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Overdrive Radio

The Overdrive Radio podcast is produced by Overdrive magazine, the Voice of the American Trucker for 60-plus years. Host Todd Dills -- with a supporting cast among Overdrive editors, contributors and others -- presents owner-operator business leading lights, interviews with extraordinary independent truckers and small fleet owners, and plenty in the way of trucking business and regulatory news and views. Access an archive of all episodes of Overdrive Radio going back more than a decade via this

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00:17:51

Tim Paxton, the 2018 owner-operator Expediter of the...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/07/27

Cargo van owner-operator Tim Paxton, leased to Arkansas-based Barrett Directline, is the 2018 Expediter of the Year, and in this edition of Overdrive Radio, recorded prior to the announcement of his award July 21 at Expedite Expo, Paxton lays out a variety challenges faced by his and others' small-vehicle trucking operations. He's got an eye on the successes, too, though, from a healthy income for his family to a growing community he's helped spearhead via Youtube channel and, more recently, the

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00:16:26

The demise of One20 Trucking, and its owner-op's...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/07/19

As of press time, more than a month after the One20 company ceased operations entirely, and nearly three months after the owner of an affiliated business, the single-truck One20 Trucking, resigned his position as head of One20 Inc., owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt, contracted to One20 Trucking, were still owed money for loads booked and hauled for the company, they say. The former One20 Trucking owner, Christian Schenk, says he's working on settling their accounts soon. In telling their story,

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00:33:04

Owner-operator Jon Hose and a malfunction junction...

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2018/07/12

Hose was put out of service with a false-log violation in Missouri early in June, as his One20 ELD was giving him problems en route a couple weeks prior to the company stopping support for the device on June 18. For Hose, his run with that particular ELD is one marred by inexplicable automatic duty-status changes and other malfunctions he can’t explain to this day, His story is one of difficulty, generally, as a direct result of selection of an ELD provider. This talk with him reveals how inspectors

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00:29:44

Another way to do reefer washouts: Produce broker Pam...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/06/29

Pam Young's thoughts on produce rates post-ELD mandate and how the Food Safety Modernization Act's new sanitary transportation requirements led her to develop a new automated reefer washout effort lead this podcast discussion with the produce broker, following up on parts of the discussion in last week's Overdrive Radio edition.

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00:31:27

Old-school ways in new-school days: Freight...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/06/22

A brief run through the mailbag with disheartened haulers affected by the shuttering of the One20 F-ELD just a couple months beyond the April 1 out-of-service enforcement date for the ELD mandate. And a more extensive talk with produce broker Pam Young, well-learned in old-school ways, preferring the personal touch to digital standoffishness when it comes to building relationships with carriers. Among subjects of discussion: Adjustment (or lack thereof) to mandated ELDs, honesty in transactions,

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00:25:15

Australian trucking troubadour 'Calamity' Jayne...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/06/15

Ahead of her Rotella SuperRigs performance in Raphine, Va., June 16, Australia singer-songwriter Jayne Denham sat down with us in Nashville to talk in-roads with the U.S. trucking community, her new "Calamity" record, the "Lights on the Hill" memorial for fallen haulers taken before their time in Australia and more. Also: Bonus update from the scene with the custom rigs on offer at White's Travel Center with Overdrive's own Matt Cole. Rotella SuperRigs continues through Saturday, June 16.

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00:21:18

ELD impacts, take 3,456: Reserved parking, hurry-up...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/06/08

This edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast picks up in part from where we left off in the intro last week with a note from Carolyn Carroll on the utility she finds in paid parking reservations. You can find our report, “ELDs up the ante on parking”, on the growth in those (reviled by many but appreciated by many as well) and much more besides at OverdriveOnline.com. In our talk Carroll lays out her now seven-year tour in trucking both in team and solo operations, as a company driver for a time and

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00:42:12

How long will the good times last? And: Mailbag from...

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2018/06/01

More tales of private parking enforcement via booting and towing result in what James Smith of Jackson, Ga., calls a "very expensive Kentucky Fried Chicken meal." Further perspective on the utility of paid-reserved parking, the demise of truck-dedicated parking at the Walmart in Aurora, Colo., and some predictions from panelists at last week's Truckstop.com's user conference in Dallas on just how long good economic conditions will last in the wider economy -- and in trucking.

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00:24:46

The 'Amazon effect' and rate opportunities for small...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/05/25

The first in what will ultimately be two podcasts sharing portions of a trucking-insights panel held at Truckstop.com’s third Connected user conference, held earlier this week in Dallas. Insights on rates growth post-ELD mandate, economic conditions and just when we might look out for a downturn, automation in trucking and brokerage and much more were on offer from Tucker Company Worldwide broker Jeff Tucker, Truckstop.com Chief Economist Noel Perry, and Stifel’s John Larkin. This edition features

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00:27:23

ELD-exempt trucking with W. Joel Baker: Inspections,...

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2018/05/18

Independent owner-operator W. Joel Baker's W. recent blog post about business opportunity, rate improvement and other conditions since the ELD mandate was the jumping-off point for this edition of Overdrive Radio. Baker trucks in an ELD-exempt 1999 International, and he’s had difficulty keeping up with is customers’ demand for RV delivery lately, given the double whammy of an improved economy and the availability constraints around trucking that have resulted from the mandate. He was writing on his

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00:28:40

Trucking needs the 'brotherhood virus' to come alive:...

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2018/05/11

Owner-op Jim Bardsley believes about the best thing that could happen to trucking, from perspectives of safety and so much more, is the spread of the brotherhood virus, a return of some semblance of honor to the hiring practices, follow-on training protocols and more in place today at carriers large and small. Bardsley, in this edition of Overdrive Radio, reflects on his three-decade-plus career and the years-long dormancy of the brotherhood virus, among other subjects covered, from ELDs, a 1980s

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00:14:14

Parking problems nothing new, though most truckers...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/05/04

A run through the mailbag with contrarians and true believers around the question of whether the ELD mandate has exacerbated parking issues around the nation. And: A little detail on an hours-enforcement-with-ELD situation that begged for officer leniency when none was to be had.

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00:45:22

Will FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez thread the...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/04/26

No sooner did we receive word of an amendment proposed to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that seemed to be designed to grease the skids for some sort of regulatory hours of service action by the FMCSA than we heard the opposite, at least according to an aide to the amendment's sponsor, Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford. Overdrive News Editor James Jaillet, TruckersNews.com Editor David Hollis and Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills talked about the amendment yesterday for the

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00:31:58

Don't be a 'one-and-done': Survive your first year...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/04/20

The last of three separate seminars at the Mid-America Trucking Show conducted by Sirius XM radio host and owner-op coach/consultant Kevin Rutherford was billed to focus on surviving the first year under your own authority as an owner-op. Rutherford in recent years has pushed the idea that owner-operators with authority pursuing relationships with brokers to move freight could make for the most efficient models in trucking, as long as all parties are honest with each other. As any regular reader

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00:26:43

800-pound gorilla needs a few good lumpers: Team...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/04/12

When they booked a load going from one Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas to another in Edwardsville, Ill., Gary and Ondena Caraway had some indications all would not be well for the couple's van trailer on the other end. Problem is, they missed the fine-print indication on the load listing that 12-48 hours would be required for unload. When that 48 hours turned into a week.... Well, let's just say they were not happy. The Caraways' story is this week's Overdrive Radio edition.

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00:31:06

Motor carrier self-insurance 'privilege': Removal...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/03/29

This talk with owner-operator and OOIDA board member Tilden Curl of Washington State touches on the option available to (mostly large) motor carriers to self-insure, whose implications "run deep," Curl says, from issues of training and substandard pay to safety and more. Curl also weighs on the central theme in this week following all the hours of service/ELD angst percolating among haulers of all stripes -- "It seems like the small working man doesn’t get heard anymore, even if they get the chance

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00:10:07

Jason Lee Wilson live at MATS 2018

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/03/27

It was a knock-out performance by 2016 Trucker Talent Search winning trucker-singer-songwriter Jason Lee Wilson of Maryville, Tenn., including his infamous “Truck Stop Betty” in homage to a waitress at the old Monteagle Truck Stop, and a track those of you who’ve been dealing with those persnickety ELDs might relate to. This performance occurred at the Progressive Commercial booth in the North Wing at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., March 23. Opening on the harmonica: Joe Harewicz

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00:26:27

Live from Nashville to start MATS week: 'Long Haul...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/03/21

With a new record out from Laughing Hyena records and available at many truck stops around the nation, Paul Marhoefer started the week of the 2018 Mid-America Trucking Show in Nashville, Tenn., where Overdrive Radio caught up with him for an impromptu run through several of his tracks at the Fiddler's Inn. "Long Haul Paul" also talks a bit here through his approach to a new irregular series he's penning on the Overdrive Extra blog, "Faces of the Road."

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00:50:07

Lay of the land for owner-operators: By the numbers,...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/03/20

Todd Amen of ATBS is increasingly bullish on the prospects of income improvements for owner-operators in 2018 as capacity pressures mount and rates rise for independents and leased reefer, dry and flatbed haulers paid on a percentage of the load. Expect, he says, many of those paid per-mile to see pay-rate hikes this year, too. These are just a couple 2018 and forward predictions he makes in this special-edition Overdrive Radio podcast -- audio from the owner-operator business services firm's

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00:20:33

Double-brokering, ELDs, pausing that 14-hour clock:...

Overdrive Radio ·

2018/03/16

The second half of Overdrive Radio's Todd Dills' talk with Leander Richmond, Eagle Express small fleet owner, about brokers' and truckers' often conflicting expectations, his own thoughts on the hours of service regulations now that ELDs are here, business conditions, an experience with double brokering and more. That follows a bit of a further mailbag round of voices on the potential for change in the hours of service.

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