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  • 1 week ago | overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills

    This week's edition of Overdrive Radio is another in our series highlighting contenders for 2025 Trucker of the Year honors, featuring parts of Overdrive Senior Editor Matt Cole’s talk with Virginia-headquartered two-truck straight dump owner-operator business Dice Mayhem’s Trucking, headed up by owner-operator Hunter Hubbard and her husband, Tim.

  • 2 weeks ago | overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills

    Nobody knows the major haul routes and road conditions like all of you, that's sure. With a big infrastructure funding reauthorization slated for next year in Congress, we want to hear your recommendations for states and particular routes where improvements are most needed. Back after some hiatus, I'm happy to intro Overdrive's "Highway Report Card" survey, which you can complete in about five minutes via this link.

  • 2 weeks ago | overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills

    Mack Trucks' big new-model reveal is scheduled for tomorrow: Though he couldn't reveal a lot about the truck, one man who's gotten a look at it, Hell Bent Xpress owner and 2024 Overdrive Small Fleet Champ finalist Jamie Hagen, could say a bit about it. "Here’s a truck that when you see it, it’s more aerodynamic” than you think, he told me a couple weeks ago when we also talked about the auxiliary A/C he's installed in one of Hell Bent's Anthems. “It looks very aggressive, very industrial.

  • 2 weeks ago | overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills

    In 2024, finally, as regular Overdrive readers will know, owner-operator income was up on a year-over-year basis. ATBS Vice President Mike Hosted makes that abundantly clear in this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, featuring the business services firm's March 25 update offering an economic outlook for the year ahead, as well as lessons within the benchmarking data ATBS derives from its tens of thousands of owner-operator clients' performance.

  • 3 weeks ago | overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills

    From the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, this week's Overdrive Radio edition kicks off continuing coverage as all of us here spent the show fanning out across convention center grounds to cover just as much of MATS as possible. The fruits of that labor you’ve seen just a small sampling of to date, the lot of it collected with the MATS tag here at OverdriveOnline.com.

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Todd Dills
Todd Dills @channel19todd
12 Feb 24

RT @SecretaryPete: When a truck driver’s vehicle is towed, they can’t earn a living until they get it back—leaving them vulnerable to preda…

Todd Dills
Todd Dills @channel19todd
17 Nov 22

On the various barriers to decent sleep -- HOS regs, blue spectrum-heavy light: no change in the offing for the former, but there's plenty you can do about the latter:: https://t.co/RBSXFQkWsY

Todd Dills
Todd Dills @channel19todd
14 Nov 22

Independents out of Rowan, Iowa, Troy and Heather Baumgartner, find cost and plenty time savings with Lynks TMS as they set the one-truck business up for an expanded back office with intent to grow: https://t.co/xl3Z6Cfvcz