Part of Overdrive’s mission is to help owner-operators prosper as they choose their own destiny. That idea, with a focus on action over complaining, has been preached by Kevin Rutherford at Overdrive’s Partners in Business seminars for years. He’s shared what he’s learned from early financial failure, running a small fleet, processing income taxes for owner-operators and hosting his trucking radio program.
These experiences helped him develop his Certified Master Contractor training sessions. Attending part of the recent five-day CMC Live event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, I heard plenty about taking personal responsibility:
Any owner-operator with an outlook that irresponsible gets gobbled up quickly in the trucking jungle. Still, it’s human nature to blame someone else – an unreasonable dispatcher, a greedy broker, a demanding spouse – for circumstances that foremost demand you to make tough changes.
Yes, owner-operators get more than their fair share of bad things beyond their control happening to them every day. How you respond is 100 percent under your control.
