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COVID hours exemption not valid 'just because you're hauling food'
On Overdrive Radio, food for thought via the words of Captain Jon Olsen of the Minnesota State Patrol about qualifying for the COVID hours exemption, and: Episode 5 of the OTR podcast, about family-life sacrifices drivers -- and those back home -- endure.
February 12, 2021
Voices
How this owner-op found his calling
Lincoln, Neb.-based Robert Rosenbaum's well-considered story of learning to navigate his working world in trucking, after multiple careers, with a maximum of independence to "make me as good as I wanted to be, doing something I enjoyed" with pride.
February 9, 2021
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February 19, 2025
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Don't forget what they say about double negatives ...
One eagle-eyed owner-operator and grammar enthusiast offers an intriguing object lesson with these no-engine-brakes signs -- and: Still no devices on Canada's ELD registry with mandate deadline five months out.
February 8, 2021
Partners in Business
Big-ticket repairs, replacements, rebuilds: To depreciate or not to depreciate?
Equipment improvements present a variety of options as it relates to tax strategy around expensing and depreciation. Depending on your income situation, you could be well served by spreading deductions over years.
February 4, 2021
Voices
POLL: PPP round 2 -- are you going after funding?
Are you interested in the forgivable loans available to some businesses in the Paycheck Protection Program that reopened this year?
February 3, 2021
Overdrive Extra
How to navigate 'frost laws' in northern states
Gary Buchs on how to handle tiny jurisdictions' seasonal weight restrictions in more northern states. Do your research, don't trust your GPS and question everything -- before you end up in front of a judge.
February 2, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Even with fuel up and rates down, one owner-op's growth determination
Listen: Florida-based Kenyette Godhigh-Bell's journey to -- and future plans for -- her motor carrier authority, and a somewhat familiar dynamic in the marketplace for freight this winter.
January 29, 2021
Channel 19
ELD's 'no monthly fee' promotion highlights relative market void
There are just a handful of no-monthly-fee options for ELD rule-compliant e-logs left standing. The service priority for many truckers in the choice of platform is a big reason for that. Also: The cabovers come out at night!
January 28, 2021
Voices
From Biden DOT, owner-operators look for parking, highways, FLSA reforms
This trio of items adds to those familiar yet newly prominent in Overdrive's reader polling on priorities for a new DOT Secretary under Biden.
January 6, 2021
Channel 19
Meet the driver of Evel Knievel's former haul rig
This latest in Overdrive's 60th anniversary series takes a look at one intersection of the business magazine and U.S. popular culture with the 1973 story on one of the most famous people on the planet at the time, the daredevil and sometime truck driver.
January 25, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Truckers struggle with their lingering COVID symptoms
The health issues these truckers continue to experience are common for COVID patients, such as dry cough, fatigue and headaches.
January 21, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Regulated rates, wildcatting, deregulation: A brief history of U.S. trucking
A special tour through the rise of the owner-operator in exempt agricultural markets from the 1930s, to wildcatting later, deregulation later still -- and this cabover monument to one owner's heritage.
January 22, 2021
Channel 19
Highway hack: High value in a 'parts truck'
Long-term, having a spare 'parts truck' could save you both money and time hunting down replacement parts if you're like owner-op Zach Beadle, with a 1976 Peterbilt COE. His parts donor has saved him with these four jobs and more.
January 20, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Processing an insurrection, with the Colonel
Long Haul Paul on the U.S. Capitol riot, and the messy questions it raises ... "How much time do we devote to the fussy comradeships of peripheral people we encounter online? And how much time does that rob from those we care about the most? ..."
January 19, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Beware: Human smugglers luring truckers along the border
In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, Chief Matthew Hudak of the Laredo section of the U.S. Border Patrol emphasizes how professional drivers can help combat a sharp uptick in human smuggling/trafficking via tractor-trailers.
January 15, 2021
Overdrive Extra
Building personal payroll -- a step toward tax savings, better finances
More deliberate financial choices engendered by creating a personal payroll can act as subtle self-nudges that lead owners to managing money better overall, controlling discretionary personal spending and placing roadblocks in the way of unwise habits.
January 13, 2021
Channel 19
SBA auditing truckers' insurance in wake of pandemic disaster loans: Two owners' stories
If you're one of the untold number of owner-operators who took an SBA disaster loan in the spring of 2020, last month you may well have been contacted to verify insurance -- how two operators dealt with it (one smoothly, one not so much).
January 12, 2021
Overdrive Radio
Trucking with authority and other reasons ‘Why we drive’ — OTR rewind No. 2
In this Overdrive Radio podcast, an update on the last couple of years' push toward one featured trucker's new authority as an owner-operator, and much more.
January 7, 2021
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