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Share the road: Whatâs the engine brakeâs purpose, and how do you use it?
Overdrive is starting a series of questions about truck equipment and the first is all about engine brakes. Call us today and learn more here on Overdrive.
March 2, 2020
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Listen: The Channel One-Nine Special from âOver the Roadâ â CB handles
The Channel One Nine Special is a special series for Over the Road podcast listeners. This week we discuss CB handles with Mike "Mustang" Crawford.
February 27, 2020
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March 24, 2025
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In defense of truckers? FMCSA interim boss Jim Mullen says heâs committed to hours of service reforms
FMCSA Acting Administrator Jim Mullen notes the hours of service regulations need modification to benefit truck drivers. More information here on Overdrive.
February 25, 2020
Voices
POLL: Have you ever been a heavy/overdimensional hauler?
Early in 2019, almost 7 percent of Overdrive readers reported being currently involved overweight / overdimensional hauling. This question looks at the extent to which the niche has attracted your interest, or active involvement, over the years with âhigh, wide and uglyâ freight, as they say.
February 19, 2020
Channel 19
<$1/mile freight? Câmon, brokers, really?
For too many brokers fishing for sub-$1/mile rates, itâs like âtossing a peanut shell into the cage of a starving patriot,â says independent reader Jeffery Hanson. âThe starving man will eat it. But he does not realize he is almost dead, just that he is hungry.â For brokers doing this: it wonât be long before âit comes for them, too.â
February 14, 2020
Overdrive Radio
For the love of ⌠Patty the traveling road dog, with owner-op Rob Goodwin, and introducing âOver the Roadâ
This week on Overdrive Radio, reefer truck driver Rob Goodwin discusses life on the road with his bulldog Patty, the Traveling Road Dog. Details on Overdrive.
February 12, 2020
Voices
POLL: Do you cook in the truck?
Anybody ever tell you food never tasted so good until you made it yourself? With anecdotal reports of more operators putting culinary skills to work in in-cab kitchens, which of these choices bet describes how often youâre the chef on your rig?
February 11, 2020
Voices
Sharing the burden of a new-truck payment
Owner-operators Montgomery Morgan and Joe Huggins talk about the legacy of Don Morgan's 1992 Kenworth T600 and sharing the burden of a new truck payment.
February 6, 2020
Voices
POLL: Whatâs been your view of the impeachment, now that an end appears in sight?
With the impeachment of President Donald Trump nearing and end and with the Senate expected to vote to acquit, which of these choices best summarizes your view of the entire nearly two-week process.
February 4, 2020
Overdrive Radio
$50 and a little install work could save your life: Trucker Scott Carlsonâs close call
Carlson has been trucking with Regal Services 17 years and keeps a carbon monoxide detector in his truck. Find out why in this Overdrive Radio podcast.
January 31, 2020
Voices
POLL: What sources do you use to check an unfamiliar brokerâs credit?
When youâre weighing the decision to do business with a broker you may be unfamiliar with, what sources for creditworthiness information do you most often use, whether a partner factoring company or load board source of information or a full-blown credit report? (Or nothing or no need at allâŚ)
January 27, 2020
Overdrive Radio
How former heavy-haul owner-op and current fuel hauler Lonnie Laurie became the sometime âone-armed banditâ
Listen as Lonnie Laurie, sometimes dubbed the 'one-armed bandit,' recalls life as a heavy-haul owner-operator and more in this week's Overdrive Radio podcast.
January 24, 2020
Voices
POLL: How do you view the âABC testâ for the independent contractor classification?
On the heels of a San Diego-based federal district judge extending a stay of enforcement of Californiaâs A.B. 5 law, which codified an âABC testâ for the independent contractor classification across industries, whatâs your view of such a testâs application to trucking and leased owner-op arrangements?
January 22, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Truckers together in pursuit of victory over child abuse with ATTACA
The notion in the headline here is, at least, the goal of Western Flyer Express founder Rodney Timms, based in Oklahoma and also the founder of the All Truckers Together Against Child Abuse (ATTACA) org. In this weekâs edition of Overdrive Radio, find Timmsâ impassioned plea to the trucking community to join him.
January 15, 2020
Voices
Custom alternative in-cab climate control system has heat, too
Latest in the âhighway hacksâ series: Owner-operator Mike Greenbergâs answer to auxiliary in-cab climate control â employment of a wall-mount split HVAC unit most often used in buildings.
January 14, 2020
Voices
POLL: Whatâs your credit score?
Have you checked your credit score recently? If so or if not, youâre probably well aware itâs a prime component in any truck purchase or lease, not to mention borrowing of all stripes. Share yours to compare to your peersâ in this poll.
January 13, 2020
Channel 19
2020 income outlook: Owner-operators trend optimistic for the year ahead
Believe it or not, as it were â there were, however, a variety of shrugs and SMHs to the annual question on business income outlook for the new year this time around social media. Polling results, however, showed much more of an âitâs got to be better than last yearâ dynamic than results this time in 2019.
January 9, 2020
Voices
POLL: Whatâs been your recourse action when a broker doesnât pay?
Whether taking it up with the shipper/receiver responsible on the loading, filing against the brokerâs bond, reporting to DOT or other law enforcement agency for potential fraud, or filing a lawsuit: What have you done in the past when a nonpayment issue arises?
January 9, 2020
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