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$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
Overdrive Radio
âAutonomyâ for whom? The independent owner-operator and tech skeptic featured in new film
In this Overdrive Radio edition, count Debbie Desiderato among technology skeptics when it comes to the choice our society is likely to be presented eventually in some form â whether to fully accept high-speed vehicles on public roads without an operator capable of reason and judgment behind the wheel.
January 7, 2020
Voices
POLL: Have you taken steps to get ready for the drug/alcohol database (now live)?
Update: Whether youâre an independent/small fleet needing to designate your consortium/testing provider or a leased or company driver advised to double-check your information associated with the newly-live database of test results, have you done so as of today?
January 6, 2020
Overdrive Radio
Countdown through a parking shortage, tech surge, truck boot ⌠2019âs Top 10 podcast episodes
Listen: A year-in-review on the Overdrive Radio podcast this week, covering a boatload of ground all told: From trucking history to shutdowns and slow rolls, parking and booting, the ELD mandate and hours of service, small fleet business and the limits to quick growth, working the spot market and so much more âŚ
December 27, 2019
Voices
POLL: Whatâs your businessâ income outlook for 2020?
Do you expect income earned in 2020 to exceed your businessâ 2019 performance? The opposite? Weigh in with your prognosis via this poll.
December 26, 2019
Overdrive Radio
How to get more time for a malfunctioning ELD, training rule redux, more
Find in this weekâs podcast a reminder of just how to get that grace-period extension. Also: More on the Entry Level Training Rule and its likely delay with operator Scott Hainline, who was trained twice, in entirely different trucking eras, bookended by a career in law enforcement.
December 20, 2019
Overdrive Radio
The methodical tour, by âChoice,â from corporate America to a small flatbed fleet
Fredrick âChoice M.A.S.â Claxton caught the trucking bug following a two-wheeled cross-country tour on a Suzuki street bike. In this Overdrive Radio edition, he details his methodical approach building a young second career in flatbed after an office job with one of most recognizable names in apparel.
December 13, 2019
Channel 19
More Celadon fallout: Next steps for two operators
(UPDATED: 12/11/2019 with detail from former Celadon lease-partner TEL.) Whoâs more important in the trucking-business mix â the drivers or the customers? Given it seems drivers were among some of the last to know of the trucking companyâs impending closure, formerly Celadon-employed trucker Bo Wellsâ story suggests the question is well appropriate.
December 10, 2019
Overdrive Radio
With training rule delay in the offing, operator Scott Hainline compares own â70s, 2010s training
The Entry Level Driver Training Ruleâs delay by as much as two yearsâ time is set to be made official any day now. Along the way in this edition of Overdrive Radio, views on perhaps misplaced federal priorities â or dropped balls â when it comes to this particular delay.
December 6, 2019
Voices
POLL: Have you taken steps to get ready for the drug/alcohol clearinghouse going live in Jan.?
How far have you gotten with steps necessary to set up with the new drug and alcohol clearinghouse database, whether youâre a company driver, leased or an independent or small fleet owner with authority? Weigh in here.
December 4, 2019
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'Great news for spot rates'? Supreme Court rules against Trump emergency tariffs
The court's ruling sets up potential for a "flood of goods out of bonded warehouses and foreign trade zones into the 'consumption channel'" as soon as the next few days, according to one analyst. At once, the president claimed most tariffs would remain in one form or another. Details on the ruling here.
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