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Business

One cargo van owner’s competitive edge in vehicle configuration

Years ago, West Michigan Expedite small fleet owner Steve McNeal began purchasing cutaway vans and designing a single-bed sleeper behind the cab. For the cargo area, he designed a lightweight aluminum-constructed box capable of accommodating up to six skids — double the pallet capacity of a stock van, if not the weight capacity.

April 9, 2019

Business

The lowdown on downsizing: Hauling in the cargo van owner-op niche

With its under-10,001-pounds regulatory category, cargo-van hauling might seem to hold the key to addressing some of the biggest complaints among Class 8 owner-operators. But its easy-in/easy-out rep isn’t always justified, and plenty challenges are shared between it and the Class 8 world.

April 8, 2019

Business

DOD begins transitioning management of the massive number of annual household goods moves to a single entity

The DOD is actively moving away from its system for doling out household goods loads to truck carriers and will eventually adopt a single-source model.

February 21, 2019

Business

Certain car haulers get reprieve from warning flag regs for overhanging loads

Certain car haulers are no longer required to place warning flags on overhanging loads of new cars. Learn more about the granted exemption from the FMCSA here.

February 14, 2019

Voices

POLL: What’s your current hauling niche of choice?

Owner-operators, which of the choices in this poll — from basic general dry van, reefer and flatbed to more specialized heavy-haul, cargo-van expediting, livestock hauling and hotshot trucking — best describes your hauling niche?

February 13, 2019

Overdrive Radio

Local/regional fuel hauling and the winter volume boost, cost tradeoffs and more

This week’s Overdrive Radio podcast features small fleet owner Dave Marti of Forrest, Ill., with six power units leased to Transport Services of Sullivan, Ill., hauling fuel in the region around his home base, and a newly built six-bay shop. Balancing the volume/cost tradeoffs is one of the many calculations the owner’s learned to make over his years in business.

February 1, 2019

Overdrive Extra

Call me ‘Long Haul’ no more

“I’m not sure when length-of-haul shaming with phallic undertones became a thing. … Still, since we’re on the topic, let me go on record here to say: To the nethers with the long haul. There are just too many good regional opportunities available now to make it hard to justify the fight with the ELD/parking shortage/erosion of road manners vortex.”

January 21, 2019

Custom Rigs

Heavy-haul 2004 W900L is four-axle ‘Movin’ On’ homage

Menominee, Mich.-based 13-truck Extreme Transportation Specialized LLC is the business of owner-operator Robbie Harris’ father, and the younger Harris leases this pristine workhorse 2004 W900L to the six-truck heavy-haul side of it. Harris advocates for greater federal encouragement of uniformity in oversize/-weight permitting among states. “”They’re all over the board on what you can and can’t do.”

November 13, 2018

Custom Rigs

A ‘Cherry Bomb’ goes off at GATS: Sharp 1999 W900L mobile-home toter updated

Take a closer look at this 1999 Kenworth W900L, "Cherry Bomb," one of the trucks from Delbert Jones Jr.'s small fleet, "Jones & Sons."

September 24, 2018

Overdrive Radio

Podcast: Expediter of the Year Tim Paxton on cargo van expediting and his business’ future

Recorded prior to Tim Paxton's award, Overdrive discusses challenges faced by him and others' small-vehicle trucking operations. Check it out on Overdrive.

July 27, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Faces of the Road: HHG hauler/American author Finn Murphy

Long Haul Paul Marhoefer’s detailing of how young Murphy “acquired a love for ‘low company and hard work’ while working at Dan’s Service Station in Cos Cob, Connecticut,” and more in a life and business hauling HHG, part of it chronicled in his “The Long Haul” book.

July 16, 2018

Business

Event hauling: Different responsibilities, schedules mean higher pay

Event hauling may come with more responsibility and tighter schedules but it also comes with perks: higher pay, fewer miles, and less wear and tear on trucks.

May 18, 2018