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Bull hauler Mary Hooks was told ‘I couldn’t do it, and I was gonna prove ’em wrong’
Hooks and her 2014 389: “I learned a lot from a lot of people over the years. A lot. There’s people out there in Texas …, most of them gone today, [who] are credited for whom and what I’ve become today. Without them, I never would have made it.”
May 13, 2019
Business
Mike Landis: Managing sticky situations in food-grade liquid bulk
The independent fell into his current dedicated hauling for a tank fleet based near his hometown in Lititz, Pa., hauling reefer freight in a trailer he owned. A mutual associate recommended his Landis & Sons one-truck business years ago to the tank fleet. Now, “They almost dispatch me as if I was one of their trucks.”
May 10, 2019
Business
J.D. Howard: Short hauls and frequent home time with Midwest asphalt
Four years ago, owner-operator J.D. Howard joined Dan Ratta’s Marshallville, Ohio-based small liquid-asphalt-hauling operation, Ratta Trucking. At that time, he paid around $65,000 for a new 42-foot 7,500-gallon all-aluminum insulated 2015 Polar high-heat asphalt tanker.
May 7, 2019
Business
Dennis Holliday: A ‘smart’ move to hazmat chemical tanks
Dennis Holliday started trucking in the early 1980s in a GMC Astro cabover, hauling for North American Van Lines. Like most household movers, he was involved in a lot of the loading and unloading. He says he didn’t get into liquid-bulk tank hauling until he “got smart.”
May 6, 2019
Business
Think tank: A closer look at liquid bulk hauling
Owner-operators who consider pulling a tanker after other trucking niches often don’t look back after enjoying higher earnings, shorter waits and less physical demand.
May 3, 2019
Overdrive Radio
How-to: Custom walk-in storage at the front of a dry van; bulk tank niche explored
Daniel and Phyllis Snow detail their four-foot walk-in storage compartment they built into the front of their dry-van trailer, accessible from the tractor’s deck catwalk via a door assembly, to house tools and other supplies. Also in this edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast: liquid-bulk-tank insights from owner-ops Mike Landis, J.D. Howard.
April 26, 2019
Business
Livestock hauling: Caring for cargo
The same considerations behind the ELD exemptions also raise the standard for what it takes to operate successfully in livestock hauling.
April 19, 2019
Voices
POLL: How many different trailer types have you pulled through your career?
Have you been dedicated to a particular trailer type through your career or hauled in different niches throughout? Share you story via this poll.
April 19, 2019
Business
New hauling markets: Where recreational cannabis is legal
One result of the 2018 midterm elections was the addition of Michigan to the list of states that have created new markets for legal recreational cannabis — places where transportation opportunities are expected to grow around the product, shown in red on the map here.
April 17, 2019
Channel 19
How to outfit a cargo van for expediting driver comfort on the road
West Michigan Expedite small fleet owner Steve McNeal outlines a set of cargo-van-hauling basics he prefaces by noting there are many ways to upfit a cargo van. Here, he’s focused on ways to combat what is an essential issue for drivers of vans in expediting — comfort on any layover away from home.
April 16, 2019
Business
Delivering cannabis — and cash — in California
A look at the burgeoning cannabis and cash distribution businesses in California’s newly legal recreational cannabis market — via two operations with different areas of emphasis, both utilizing cargo vans for the work.
April 15, 2019
Business
Cargo van hauling: Operating with authority, and the ‘multicarrier’ model
With few owner-ops operating with authority in the expedited niche, around the time of the Great Recession many van drivers were desperate for any way to stay loaded. A multicarrier model arose in which van owner-operators essentially negotiate loads in leased arrangements with a multiplicity of expedited carriers.
April 10, 2019
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