Beste Overdrive Radio podcaster (2025)

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Get in where you fit in: Hotels4Truckers revamped for truck parking-friendly, discounted bookings 21:09

5d ago21:09

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, Hotels4Truckers.com proprietor Dan Fuller, former driver and independent owner-operator, details completion of a project years in the making. The website and now mobile app as well got its start simply as a cataloging of hotels around the nation where parking a tractor and 53-foot trailer was not only poss…

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Don't be an unwitting accomplice to cargo theft: Cautionary tale, steps to mitigate risk 21:55

11d ago21:55

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Today, a bit of a hypothetical that is really not hypothetical at all, though we’ll withhold names with multiple court cases pending. But consider the scenario: You engage with a broker you feel you know is legitimate for a load of copper moving toward the Northeast. You drop that load for $1,600, you ultimately get paid, and you go on about your b…

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'Road less traveled': Trucker of the Month Ken Brodeur takes control with authority 24:05

17d ago24:05

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, January Trucker of the Month Ken Brodeur, owner-operator out of Escondido, California, tells the tale of his circuitous path to trucking over three decades of prior IT tech and music-industry careers. He leased and then purchased his first and current truck in 2016, a new Kenworth W9 that he’s kept in grea…

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Beat the 'winner's curse' of auction-type negotiations for better freight rates 39:49

23d ago39:49

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With this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, we pick up where longtime Overdrive contributor, former OTR owner and current business coach Gary Buchs left off on the Overdrive Extra blog last week: https://www.overdriveonline.com/15736116/ There, as regular readers will know, he penned and published notes on the "fine art" of rates negotiation, with…

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How to build the 'Remarkable One Truck Company': NASTC, Kevin Rutherford on ROTC progress 38:42

1M ago38:42

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"The goal of this program is to take one truck and figure out how to squeeze the maximum amount of profit out of that truck." --Kevin Rutherford on NASTC's ROTC joint effort with his businessKevin Rutherford's Let's Truck and other initiatives are likely well-known to Overdrive readers. We last heard his voice here in Overdrive Radio from the confe…

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Staying young, learning more: Master of the owner-operator craft Alan Kitzhaber, Trucker of the Year 33:34

1M ago33:34

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"Constantly trying to learn new things just keeps you keeps your mind young. It keeps you going. When you stop learning, you kind of just stagnate and drift away." --Owner-operator Alan KitzhaberOverdrive Radio listeners will recognize the voice at the top of the podcast this week as that of longtime owner-op Alan Kitzhaber of Eau Claire, Wisconsin…

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Hacked? How trucking owner-ops can contain the damage -- or better yet, avoid it in the first place 33:44

2M ago33:44

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"Theft increased 1,445 percent from the first quarter in 2022 to the first quarter in 2024." --Kathleen Dasal, retired from the Ansonia commercial credit bureauDasal presented at this past November’s annual conference of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies – and emphasized that huge increase in cargo theft over these last years, ai…

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Tour-haul 'special forces': Small fleet owner Josh Rickards building the team with owner-ops 37:33

2M ago37:33

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For every story of difficulty expanding beyond a single truck with leased owner-operators, there's probably more than one tale of success. The latter's been the story the last several years for owner-operator Josh Rickards, whose Rickards Transportation Services business as of late November was up to a total of five owners leased on in addition to …

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4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Overdrive Radio's countdown to 2025 1:02:22

2M ago1:02:22

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Happy New Year! This final Overdrive Radio podcast for 2024 -- or the first for 2025, whenever you happen to be catching it -- looks back on the year that has been, a certainly sluggish one when it comes to business for many, though with a degree of optimism heading into 2025 with a new administration incoming and hope for business-friendly policy …

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Five decades of trucking, advocacy, 'swinging the bat' for small business: Joe Rajkovacz 35:17

2M ago35:17

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"I just believe very passionately that if you're going to take your industry seriously, you need to be engaged, you need to be involved." --Joe Rajkovacz, Director of Government Affairs, Western States Trucking AssociationThe quote above comes from this week's long talk with Rajkovacz, with a long history in trucking and with the last decade and a …

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'You can succeed': Truckers of the Month beat 2024's sluggish conditions with more than just will 30:10

2M ago30:10

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In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, drop into the second and final part of this series re-engaging with Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year competitive field of owner-operators, with check-ins on how the year shaped up for each individual owner. Likewise, you'll hear plenty considered advice from each business owner for peers, particularly tho…

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Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 Trucker of the Year 'exit interviews,' part 1 30:56

3M ago30:56

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Today on Overdrive Radio, after a year's worth of talks featuring Overdrive's Truckers of the Month, all of whom remain in the running for the top 2024 Trucker of the Year honor, the first of two final talks featuring a bevy of contenders. Call this and next week's podcast edition the “Exit Interviews” series, if you will, as judges work through th…

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What can owner-ops expect from Trump II? Outlook for speed limiters, transparency, parking, more 30:33

3M ago30:33

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When Donald Trump first came into the White House back in 2017, an express deregulatory agenda yielded various moves most owner-operators could count as wins. Though the administration famously did not act to block implementation of the Congressional electronic logging device mandate later that year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration'…

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Owner-op Garrett Steenblik's 200-lb. weight loss journey to Trucker's Body Shop program to give back 33:04

3M ago33:04

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When truck owner Garrett Steenblik was in the throes his personal body-transformation journey toward losing, ultimately, 200 lbs. over-the-road, he was hauling with Boyle Transportation, it was his birthday, and he got a message over the Qualcomm from operations wishing him a happy birthday. Such was his commitment to working physical activity into…

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Paying trucking knowledge forward: Growing pains and adjustment, more from four Small Fleet Champs 46:24

3M ago46:24

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It’s one of our favorite opportunities covering the trucking world these last several years -- the annual conference of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, for four years now the sponsor of Overdrive's annual Small Fleet Championship, recognizing and sharing the stories of business excellence for owner-operators who hit and/or cro…

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Veterans Day special: Coalition supporting vets in ag careers honored in Howes Hall of Fame 25:23

4M ago25:23

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Here’s wishing all United States military veterans in the audience a happy Veterans Day with this edition of Overdrive Radio. To mark the day, we bring you this dive into the work of the Farmer Veteran Coalition, an organization that got its start back in 2009 with a goal of a then California/Mexico produce farmer to help support returning military…

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'Good day to be out trucking': Overdrive October Trucker of the Month, two-truck Zimmerman Ag 27:09

4M ago27:09

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In this Overdrive Radio, we catch up primarily with owner-operator Daryl Zimmerman of Belgrade, Minnesota, co-owner with his brother, Nelson (also featured in the podcast), of two-truck Zimmerman Ag. Daryl was looking out the windshield glass on a bright and sunny day running between Minneapolis-St. Paul and his area in Central Minnesota bound for …

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The 'driver shortage' is dead? And: Inside the broker-carrier scrum at last week's summit 34:48

4M ago34:48

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"The driver shortage is dead, long live the driver shortage."That’s sort of the message you might get digging into a recent truck driver compensation study and the "driver shortage" narrative’s longest proponent’s response to it. That compensation study was conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine at the request of …

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$2 million Peterbilt 389X with a special mission, benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, other orgs 25:02

4M ago25:02

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The expert singing voice of Marine veteran and Nashville-headquartered singer-songwriter Sal Gonzalez warms up and brings to fruition a special celebration event held last week by Rush Truck Centers in Nashville, Tennessee, in this edition of Overdrive Radio. Rush was announcing the big winner of the quite expensive, final, only 2025 build of a Pet…

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Rene Holguin, September Trucker of the Month, cementing a legacy with authority 23:09

5M ago23:09

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"He's such a hard worker. He's always helping his family to help get their own authority. He'll let them lease on for a while ... until they get on their feet and get their own authority. ... He's just a good person all around." --Messina Holguin, speaking to reasons she nominated her husband, owner-operator Rene Holguin, for Overdrive's Trucker of…

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Owner-operator income/cost stability shows in 2024 ATBS update: When will rates rise? 1:00:40

5M ago1:00:40

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"If you're doing the right things ... if you're looking at your numbers, figuring out your fixed cost per day, your variable cost per mile, and choosing the best loads for yourself, you're going to weather this winter just fine like you have the last two years. And then when freight turns around, you're going to be in really good shape." --ATBS Vic…

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When will freight markets turn? Part 2: Building business for trucking's down cycles 29:24

5M ago29:24

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In this week's Overdrive Radio edition, Part 2 of our "How to build business for trucking’s down cycles" online roundtable in late August. Among the questions flagged for panelists was just whether, and when, the long freight-rates slide of the last two years might turn the corner, or at least stabilize. Since the late-August time period, the march…

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'The sweetness of low price' v. the 'sour of bad service': Trucking through the freight trough 34:00

5M ago34:00

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"The sweetness of low price is really fast, even though the sour of bad service lasts a lot longer. The sweetness is really tempting to jump in and take." --Silver Creek Transportation founder and president Jason CowanAt the top of this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, you'll hear the sage words of Silver Creek Transportation Founder and Presiden…

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No more detention half measures: The time is now to charge for it and actually collect from shippers 30:18

5M ago30:18

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When we polled owner-operators about a year ago on recent-history improvement, or lack thereof, in detention time along their routes and at their customers, a huge majority noted the situation they'd seen at docks hadn’t improved to any noticeable degree in recent years. Forty percent of all poll respondents at the time in fact said detention had g…

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Investment diligence over nearly 35 years has Trucker of the Month on path to profitable retirement 26:31

6M ago26:31

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In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast edition we’ll hear more of our talk with August Trucker of the Month Alan Kitzhaber, and a good bit about one particular subject near and dear to the 4-million-mile owner of a 1995 Kenworth T600 he's piloted since it was new."I've been very religious about investing my money instead of spending it, and it's pu…

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Trucker of the Month Alan Kitzhaber: 4 million miles, ever greater efficiency for his '95 T600 30:29

6M ago30:29

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"Some guys customize their truck via paint, chrome, lights, and things like that. I customize my truck to make it a more comfortable place to be, a more profitable truck, a more efficient truck." --Owner-operator Alan KitzhaberIt's another rewinder of sorts for this week in the Overdrive Radio podcast series. If you missed the news last week Tuesda…

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Brake inspection blitz this week: Roadside inspection system should be 'preventive,' not punitive 31:06

6M ago31:06

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With the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Brake Safety Week inspection initiative kicking off August 26 with stepped-up brake checks and inspections, generally, in jurisdictions across North America, we’re looking back at a podcast from earlier in the year – February 2024 to be exact. The episode featured Wisconsin-headquartered owner-op…

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Owner-operators survive, thrive: Lightning round from the final Waupun Truck-N-Show 25:38

6M ago25:38

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It was no doubt a bittersweet last weekend in Waupun, Wisconsin, at what could well be the final edition of the decades-running Waupun Truck-N-Show, where Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole was on hand talking to many among the owner-operators and other truckers in attendance: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-extra/article/15681420/final-waup…

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Fair shot at highway safety: Trucker of the Month Mike Nichols a voice for sharing the road 33:40

7M ago33:40

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"As anti-automated driving as I am, I might almost rather see some robots. At least they're not going to be looking at screens" going down the road. --owner-operator and Overdrive July 2024 Trucker of the Month Mike Nichols: https://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-of-the-year/article/15680591/trucker-of-the-month-mike-nichols-knows-limits-hones-str…

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Trucker of the Month Mike Nichols steers business with reliable freight, maintenance partners 32:43

7M ago32:43

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This week on the podcast, we're diving in headfirst to the history of Wisconsin-headquartered owner-operator Mike Nichols, Overdrive's July Trucker of the Month and profiled recently in our Trucker of the Year semi-finalist series by Matt Cole: https://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-of-the-year/article/15680591/trucker-of-the-month-mike-nichols-kn…

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'Thank you to all drivers everywhere': Part 2 on the road with Alabama and tour hauler Josh Gentry 36:51

7M ago36:51

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More, today, from Overdrive Editor Todd Dills's run with Josh Gentry. Gentry’s the son of country music titan Alabama’s founding member and bassist Teddy Gentry. Today, we dive into the history of the band with some of the hands at its headquarters in Ft. Payne, Alabama, around which all three founding members -- Gentry, lead vocalist Randy Owen, a…

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'Roll On, Alabama': On the road with tour hauler Josh Gentry for music titans' Roll On II tour 27:17

7M ago27:17

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Thursday, July 18, would be a short day of work for operator Josh Gentry, starting at a leisurely 10 a.m. in Fort Payne, Alabama, outside the Quality Inn in town. There, Gentry met Overdrive Radio host Todd Dills to get rolling, the pair starting the day in Gentry's Chevrolet en route to the site of an old auto dealership in town that, since the mi…

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4 million miles, ever greater efficiency for owner-op Alan Kitzhaber and his 1995 Kenworth T600 28:49

8M ago28:49

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"Some guys customize their truck via paint, chrome, lights, and things like that. I customize my truck to make it a more comfortable place to be, a more profitable truck, a more efficient truck." --Owner-operator Alan KitzhaberMay 2024 was a big month for owner-operator Alan Kitzhaber, running with his authority as Oakridge Transport out of a home …

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Man's mastery of the machine: Trucker of the Month's firm hand in the Amazon system 31:59

8M ago31:59

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This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast drops into Overdrive editor Todd Dills' interview with Overdrive June Trucker of the Month Greg Labosky, the man who is master of the machine, in some respects, that is the Amazon loads platform Relay: https://www.overdriveonline.com/trucker-of-the-year/article/15678623/careful-prep-the-name-of-the…

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FMCSA's safety rating revamp: Truckers urge caution if using roadside data 57:45

8M ago57:45

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This week's Overdrive Radio episode opens a window onto the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's virtual listening session held last week to discuss the agency’s efforts to potentially improve the safety rating system it uses for determining carriers’ fitness to operate in interstate commerce. Sit in on virtually the entire session, featur…

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Dark side of the road: Inside FBI's 'Highway Serial Killings' initiative, fight against trafficking 46:59

8M ago46:59

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In this podcast, the voice of former FBI counterintelligence assistant director Frank Figliuzzi, in conversation with Overdrive News Editor Matt Cole about the new book, "Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers," a close look at the FBI's long investigation of almost 1,000 murders over decades collected and analyzed in its "Highway Serial Kil…

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Marroquin brothers' journey from Guatemala to U.S. trucking, now as owner-operators 36:19

8M ago36:19

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Walking the giant hallway in the South Wing every year at the Mid-America Trucking Show, you’ll find benches that line the route, where people stop to rest. It's nice and quiet out there in general, compared to the show floor. On one Gary Buchs' walks down the hallways to or from this or that meeting, he happened to glance over and see four gentlem…

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Trucker of the Month Alec Costerus' odyssey to 10+ mpg and two-truck Alpha Drivers Transportation 43:44

9M ago43:44

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"The power demand, the power that's required to pull a truck down the highway ... the idea is to match the power that's produced by the engine to the power that's required." --Overdrive's May Trucker of the Month Alec Costerus on the bedrock principal behind achieving the best fuel economyAlpha Drivers Transportation two-truck fleet owner and opera…

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What marijuana as a Schedule III controlled substance could mean for truckers 19:43

9M ago19:43

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The Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration on May 20 officially published its notice of proposed rulemaking that, if finalized, would reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to Schedule III: https://www.regulations.gov/document/DEA-2024-0059-0001 The Biden Administration signaled its intent to move forward with …

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A pair of custom 2024 Peterbilt 589s, and one standout owner's advice for the next generation 22:23

9M ago22:23

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As promised two weeks back, here's Part 2 of our talk with May Trucker of the Month Gary Schloo, longtime owner-operator leased to Long Haul Trucking for the last three decades of a five-decade trucking career. Schloo here tells a can't-miss story about how he and his wife and business partner, Terri, met. It' the "classic trucker-and-the-waitress …

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Roadcheck chicken-house wrap with the Mustang | Running the High Road with tour-haul small fleet 28:56

10M ago28:56

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After years of scheduling needed preventive maintenance and sitting out the Roadcheck blitz, last year Mike "Mustang" Crawford hauled through his first Roadcheck in years. As we did after last year's 72-hour inspection blitz, we’ll be riding along again in this Overdrive Radio edition through three days’ worth of scale reports from our friendly on-…

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What is your time worth? Re-engage with owner-operator business fundamentals to know the answer 15:56

10M ago15:56

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"Time is money," as the old saying goes, and as such "time management is money management." That was how the great Red Eye Radio host Eric Harley put it near the beginning of this our last in a series of Partners in Business short podcasts on Overdrive Radio, talks excerpted from a long roundtable conducted at the Mid-America Trucking Show this yea…

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A short leash on long-term success: Trucker of the Month Gary Schloo 28:14

10M ago28:14

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This week's Overdrive Radio podcast edition features primarily the voice of Overdrive April Trucker of the Month, owner-operator Gary Schloo. The three-decade-plus owner's headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, leased to Long Haul Trucking out of relatively nearby Albertville. Today, Schloo runs dedicated to a particular customer in Long Haul Trucking…

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Trucker Josh Giesbrecht building a legacy for family, fellow truckers, people all around the world 20:20

10M ago20:20

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Today on the podcast, a brief look back into a little bit of Overdrive’s recent history, as you'll hear Canada-headquartered owner-operator Josh Giesbrecht intimate up top. Giesbrecht notes Overdrive gave him his "first big break" on the road to expanded influence around the world for his daily/near-daily series of video blogs he's hosted for nigh …

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How to transform OTR 'work/life' division into real balance, unity with customers 11:07

10M ago11:07

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Here find 2024's third mid-week special edition in Overdrive Radio's series of Partners in Business shorts culled from a long owner-operator business-focused talk at the Mid-America Trucking Show last month with Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio.This episode extends from the first couple, expanding on the necessity of close business analysis in near-rea…

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Hey shippers, we're out here: Small fleet resolved to sharpen biz on long haul for change 22:56

10M ago22:56

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Last week we heard Part 1 of a long talk with Gill Freightlines small fleet owner Surinder Gill, with four trucks owned and headquartered out of Manteca, California, where Gill’s following in the draft of his owner-operator father’s 60-year trucking legacy. (As you can see in the cover image for this week's Part 2 of that talk, the long legacy is h…

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Should freight brokers' required bond amount vary according to company size? 21:34

10M ago21:34

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Manteca, California, Gill Freightlines small fleet owner Surinder Gill's family's trucking lineage traces back through 60 years of OTR work done by his father, Gurmail Singh Gill, over more than one continent. The elder Gill hauled first in his native India, some in the Middle East, and finished out his career in the United States. Surinder Gill ha…

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Staying choosy about brokers -- 'too many scammers out there': Trucker of the Month Candace Marley 24:12

11M ago24:12

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In today’s world, the kind of choosiness with brokers owner-operator Candace Marley practices is an absolute must for many independents. "I don't jump in with just any broker out there," she said. "There's too many scammers out there, too many double brokers, too many frauds." In this edition of Overdrive Radio, Marley details the relationship-buil…

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'You're the business owner, so be the boss': Engage your own trucking numbers to take control 8:31

11M ago8:31

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Here find 2024's second mid-week special edition in Overdrive Radio's series of Partners in Business shorts culled from a long owner-operator business-focused talk at the Mid-America Trucking Show last month with Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio. This one digs into more of the routine business analysis practice participants in the discussion began to t…

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How to leave trucking better than you found it, with Small Fleet Champ Jason Cowan 30:25

11M ago30:25

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“Like a lot of young boys, I grew up in a farming and trucking environment, and as I stood on the stage a couple of years ago as our company accepted the 2021 Small Fleet Champion of the year award, it hit me that I had hit a pinnacle in my career. Because all I had ever wanted as a young boy was to get my own truck into Overdrive magazine.” --Silv…

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