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Channel 19
2019 outlook: More owner-ops cautiously optimistic than not
What’s ahead for your business in 2019? If you’re like about a third of owner-operators responding to recent Overdrive polling, expectations of good things to come abound. This year, though, most movement from last year’s polling is toward a measure of stability expected.
January 4, 2019
Voices
3 in 4 readers approve of government shutdown over wall funding
Readers feel strongly that the stalemate between a divided Congress and the President over immigration issues is one worth holding out to resolve, no matter how long the federal government will have to undergo its partial shutdown.
January 3, 2019
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March 24, 2025
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2018 ‘coulda planned better’: Counting down the top 10 Overdrive Radio podcasts of the year
Take a review run back through some of those most memorable moments from the top 10 most-listened-to episodes of the year, from details of owner-op Mark Kirbyson’s skepticism of any wisdom present in the oft-repeated “shoulda planned better” to more than two podcasts dedicated to recognizing the many best-avoided games brokers play in contracts … and much more besides.
December 31, 2018
Voices
POLL: Your business outlook for 2019?
Surveying where you are today and potential for the year ahead, how do you see your business trending in 2019? Better than the past year? Worse? Weigh in via our annual trends poll here.
December 31, 2018
Voices
Partial government shutdown: Is the President/House’s $5 billion border-wall demand worth the shutdown result?
With the technical fifth day of a partial federal government shutdown under way (not the bulk of the DOT, which remains open through budgetary-led shutdowns typically), led by a demand for $5 billion in border wall funding, what’s your view: Is such funding demand worth the cost?
December 26, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Weighing ECM retune options, or full-on emissions defeats, with enforcement risk
In this edition of Overdrive Radio, I went in-depth my colleague James Jaillet about his reporting on the EPA’s increasing willingness to wield the enforcement sword around heavy-duty emissions modifications, and what owner-operators should weigh when thinking about ECM retunes. Also: owner-op Dean DeSantis on improving OEM emisisons tech.
December 14, 2018
Voices
POLL: Have you utilized a device for or worked with a shop on an ECM retune or emissions delete?
What’s been your experience of ECM-retuning devices or emissions defeats in the recent past, if any?
December 13, 2018
Channel 19
Hours of service proposal could come by end of March
Signs point to a decision on whether to move forward with hours change from FMCSA sooner than later — by Spring, regulators said during a call with owner-operators put together by Scott Reed and Scott Jordan of the Independent Carrier Group covering hours, the ELD mandate and exemptions, training and enforcement topics.
December 6, 2018
Voices
More ‘Music to truck by’: Truckers Ken Freeman, Taylor Barker live
In addition to this year’s Trucker Talent Search contestants and other singer-songwriters, truckers Taylor Barker and Ken Freeman were conspicuous at GATS this past year with performances, including video excerpts of two here, on the stage at the truck parking area and at the Red Eye Radio stage and various exhibitor booths.
December 5, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Beware what you sign with brokers: Freight-payment offsetting of cargo claims a ‘sucker’s game’
Ever had a broker give you load after load following a cargo claim, then never pay you for any of them? Such can be the case when “right to offset” clauses are included in a brokerage contract. Issues discussed in this Overdrive Radio edition with transportation attorney Hank Seaton, with an outline also of ways to revamp the safety-rating system for small-fleet/owner-op benefit.
December 3, 2018
Voices
Truck thief! Caught on dual-view dashcam
After installing dual-view cameras in their trucks, reps of the Madison, Ala., location of the Danella construction company were greeted early one morning with what was clearly a break-in at the yard — the thief, soon caught, was recorded in these videos driving away, among other footage, a gold mine for police.
November 30, 2018
Voices
POLL: Have you carried health insurance this year?
With the sixth-annual Affordable Care Act open enrollment period coming to a close Dec. 15 for the federal health-insurance exchange — extended for some state exchanges — what best describes your own health-insurance situation over the last year?
November 28, 2018
Voices
Political gerrymandering: Should it be legal for parties to redraw districts to favor their candidates?
It’s a truism in electoral politics in the U.S. — whichever party controls state government when electoral districts are redrawn (generally every 10 years) holds the advantage for the next 10. Should outright political gerrymandering of districts be legal? Or is it all more complicated than that?…. Weigh in here.
November 27, 2018
Voices
Pride and professionalism: ‘The difference between a career and a job’
Reader Scott Hainline writes in response to Clifford Petersen’s discourse on the pride and professionalism inherent in, among other things, on-highway courtesies once common among truckers. Hainline argues truckers should do better to pass down traditional professionalism to the incoming generations.
November 26, 2018
Channel 19
Nearly half of independents using ELDs give no thanks for device providers
Almost half of independent owner-operator respondents who’ve put on an e-log reported a “no-satisfaction” level with their ELD provider — add those who were only “somewhat or a little satisfied,” and you can account for more than 6 in 10 responding independents using an ELD today.
November 21, 2018
Overdrive Radio
Truckers helping foster 12-year-old Robbie Welsh’ creative journey
In this edition Overdrive Radio, St. Louis mother Sarah Welsh details how the trucking community, particularly a variety of owner-operators among it, has helped foster her 12-year-old son Robbie’s passion for so many things trucking — and particularly: “meeting drivers to talk about their trucks,” Sarah says. A kindred spirit, as it were. More…
November 19, 2018
Channel 19
Better ‘pay would solve most’ critical issues: Readers’ priorities show variation from, similarity to recent rankings
While “the economy” does figure as a critical issue year-in year-out in the annual ATRI “critical issues” rankings, issues of adequate driver compensation — and rates for independent truckers — don’t command the same direct attention. All the same, as one reader noted, better “pay would solve most” problems.
November 16, 2018
Voices
‘About time’: Readers respond to new CVSA directive not to wake off-duty drivers to inspect
Responses to CVSA’s new policy directive to inspectors not to wake off-duty truckers for the purposes of conducting a random inspection ranged from exasperated positivity — “About time” ran the two-word response of multiple readers at Overdrive’s Facebook page — to I-hope-they-get-the-memo identifications of specific problem jurisdictions.
November 14, 2018
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