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Sleeper berth: Should more truckers be able to split as they see fit?
Essentially, that's what team operators hauling for McKee foods have been able to do -- including 5/5- and 6/4-hour combinations -- since 2015, when granted an exemption. Weigh in with this update utilizing Overdrive's new poll module.
July 10, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Post-election optimism yields opportunity: A new start for your trucking business
A big shift in mood post-election -- with so many owners having hung on for months, even years for the chance to move forward with optimism -- delivers opportunity for a reset. Yet don't let knee-jerk reaction overtake the necessity of careful planning.
December 3, 2024
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March 24, 2025
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Trump II and the outlook for speed limiters, broker transparency, parking push
Can regulatory efforts -- whether generally favored (transparency) or not (speed limiters) -- survive a second Trump term? In this Overdrive Radio, OOIDA leaders Todd Spencer, Lewie Pugh offer perspective on that question and much more.
December 2, 2024
Overdrive Extra
We're thankful! And: Kick the tires of Overdrive's new 'Load Profit Analyzer'
A message of thanks to all the owner-operators in the audience. And: First look at a load profit comparison calculator we'd love for you to kick the tires on. Take a run through Overdrive's Load Profit Analyzer.
November 28, 2024
Channel 19
Trucker cited for being too festive: Police
A Volvo festooned in multi-colored Christmas lights got ticketed by Kansas Highway Patrol, and the post announcing the incident blew up into a heated conversation on just how festive drivers can be.
November 27, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Broker 'confessions' novel aims at seedy underbelly of digital freight culture
"Confessions of a Freight Broker" is authored by a former broker and here reviewed by Long Haul Paul, who notes it's time for a serious conversation about money, and how much of it in trucking is making its way to those behind the wheel.
November 27, 2024
Overdrive Extra
Time to put an owner-operator behind the wheel of FMCSA?
"I like a challenge," said owner-operator Lee Schmitt of his campaign to head FMCSA. Schmitt has been working the incoming Trump administration, and promises to bring experience, hard work to the agency.
November 26, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Owner-op Garrett Steenblik's 200-lb. weight loss journey
Steenblik found not only greater physical health but, ultimately, bedrock mental well-being. With his new Trucker's Body Shop business, he hopes to help deliver that to any fellow OTR hauler who needs it, who truly wants it for themselves.
November 25, 2024
Business
Uber Freight launched what sounds like a load board -- or is it 'double brokering'?
Digital freight broker Uber Freight opened up a new "Broker Access" avenue for other brokers to tap UF's carrier network. Is that "double brokering?" Some freight middlemen had a meltdown over it, but do carriers even care?
November 22, 2024
Voices
POLL: Your view of FMCSA's broker transparency proposal?
It's a 78-pager of a notice issued earlier this week, we know, but: If you've now had time to digest the details, do you think the changes, if implemented, stand to materially impact rates and/or brokered-freight market dynamics? Weigh in here.
November 22, 2024
Small Fleet Champ
Small Fleet Champs pay it forward: Hard-earned trucking knowledge
Today on Overdrive Radio, the annual roundtable with Overdrive's Small Fleet Champ finalists, featuring mistakes made and overcome, trucking business lessons learned, and a strong pay-it-forward focus for the next generation of ownership.
November 18, 2024
Voices
Fraud in supply chain not just a ābroker problemā
TIA President Chris Burroughs responds to news of FMCSA's Operation Protect Your Load broker-regs-enforcement initiative aimed in part at the fraud problem. "This fraud is not completely a 'broker problem,'" Burroughs notes.
November 14, 2024
Overdrive Extra
You donāt get any do-overs: A word of caution about expanding by leasing on owner-operators
"Once it goes wrong, just like it did for me, itās too late." The words of W. Joel Baker here offer a warning for one-truck owners against too-quick expansion without careful preparation and due diligence around operators you're contracting with.
November 13, 2024
Overdrive Radio
Veterans Day special: Coalition supporting vets in ag careers honored in Howes Hall of Fame
Farmer Veteran Coalition CEO Jeanette Lombardo's personal story of how, in the midst of the pandemic, she would come to be inspired by and, then, intimately involved in leading an organization with a worthy mission.
November 11, 2024
Channel 19
Will Trump tariff policies send freight rates skyrocketing?
President-elect Donald Trump has said he plans to shake up international trade with tariffs on imports, but will it impact trucking? Experts say one trucking niche could benefit in a big way.
November 7, 2024
Overdrive Extra
The 'death-defying adventures,' songwriting, rig-rock rise of The Franklin County Trucking Company
The bad boys of trucking music are back with their fourth studio album in seven years, āThe Death-Defying Adventures of The Franklin County Trucking Company.ā It's a doozy of a listen, and Long Haul Paul here details the record with the bandleaders.
November 6, 2024
Channel 19
Do truckers deserve blame for getting double brokered?
During a conference Q&A, a broker questioned the notion of "innocent" carriers getting double brokered. Isn't it equally both broker and carrier's fault for getting fooled? he asked. Truckers and motor carrier advocates gave him an earful in response.
November 5, 2024
Overdrive Radio
'Good day to be out trucking', with the steady hands of Zimmerman Ag
Overdrive's October Truckers of the Month, owners Daryl and Nelson Zimmerman, combine DIY maintenance prowess with a true love of the trucking business to serve agricultural-support businesses and farmers in and around Belgrade, Minn.
November 4, 2024
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DOT reveals the real reason it's pushing out 200,000 non-domiciled CDL drivers
The U.S. Department of Transportation said it doesn't need a study on safety outcomes to end non-domiciled CDL issuance, because foreign citizens can't prove their U.S. driving records. Here, find both DOT's and the non-domiciled CDL rule challengers' arguments in detail, before a court decides the fate of the rule.
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