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How Trucker of the Year contenders beat 2024's sluggish conditions
This second installment wrapping up 2024's competitive TOTY field shows owners poised for growth in the new year, in plenty more ways than one. Check in with Alec Costerus, Greg Labosky, Mike Nichols and the brothers of Zimmerman Ag.
December 16, 2024
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Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 TOTY 'exit interviews'
Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year contenders have battled soft freight and sluggish rates with moves large and small. Here, four contenders map out their experience through the year, delivering insight on business decision-making.
December 9, 2024
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November 18, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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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The 'driver shortage' is dead? And: Inside the broker-carrier scrum at last week's summit
Today on the podcast, a conversation about National Academies' recent compensation study with OOIDA President Todd Spencer, casting doubt on persistent "driver shortage" narratives. Also: A firsthand report from last week's Broker-Carrier Sumit.
October 28, 2024
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The $2 million Peterbilt 389 with a special mission
In this week's Overdrive Radio, the expert singing voice of Marine vet and singer-songwriter Sal Gonzalez warms up and brings to fruition Rush Truck Centers' special celebration benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, others with last 389 sweepstakes.
October 21, 2024
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Rene Holguin, September Trucker of the Month, cementing a legacy with authority
Overdrive's September Trucker of the Month achieves a significant pay-it-forward goal after getting into business with the tutelage of a family member. In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, dive into Holguin's two-decade-plus history trucking.
October 14, 2024
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Partners in Business
ATBS' owner-operator performance update: Inside the numbers, full presentation
A measure of cost/income stability showed in ATBS' update, but what about rates? ATBS VP Mike Hosted's full presentation offers plenty insights, likewise on maintenance spend, fuel costs and efficiency, and much more. Track through it all here.
October 7, 2024
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When will freight markets turn to the positive for truckers?
Among questions flagged for panelists by attendees of Overdrive's recent online roundtable was just whether, and when, the long freight-rates slide of the last two years might turn the corner. Part 2 of that roundtable offers some guesses here.
September 30, 2024
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Trucking in the freight trough: The 'sweetness of low price' v. the 'sour of bad service'
For shipper/broker customers, the sweet is quite tempting to take but the sour lasts a whole lot longer. In this Overdrive Radio edition, find several ideas for building defenses against both for the bottom of the freight-rates trough.
September 23, 2024
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No more detention half measures: Time is now to charge for it, and collect
Trucking's detention landscape abounds with missed opportunities to truly make shippers and receivers feel the burden of their inefficiencies with detention fees. The new ATRI report on detention costs makes that abundantly clear.
September 16, 2024
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Trucker of the Year
Investment diligence: Owner-op's profitable path to retirement
Nearing the end of a nearly 35-year run of consistently putting aside 15%-20% of his income, owner-operator Alan Kitzhaber's gotten close to where he truly wants to go -- that’s retirement, following 4 million miles in his long-running 1995 T600.
September 9, 2024
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Trucker of the Year
Trucker of the Month Alan Kitzhaber: 4 million miles, ever greater efficiency for his '95 T600
With all those safe miles in the rear view in just a single truck, the owner joins a pretty exclusive club. How'd he do it? This week's Overdrive Radio talk reveals a keen focus on preventive maintenance, and increasing efficiency.
July 15, 2024
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Brake blitz week re-air: Inspections should be 'preventive,' not 'punitive'
Owner-operator Warren McCurdy made clear his bone to pick with the federal CSA scoring program and all its ripple effects throughout trucking and roadside inspection systems. This Overdrive Radio originally aired in February. Listen back here.
August 26, 2024
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Owner-ops react to market challenges: Lightning round from Waupun
From what could be the final Waupun Truck-N-Show, held last weekend in Wisconsin, five owners detailed their pivots, or lack thereof, in response to the long-ongoing market slump, for this edition of Overdrive Radio.
August 19, 2024
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Nearing the conclusion of Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year award program, judges laud 10 Truckers of the Month and name three finalists for the ultimate win, to be announced in the new year.
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