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Overdrive Radio

The ‘Amazon effect’ and opportunities for small fleets, owner-ops who can cash in

Part 1 of this edition of Overdrive Radio podcast delves into the opportunities and dilemmas small carriers, owner-operators, and brokers currently face.

May 25, 2018

Business

Team driving: Finding the right balance of driving hours, time apart

Federal hours of service regulations are the same for team drivers as solo drivers, though one team truck has two on-duty and driving clocks. Each driver has a 14-hour on-duty clock and an 11-hour driving clock, and each driver is required to take a 30-minute break during their shift.

March 20, 2018

Business

Team driving: E-commerce, ‘driver shortage’ pushing team pay to new heights

Owner-operator teams are in high demand by fleets, with carriers dangling major bonuses and appealing pay packages to draw in teams amid booming e-commerce and what carriers say is a critical driver shortage.

March 19, 2018

Business

We’ve Benatar over this, time and again

“Treat employees like they make a difference, and they will.” Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS Institute … Wendy: “Hey y’all, guess what? It’s not just trucking.” There’s a “nurse shortage” sort of like there’s a “driver shortage,” too …

January 22, 2018

Business

Don’t go toward the light, Carol Ann

“If it has taken 30 years of hemorrhaging drivers to snap into the realization the eternal well is drying up for real — the very fleets who have participated in the practice of paying their executives well while drivers are once again forgotten are about to feel a whiplash of epic proportions they are fully unprepared for.”

January 5, 2018

Business

Things to leave behind in 2017

The phrases “driver shortage,” “level playing field” and a variety of other trucking bugaboos. “Be happy we don’t all ‘get on the same level,’ and quit saying that. …”

December 27, 2017

Business

Thin the herd without churning the masses

“Driver shortage” explored, again: “There are finally a few brilliant folks out in “mainstream news” land who have begun peeling away skin on the “obvious onion” in trucking and started mentioning the fact that being paid has a lot to do with wanting to stick with a job.”

December 18, 2017

Channel 19

‘Amateur hour’: ATA prez takes a seeming swipe at anti-ELD mandate protests

And reader Glenn Gilbert offers an “Isaiah and the ELD” biblical take on it all, of a fashion … Meanwhile, Lucas Oil’s founder joins the Sikhs PAC leader in expressing official concern over the mandate, amid a slow drip of ELD delay cosponsors.

October 24, 2017

Business

Carriers rank driver shortage as chief concern, ahead of ELD mandate and hours regs

ATRI produces a Top 10 list of the trucking industry’s chief concerns each year, based on a survey of industry stakeholders. The availability of qualified drivers edged out the ELD mandate and hours of service regulations as the industry’s chief issue. More than half of respondents were fleet personnel.

October 24, 2017

Business

The double-billion burger they refuse to eat

“Pro-ELD propaganda does not address the true safety issue in the industry, and that is the sense that every driver is disposable. There’s always another. (Thin mint, sir? No thank you. Bring me a bucket.)”

October 6, 2017

Business

Eleventy-million and counting

Herein, a story about driv… I mean, apples. “And people wondered why other people, who weren’t buying near as many apples, were making pies and cider and delicious things from their apples, and didn’t have piles of stinking, rotting apples laying around their terminals … I mean, their kitchens.”…

September 20, 2017

Voices

An ELD rate boost? Maybe, but look out for the safety banana peel

“The real tragedy is the runaway economic and safety burden will fall on an unsuspecting public at a time when economic stress has been at an all-time high since the Great Depression.” –reader and truck owner Gary Carlisle

August 17, 2017