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Channel 19
More O/O challenges: Image, health, parking…
After primary reporting on owner-operators’ top five challenges, sources offer their personal sixth — from parking, training standards and health to driver image and industry unity to influence public opinion and regulatory direction.
August 16, 2012
Parking premium
Business
Owner-operator challenges, No. 5: High equipment costs
Rates aren’t exactly keeping up with the level of cost increase for equipment, a trend owner-operators have felt hard in the last several years.
August 10, 2012
Peterbilt dealer sales department
Channel 19
Whence the great rates?
Supplementing reporting on the No. 4 top owner-operator challenge — freight rates — here find an update on the state of pay and further anecdotes, information and perspective from trusted sources.
August 9, 2012
Upward Trend
Channel 19
The forces at work on detention pay
Operators and industry reps weigh in on the problem of uncompensated detention time at shippers and receivers, and what is being and could be done about it. The problem was No. 3 in Overdrive‘s 2012 poll of top challenges for owner-operators.
August 6, 2012
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Business
Uncompensated detention: Owner-operator challenge No. 3
Following our quiz of readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators, here’s a closer look at challenge No. 3 of the top five, Uncompensated and excessive detention time, with partial solutions from owner-operators, fleet representatives and others.
August 6, 2012
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Channel 19
Hours, EOBRs: Adapt or fight?
Owner-operators’ No. 2 named challenge, the unsettled nature of the hours of service regulations and a potential electronic logs mandate, has moved some to embrace change, others to fight for fairness.
August 3, 2012
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Channel 19
O/O challenges: More solutions to high fuel
Outtakes from interviews conducted as part of research into Todd Dills’ “Owner-operators’ top challenges” feature in the August 2012 edition of Overdrive magazine.
August 1, 2012
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Business
Fuel prices top owner-operator challenges
Using a survey and our social media channels, we quizzed readers about what they saw as the No. 1 problem for owner-operators.
July 30, 2012
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Overdrive Extra
Major owner-operator carrier reports record income
That’s good news for independent contractors, considering Landstar is the nation’s largest owner-operator carrier.
July 27, 2012
Business
Fuel’s Gold
Owner-operators find big money and good schedules working the oil and gas services boom.
July 2, 2012
Kristin Stump says her typical day, if starting empty, begins with a run to a rail yard where sand is loaded into her pneumatic dry-bulk trailer. Driving small roads, typically, in West Virginia, she’s escorted to the well site, where sand is loaded into a storage bin. In a five-day work week, “I doubt if we do much more than 800 miles,” she says.
Channel 19
Driver for Landstar-leased fleet in Oprah magazine
Cleveland-based Shannon “Sputter” Smith (pictured, courtesy of Women in Trucking), a driver for a Landstar-leased small fleet, got into on-highway hauling as the youngest child of a father who worked on trucks for a living. As told by Jeanne Marie Laskas in Oprah magazine, her story is an inspiring one for any woman thinking of […]
June 11, 2012
Shannon Oprah Wit
Business
Managing stress while marooned without freight
Proactive stress management became necessary today as we spent another day without freight.
May 16, 2012
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