Overdrive Online

MARCH 4, 2024

The CDL Drivers Unlimited group's new partnership with BMT is detailed in this Overdrive Radio edition. One owner-op discovered that, by paying just a little more in taxes, he could net about $7,000 on reduced premiums. More in the podcast.

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Groups 77

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

Another day, another year nearly in the books. Today, our annual podcast year-in-review, a big one for trucking as an owner-operator, with absolutely huge challenges. Run back through 2022 to spark a new idea or two, renew old goals.

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Overdrive Online

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This week's Overdrive Radio features longtime owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford's guide to solidify the business base to take advantage of opportunities at the markets' bottom, and to excel for long-term trucking at the top.

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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, compliance consultant Jeff Davis outlines red flags for truckers that just scream, 'Inspect me!', to roadside officers. Davis offers plenty you can do to avoid inspection, without bypassing the scales entirely.

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Compliance 68

Overdrive Online

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast counts down to 2022 with a run back through 17 of our most-listened-to episodes of the year, covering HOS/waivers, roadside trends, custom project rigs and restos, cooking in-cab, and so much more.

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Trends 40

Overdrive Online

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This week's Overdrive Radio episode features TA Petro service lead Homer Hogg's top five fault codes, and the actionable steps owner-operators and small fleets can take to guard against some of the most common issues seen in emissions.

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Operations 89

Overdrive Online

JANUARY 29, 2024

This Overdrive Radio edition features TCA's Dave Heller with insight on outreach on predatory towing to make change for the better. Likewise, our own Alex Lockie, delivering deeply practical advice from a new guide to tackling big invoices and more.

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MARCH 3, 2023

Cobra's Mark Karnes here tells the story of the petition that the company put to the FCC to allow the use of FM rather than just standard AM in CB Radios. With new dual-mode radios out now, Overdrive Radio samples differences in sound quality, clarity.

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Overdrive Online

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This Overdrive Radio roundtable, the first two of sets of talks featuring Trucker of the Year semi-finalists, focused on the year just passed -- the challenges faced, and just how the businesses chose to overcome.

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Overdrive Online

MARCH 25, 2024

The older he gets, Larry Limp notes in this Overdrive Radio edition, "I like that 10 hours off." Dive into LNL Trucking world headquarters here for a trip back to Limp's first work OTR, first truck bought (a White COE) and keys to long-term success.

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Trucking 66

Overdrive Online

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In this Overdrive Radio edition, find the firm's annual mid-year benchmarking analysis in full. The best of the best among owner-operator clients of ATBS have improved fuel mileage and maximized time efficiency as much as possible to hold the line.

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Overdrive Online

JUNE 12, 2023

"Strike when the market's cold" -- you could consider it a maxim for the outlook on small business for Overdrive May Trucker of the Month Matthew Karr, coming off an excellent profit year hauling fuel leased. Run through his history on Overdrive Radio.

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Operations 77

Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This bumpy, slippery run with an operator at one of Overdrive's 2022 Small Fleet Champs pulled the small fleet's bread and butter: Production water from oil and gas fields in Northern Louisiana. Ride along to unload in this Overdrive Radio edition

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Production Operations 86

Overdrive Online

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Overdrive's 2023 Small Fleet Champs and finalists are poised to make it through a rough freight economy with moves made in preparation for tough times. Gain insights via this edition of Overdrive Radio, a roundtable on building business for stability.

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Freight 76

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

Overdrive Radio's annual "toast" to the year that was. 2023's sure to go down in infamy among owner-ops, yet bright spots were evident: Sometimes, the chicken houses passed are closed, cost-control focus pays off, or you land that direct freight.

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Freight 65

Overdrive Online

MARCH 17, 2023

Landstar-leased heavy-specialized owner-operator Andy Freedman walks Overdrive Radio through his career and the long road to an inexpensive mobile shower solution fit even for 70-inch sleepers. Also: Passing the mic to Paul in Wyo.'s s "winter from hell."

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Operations 101

Overdrive Online

JULY 26, 2022

More than a little original music in this edition of Overdrive Radio, and a talk with the 2021 Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search winner through his recent recordings, a four-song set on the Red Eye Radio stage at MATS in March, and more.

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Operations Trucking 78

Overdrive Online

JUNE 19, 2023

This week's Overdrive Radio features our in-depth talk with Adam Wingfield and Jason Cowan on processes that can help owner-operators and small fleet owners find better balance long-term.

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Operations Trucking 80

Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, DAT's Jeff Hopper outlines what his company is attempting to put in place to more proactively police the load board's network, as others also scramble to boost security. Also: A broker it may be best to avoid.

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Networks Freight Security 73

Overdrive Online

JUNE 5, 2023

Last year, according to compliance consultant Jeff Davis in this edition of Overdrive Radio, FMCSA modified its safety rating methodology significantly. For the first time, auditors could include traffic-ticket convictions in a carrier's safety rating.

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Compliance 78

Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

How 'to work your day' in the words of FMCSA's Joe DeLorenzo, explored in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast -- a final review before new flexibilities come into play September 29, 2020.

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How To 144

Overdrive Online

APRIL 14, 2023

On Overdrive Radio: This husband/wife duo, March Trucker of the Month Pulli Express, excels in the art of juggling life and work on the road, running three trucks between them and an owner-operator leased. Four young children at home.

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Trucking Operations 78

Overdrive Online

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this Overdrive Radio edition, log hauler, writer, podcaster Gord Magill drew out more of Edison Motors cofounder Chace Barber’s story about his unique approach to electric-drive trucks, with some surprising benefits and potential applications.

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Trucking 80

Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hear CAP Trucking's success story, hauling from a home base in Florida, in this edition of Overdrive Radio -- in owner Chris Porricelli's own words. His is the voice of a man in clear control of his business after overcoming dramatic setbacks.

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Trucking Freight 91

Overdrive Online

MARCH 31, 2023

More on Overdrive Radio. FMCSA's MATS regulatory session didn't mention a plan to advance a rulemaking around its safety rating system for motor carriers across the size spectrum. Yet at another conference one month, the agency revealed the move.

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Conference 74

Overdrive Online

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In this edition of Overdrive Radio, DAT's Jeff Hopper outlines how his company is attempting to more proactively police the load board's network, as others also scramble to boost security. Also: A broker it may be best to avoid.

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Networks Freight Security 59

Overdrive Online

JANUARY 6, 2023

This episode of Overdrive Radio in part offers strategies for dealing. Asked in the final month of 2022 to assess prospects for business income in 2023, 6 in 10 owners saw either a downtick coming or more of the same as the challenging year of 2022.

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Trends Operations Strategy 83

Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

For Overdrive's 60th-anniversary series, a look back at the emphasis readers have placed on the citizen's band radio as a primary safety tool in dangerous driving conditions, right up to the present moment, and highway culture through history.

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Overdrive Online

APRIL 21, 2023

Yet "fuel savings go right to the bottom line," owner-operator Joel Morrow re-emphasizes in this Overdrive Radio edition walking through ways to get to 10 mpg, and beyond. For all the focus on rates and revenue, no improvement there is dollar for dollar.

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Trucking Operations 72

Overdrive Online

OCTOBER 8, 2020

More questions answered in this Overdrive Radio. The post Answering hours questions, as some ELDs falsely flag errors when new rule options used first appeared on Overdrive. More questions answered in this Overdrive Radio.

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Overdrive Online

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In this Overdrive Radio edition out on a dry-bulk haul with Kentucky-based John McCormick, the owner-operator lays out his own and his father's different histories in trucking. Their stories converged in recent years on this regular run.

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Freight Trucking Operations 74

Overdrive Online

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Drop back two weeks in time in today's edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast to the site of the Mayberry Truck Show in NC, where six owners and operators answered the question in the title. Times are tough, many acknowledged, but optimism showed through.

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Operations Trucking Optimization 82

Overdrive Online

JULY 27, 2021

This special edition of Overdrive Radio re-airs a talk with Jay Thompson, looking back on his family's history in trucking, all the way back to his grandfather Walter, 18 years old and trucking with a chauffer's license in 1917.

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Trucking 109

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DECEMBER 24, 2021

In this Overdrive Radio edition, owner-operator Daniel Koors walks us through his and several other truckers' efforts after springing into action in the wake of December 10 storms that devastated areas of Western Kentucky and other states.

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Distribution Operations 97

Overdrive Online

MARCH 10, 2023

Hear their story on Overdrive Radio here. The owner-operator dream team hauls leased to Southern Pride Trucking, the culmination of about a decade spent designing and executing their plan for a long-term home as business owners.

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Trucking Operations 89

Overdrive Online

JULY 23, 2021

In this Overdrive Radio podcast, varying answers to the question from four owner-operators in livestock, van, reefer and heavy haul. Better yet, distinct pictures emerge of different strategies to address insurance, maintenance cost, and so much more.

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Cost Reduction Strategy Trucking Operations 106

Overdrive Online

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

For this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, OOIDA President Todd Spencer and Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh forecast some answers. first appeared on Overdrive. For this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, OOIDA President Todd Spencer and Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh forecast some answers.

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