, minus state taxes.
September 21, 2021
Channel 19
Scenes from first-annual SHE Trucking Expo in Tennessee
The first in-person convention of SHE Trucking drew hundreds to Chattanooga for a wide array of talks and workshops, an impressively diverse exhibit floor, plenty of fellowship and networking, and much more.
September 20, 2021
Overdrive Radio
How the COVID hours waiver could disentangle HOS rigidity
Strong views from Andrea Marks of the Trucker Nation advocacy group on the opportunities embedded within the long extensions of FMCSA's COVID-emergency-related waivers – and the dangers lurking in the latest changes as of September 1.
September 17, 2021
Regulations
POLL: How often, if at all, have you used the COVID-emergency hours of service waiver?
Have you used the waiver often over the past year and more? A little? Not at all? Weigh in via the poll here or drop a comment at the bottom of the post.
September 15, 2021
Overdrive Extra
He died on the road -- Remembering owner-op Mylo Heimbuch
Long Haul Paul remembers a close owner-operator friend, Mylo Heimbuch, with Mylo's wife, Tammy. Mylo passed away last week after a fight with COVID's Delta variant in Georgia on the road from his Michigan home.
September 14, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Senator Bernie Sanders sends a message to trucking
It's clear now that if Senator Bernie Sanders and the progressive Democrats he works with in Washington have their way on climate change, big changes could come to the trucking business sooner than later.
September 13, 2021
Channel 19
Looking back on 9/11's lasting trucking legacy
This retrospective on trucking history post-9/11 comes on the occasion of the 20th anniversary. While impacts of that event are impossible to exhaustively chronicle, Overdrive found shifts in security protocols, driver camaraderie, freight, and more.
September 13, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Driving through depression's dark valleys
Learning cognitive techniques "taught me how to battle my demons, how to stay clean, and how to finally find the peace I sought." --Trucker Clifford Petersen on battling depression's demons. Here find tips you may need if fighting the same fight.
September 10, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Don't over-insure your trucking business
It could cost you thousands annually. Here, independent owner-op and insurance agent W. Joel Baker offers a rundown of the top 3 types of commercial auto coverages he sees owner-operators and small fleets paying for that they don't need.
September 7, 2021
Channel 19
Docmenting the 'Faces of the Road' with Long Haul Paul
Any retrospective on Overdrive's recent history would be incomplete without Paul Marhoefer's contributions to the magazine's multi-author "Overdrive Extra" blog with his "Faces of the Road" series of dynamic close-ups, delivering living history.
September 6, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Trucker Talent Search podcast preview
On Overdrive Radio, we'll hear from trucker Mike Sheffield of Kentucky, Michigan-based Grassmid driver Rich Scripps, and Dayton, Ohio's Guy Archer, all in conversation, too, with the great Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio. Take a listen here.
September 3, 2021
Channel 19
A newly reconditioned 'Duel' 1960 Peterbilt 351 makes debut next week
Check out the work put into Brad Wike's 1960 Pete 351 and tanker used in the 1971 'Duel' film at the Southern Classic Truck Show next week. Also: The men and women of Truckers Feeding the Homeless are conducting outreach/support in Houston October 1-3.
September 1, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Five owners, five forecasts for biz growth
At last month's SuperRigs event, News Editor Matt Cole asked these five owners – from OTR heavy haul to local-regional fuel delivery – to forecast the next five years. Growth is coming and prospects are bright for small trucking, despite headwinds.
August 27, 2021
Overdrive Extra
What would happen if employers forced truckers to get vaccinated?
President Joe Biden, the National Safety Council, and other top authorities are all pressuring employers to mandate or incentivize vaccinations. But do they really tell owners and drivers what to do?
August 25, 2021
Channel 19
Out-of-service brake adjustment: More detail on how violations work at roadside
A bit of a clarification of the 20% rule following last week's podcast report, and: owner-operator Howard Salmon, after nearly two years away from the road during his son's cancer battle, jumps back on the horse with new perspective. ...
August 25, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Will the first COVID vaccine approval improve uptake among drivers?
COVID vaccine uptake among owner-operators may well rise with this week's full FDA approval for one, according to results of Overdrive polling, yet Long Haul Paul finds skepticism running deep through several conversations with readers.
August 24, 2021
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