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Channel 19
Owner-ops' near miss with a train a wake-up call for regulators?
Veteran owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt were crossing an uneven, pockmarked, divided double rail crossing when the lights started flashing. Luckily, they're OK, but they offered this warning for others.
April 14, 2025
Divided rail crossing, problematic for oversize haulers
Overdrive Extra
Truckers, what road gets your vote for worst in the nation?
How about the best? With legislators set to take up a highway-funding reauthorization next year, the Overdrive Highway Report Card is back. Weigh in with your choices for road conditions (parking, too) to call out where improvement is needed most.
April 10, 2025
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'Stop Netradyning me!': Can an app and a camera make you a better driver?
While the Netradyne company's Driver-i application and in-cab road- and/or driver-facing cameras promise safety "gamification," Long Haul Paul, and some other operators, find well more than just a game.
April 9, 2025
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Equipment
POLL: Should Congress take FMCSA Truck Leasing Task Force's central recommendation?
What do you think? If you missed this poll question at the end of Overdrive's two-part feature on the history behind carrier lease-purchase programs and truckers' experiences, weigh in here on the task force's recommendation to abolish such programs.
April 8, 2025
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Most iconic Mack truck through history? We asked, you answered
A majority of readers chose one of three Mack models as their favorite amid the truck maker's 125th-anniversary celebration this year, with a new-model reveal set for April 8. A look, too, at a 100-year-old AB model to display in New York.
April 7, 2025
Top three Mack models throughout history, as named by Overdrive readers
Overdrive Radio
Freight signals encouraging (for now): ATBS' annual owner-operator income update
Rates fell in 2024, and revenues for the average owner-operator continued down, yet income was up, a sure sign that successful owners tightened the belt, increasing efficiency. Compare your performance against the averages here.
April 7, 2025
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Wisconsin Make-a-Wish truck convoy will ride again, this time in the Dells
After the last ride for the Waupun Truck-n-Show in 2024, trucker Wade Riffey got to thinking about what would happen to the long-associated Make-a-Wish benefit convoy. With a little help, the Badger State Truck'n Show is born.
April 3, 2025
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Overdrive Radio
Freight markets, fraud, predatory towing, pay-to-park: Small-biz trucking challenges
Setting the issues stage for MATS, this wide-ranging discussion on small-biz and other industry-wide challenges ended with a clarion call for Congress to finish what it's started and dedicate millions in funding to free truck parking.
April 1, 2025
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Channel 19
Arkansas police testing English skills at roadside? Social media says yes, but ...
Despite a popular post on social media, both Arkansas State Police and Arkansas Highway Police, the latter under the umbrella of the state DOT, denied any English language testing or arrests.
March 25, 2025
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Partners in Business
Overdrive's new Partners in Business playbook for a truck owner-op's career
The new PIB, coproduced with ATBS, builds on the decades-old trucking business-education program for owner-operators with a reorganization and reformatting with today's pro trucker in mind. It's now a browsable online content library accessible today.
March 24, 2025
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Channel 19
What truckers want DOGE to tackle
Overdrive asked and trucking's owner-operators answered. Between ELD/HOS issues, truck parking, temp/permanent status for foreign drivers, CDL training, DataQs, New Entrant audits and roadside inspections, what do you think most truckers prioritized?
March 20, 2025
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Trucker of the Year
Get ready: Join us at MATS to honor Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber
Owner-operator Kitzhaber will be at the Mid-America Trucking Show next week March 27-29, where Overdrive will present him with the scale-model replica of his 4-million-mile-plus 1995 Kenworth T600 on Friday the 28th, your chance to meet him.
March 19, 2025
Trucker Of The Year Model Build In Progress
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Tony Justice: Top billing at MATS, honoring a mother's legacy, prospects for new record
Dive into a conversation with Justice that touches on plans for the big show at MATS, his Large Cars & Guitars Truck Show event in East Tennessee in May (at a new location this year), and the legacy of Momma J, the late Sharon Justice.
March 17, 2025
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Partners in Business
Have freight markets turned? ATBS update set for March 25
Expect answers from our Partners in Business coproducer ATBS, just ahead of MATS, with the firm's semi-annual update charting owner-operator 2024 revenue, cost, and income benchmarks derived from tens of thousands of clients' real-world performance.
March 14, 2025
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Channel 19
Trucking attorneys: Broker transparency needed to fight fraud
When Convoy went bankrupt, dozens of carriers got stiffed on millions of dollars. A few prominent transportation lawyers argue that broker transparency could end that kind of abuse.
March 13, 2025
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Voices
Mack Trucks through the years: Which model's your favorite?
Mack Trucks is celebrating 125 years building iconic models from the very beginning of motorized truck equipment. This brief survey asks for your No. 1 among the many, likewise any recollections of Macks you've owned or driven.
March 13, 2025
Collage of Mack Trucks models from Overdrive's Reader Rigs gallery and other coverage over the years
Voices
Carrier lease-purchases: Let’s not just throw the baby out with the bathwater
NASTC President David Owen sees the FMCSA Truck Leasing Task Force's recommendation to abolish carrier lease-purchases as a "typical bureaucratic one-size-fits-all, throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater, knee-jerk reaction" to a complicated situation.
March 11, 2025
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Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Month leans into owner-operator pride and joy, biz brass tacks
Kenny Wingate, 55 years young today, takes pride in and cousel from his lifetime in trucking, though many of the men he learned from, and some of those he came up with in trucking, have passed on. His story in his own words, here, in Overdrive Radio.
March 10, 2025
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CSA's Data Trail
Toughest 10 states for brake violations as inspection blitz kicks off
Analysis of nationwide violation data shows the states where truckers might expect next week's brakes inspection event, CVSA's Brake Safety Week, to feature the most intense scrutiny on the truck and trailer's stopping power.
The heavy-haul/oversize trucking niche can be lucrative for owner-operators who know the ins and outs of the business. That doesn't come immediately, nor without significant challenges. Shown here is owner-operator Jason Chamberlain's 1985 Kenworth W900B, powered by a Big Cam Cummins with a 13-speed. He owns two trailers -- a 55-ton, three-axle XL Specialized RGN and a 2017 Benson three-axle, low-pro step deck.
Business
High-dollar freight means high cost consideration: Heavy and oversize hauling
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Custom Rigs
Harlan Martin and 'Barney,' the purple 2023 Pete 389 with custom air ride, more mods
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Regulations
DOT calls out 'despicable' state failures on ELP, CDL rules after deadly crash
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