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Channel 19
Ice Pick Bandit rampage hits a Tennessee truck stop
At least eight more trucks got hit in Pleasant View, Tennessee, about 400 miles from the most-recent string of attacks in Georgia. This time, there was something different about the method of vandalism.
January 22, 2025
Trucker of the Year
Staying young, learning more: Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber
Trucker of the Year judges lauded owner-operator Kitzhaber’s meticulous approach to both maintenance and efficiency throughout the operation. "A smart businessman," said one, "really a monument to the craft of trucking as an owner-operator."
January 21, 2025
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August 15, 2025
Overdrive Extra
A plan for better business: Why do you want to be an owner-operator?
For Overdrive Trucker of the Year Alan Kitzhaber so many years ago, the answer was simple: To make more money. Before he made the jump, though, he prepared extensively. Here, his two-part story in hopes of guiding others starting out as business owners.
January 21, 2025
Channel 19
Ice Pick Bandit hits 1,000 or so tires in I-75 rampage
Truck drivers grapple with tire shortages, blowouts as the Ice Pick Bandit relentlessly attacks parked trucks in the dead of night up and down I-75. One souce said the vandal hit 1,000 tires in a week: "not an act of terrorism," he said, but close.
January 17, 2025
Regulations
Broker transparency: The final call for comments
Ahead of the formal comment period for FMCSA's broker transparency proposal closing Tuesday, January 21, this look at docket commentary revealed argument for and against the proposal.
January 17, 2025
Regulations
Broker transparency: 8 in 10 owner-operators predict positive impacts for rates
With FMCSA closing its comment period on increased broker transparency, a look at what hundreds of owner-operators really think about the transparency issue, from freight rates to carrier rights.
January 16, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Truckers' top 5 priorities for the incoming Trump administration
There's plenty owner-operators want rolled back by the incoming government -- FMCSA's speed-limiter mandate, aggressive EPA regs -- yet also clear acknowledgement of the role of government in parking infrastructure, broker transparency regs, and more.
January 15, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Hacked? How to contain the damage, or better avoid the hackers entirely
In this Overdrive Radio edition, a variety of ways to spot fraud in phishing emails and on fradulent rate cons, and in the very voice on the phone who might purport to be someone you know, or from a company you know.
January 13, 2025
Channel 19
Ice Pick Bandit strikes again in Macon and Pinehurst, Georgia, causes blowout on I-75
The infamous Ice Pick Bandit struck two truck stops off I-75 in Macon and Pinehurst, Georgia, on January 9, and one unlucky driver suffered a blowout as a result.
January 10, 2025
Overdrive Extra
Be wary of third-party trucking dispatch services
Necessary knowledge for independent owner-operators in today’s world includes knowing how not to put yourself in a position to be victimized by a bad actor. Using an unregulated, uninsured dispatch service could put you at that very kind of risk.
January 10, 2025
Overdrive Extra
First look: 100-inch custom ATG sleeper on Jay Hosty's '22 Western Star
Trucker of the Year Hosty's '22 Western Star 4900EX daycab is a daycab no more. That's right -- plans in this case come to full fruition, with the addition of the 100-inch custom Alliance Truck Group (ATG) rear-door sleeper. It's a beauty.
January 8, 2025
Voices
POLL: What's your trucking outlook for 2025 business?
Owner-operators, how do you expect your business' income to trend in 2025? Weigh in here and see where your trucking peers stand looking out into the mist ahead.
January 6, 2025
Overdrive Radio
Tour-haul 'special forces': Small fleet owner Josh Rickards builds the team
Specialized in concert-tour and other entertainment hauling, Rickards puts sharp focus on creating opportunity for the fleet's leased owner-operators through honesty and transparency in leasing agreements and business in general.
January 6, 2025
Overdrive Radio
4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Ring in 2025 with Overdrive Radio
A small fleet owner builds direct business after getting burned by a broker to a concert tour-haul run with country-rock legends, plenty in the way of biz advice borne of experience, and so much more: Overdrive Radio's 2024 in review.
December 31, 2024
Channel 19
Overdrive's top 10 trucking stories of 2024
The Ice Pick Bandit, broker transparency and other regs, middlemen acting crazy, marijuana laws changing, Trump taking back the White House. ... Which was the most important story in trucking in 2024?
December 31, 2024
Channel 19
Trucking inspection fails: 2024's worst of the worst
Many in trucking had a hard year in 2024, but you can be thankful at least that you didn't make this list of the worst equipment fails, drunkest drivers, and most shockingly clapped-out trucks of the year.
December 26, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Faces of the road: 19-year-old Jordan Foreman, on his past, present and future trucking
Long Haul Paul spoke to Foreman when he was but 18, still in high school, and already hauling grain in an Indiana farm operation. Foreman's advice for young men and women eyeing trucking careers: "Don’t get in a hurry, and learn from the old guys."
December 24, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Five decades of 'swinging the bat' for small business trucking: Joe Rajkovacz
From battles fought over decades as an owner-operator to full-time work with OOIDA and the last decade and a half at the Western States Trucking Association, Joe Rajkovacz's legacy as a voice for small business continues, even now in retirement.
December 23, 2024
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