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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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00:09:16

'Not adding up': Skepticism of income equation with...

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2017/06/13

Following Clifford "Chappy" Petersen's letter to the President of the United States -- http://www.overdriveonline.com/letter-to-trump-parking-14-hour-rule-congestion-ever-more-urgent-issues-with-elds/ -- stressing the need for hours of service change in light of the mandate for most truckers to use electronic logging devices, owner-operators looked out at the revenue equation with ELD and hours of service regs, detention and truckload rates and determined 'it's not adding up,' in the words of one

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00:26:21

Identity theft: Owner-operator Scott Reed's ongoing...

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2017/06/02

It's an increasingly common scenario: identity theft, which can be a huge negative to your credit rating. It happened to owner-operator Scott Reed a few years back. His identity was stolen by a still-undetermined individual far west of his Ohio home, and after being surprisingly denied on a simple credit application, he was pulled over in the normal run of trucking and notified that there were several warrants out for his arrest. That’s when the reality of just what had happened to his credit truly

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00:16:43

Owner-op Dean Carnahan: Bad health is a 'preventable...

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2017/05/26

There is no more prescient business topic than personal health, as CargoMax-leased owner-operator Dean Carnahan would have it. Without your life, your business can't even be an afterthought. Trouble is, as Carnahan well knows, taking control of diet isn’t always a simple thing to do out on the road. Truck stop options are too often limited to high-calorie, high-sugar junk or fast food these days. He’s hopeful getting more drivers taking a proactive role in healthy eating can spur a movement to

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00:21:22

'It's made me who I am': Owner-operator Keith...

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2017/05/19

Take a run through Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills' conversation with Keith Sampson about a variety of tracks on his "It's Made Me Who I Am" record of rockin' country and trucking music. The record follows Sampson's 2014 win in Overdrive's inaugural Trucker Talent Search, which spurred Sampson on to produce the album, lately inking a deal with Laughing Hyena Records to distribute to truck stops and other locales around the nation. For now, those interested can find it via CDBaby.com, search

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00:11:30

ELDs, rates: Small fleet owner throws cold water on...

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2017/05/12

Following a variety of reports -- and somewhat widespread hope -- that an ELD mandate in place for a significant amount of time might result in a sizable rate gain for small business and other truckers around the nation, small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold throws a little cold water on the notion by appealing to history, in part. Also: Wiederhold discusses nascent efforts in his home state of Ohio to subsidize CDL training and give tax breaks to companies hiring recent graduates.

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00:23:03

When a straight 14 isn't the ideal, or most safe,...

Overdrive Radio ·

2017/04/28

In this Overdrive Radio podcast what you'll hear is part of Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills' many conversations with Buckland, Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed over two days on the road in mid-April 2017. It tells the story of what Reed sees as a certainly less-than-ideal hours rule when it comes to his operation. He's leased to Ohio Transport out of Middletown, Ohio, and works with agent Greg Simpson to stick within about a 200-mile radius of his home.

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00:10:23

2016 Trucker Talent Search winner Jason Lee Wilson...

Overdrive Radio ·

2017/04/25

In this April 2017 interview conducted by Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio, trucker/singer-songwriter Jason Lee Wilson details the recording session that was the result of his winning the Overdrive 2016 Trucker Talent Search competition. For the session, recording his "Roads I've taken" original track, he invited his fellow finalists Will Perry and Keith Snyder to do backing vocals and bass, respectively, at January Sound in Dallas.

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00:52:51

Looking into the crystal ball on ELDs/rates with...

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2017/04/13

Audio here from ATBS' annual conference call with owner-operators detailing year-end income averages and other data from 2016 among the business services firm's owner-operator clients. Amen outlines what many know about 2016 -- it was a lackluster year for many, with income stagnant to down a bit -- and makes bold predictions about what's going to happen to rates over the next several years as ELDs come into full implementation. Amen will be the first to tell you the crystal ball is what it is, and

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00:18:17

Cutting through the 'autonomous' hype with Bendix'...

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2017/04/05

Listen in on Bendix' Fred Andersky's presentation at the Mid-America Trucking Show, part of the company's series of brief "tech talks" at its show booth, on the realistic outlook for truly "autonomous" trucks -- they're a long, long way off, to say the least, he notes.

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00:19:15

Separate regs wheat from the chaff, say OOIDA's Todd...

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2017/03/29

OOIDA's "Knock Out Bad Regs" effort to hold the Trump administration accountable for its pledge to ease regulatory burdens, as they relate in this case to small business trucking, spurred this conversation at the Mid-America Trucking Show in March 2017. Overdrive's Todd Dills spoke with OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer and OOIDA board member and small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold (with a brief appearance near the end by owner-operator Marion Spray) about just where the association's case

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00:14:23

Chad Boblett of Rate Per Mile Masters: More on...

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2017/03/27

In the crowded West Wing at the Louisville convention center during MATS this Friday (apologies for the background noise), Overdrive's Todd Dills talked through load-negotiation and broker-relationship strategy with Chad Boblett, administrator of the Rate Per Mile Masters Facebook group, 10,000 members (and growing) strong. Boblett was on hand at the DAT Load Boards booth to talk load-board use and business strategy with convention attendees.

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00:41:34

Navigating trucking's 'tech bubble': FMCSA outlines...

Overdrive Radio ·

2017/03/25

It was a packed house in the South Wing seminar room Friday, March 24, for FMCSA's electronic-logging-device-implementation seminar for owner-operator and driver attendees at the Mid-America Trucking Show. FMCSA representatives LaTonya Mimms and Danielle Smith here walked attendees through the basics of ELD use and adoption, where the rule hits the road.

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00:36:19

America's Road Team captains to carriers' recruiters:...

Overdrive Radio ·

2017/02/27

Moderated by mostly-owner-operator truckload carrier Jet Express President Kevin Burch, this panel featured four multi-million-miler captains for the America's Road Team, speaking to recruiters and other carrier reps at Conversion Interactive Agency's 2017 Recruiting and Retention conference. Featured were Walmart drivers Allen Boyd and Kenny Lowry, FedEx Freight hauler Don Logan and Steve Fields of YRC out of Kansas City.

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00:05:16

If it means parking options remain, readers say,...

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2017/01/31

A bevy of readers responded to the National Association of Truck Stop Operators' reported opposition to an idea floated by the Federal Highway Administration to relax rules against states adding greater food options to rest areas as a way to help fund the rest areas to keep them open -- thus providing ensuring they remain viable parking options at the same time. There was near unanimity from truckers that the idea was a good one, despite any added competition to truck stops.

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00:07:24

'Common sense, you've got it for a reason' -- Use...

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2017/01/24

In Overdrive Radio mailbag podcast airing readers' view, the subject of declining CB usage is roundly decried. Once and still a valuable tool for sharing and receiving reports about unsafe situations up ahead on the highways and bi-ways of America, the CB is only as good a tool as the number of highway users is large. Readers urged drivers to better employ it day to day for the benefit of all highway users' safety.

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00:19:03

Will the speed-limiter mandate 'die an ignominious...

Overdrive Radio ·

2016/11/22

Former owner-operator Joe Rajkovacz, now representing the Western States Trucking Association, addressed attendees of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies' annual meeting here in Nashville last week. As usual, his talk contained more than a few items of note for owner-operators and small fleets, not least among them his good news view on where the speed-limiter mandate is going (see above) and less-sunny thoughts about a somewhat recent California Air Resources Board meeting mulling

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00:21:52

Partners in Business, part 3: Managing fuel costs

Overdrive Radio ·

2016/11/22

This podcast installment of Overdrive’s Partners in Business, condensed from Overdrive's business manual of the same name, covers how to control fuel costs. Topics include how to minimize fuel consumption, getting a fair fuel surcharge and choosing where to buy fuel.

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00:18:28

Partners in Business, part 2: Managing money and time

Overdrive Radio ·

2016/11/17

One of the biggest hurdles in being a successful owner-operator has little to do with what goes on inside the cab or under the hood. Instead, it’s the challenge you face as an independent who has to run a small business, managing thousands of dollars in revenue and costs. This podcast installment in the Overdrive’s Partners in Business series, excerpting portions of the Partners in Business manual, covers how to develop and use profit and loss statements, and how to understand your revenue, earnings

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00:06:07

Truckers to Trump on regs: Hours, speed limiters,...

Overdrive Radio ·

2016/11/14

Overdrive readers react to Donald Trump's election victory with a call for increased attention to and revision or repeal of, variously, the FMCSA's ELD mandate, NHTSA/FMCSA's proposed speed limiter mandate, the inflexibility of the 14-hour rule and 30-minute break in the hours of service and more.

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00:38:57

A case for stronger owner-operator freight...

Overdrive Radio ·

2016/11/02

How former owner-operator/fleet owner and current educator and radio host Rutherford broke the ice with the mostly-broker audience at Truckstop.com's Connected 2016 user conference: "Many of my listeners think the majority of this room are lying, cheating scumbag parasites sitting in a room with a phone and an internet connection sucking all the profit out of the load." Truth is, brokers serve a purpose in the industry as the outside sales force for many an independent owner-operator, a model for

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