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1 week ago |
overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills
"If you're not going to do it right the first time, don't do it at all. That's what I tell everybody in here." --2024 Small Fleet Champ Paul RisslerPaul Rissler Transportation is based in California, Missouri, building on the trucking legacy of the owner's father and mother -- the headquarters sits on the property where small fleet owner Rissler grew up, in fact.
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2 weeks ago |
overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills
TranscriptHorse and Buggy Express small fleet owner John Rissler in this week's Custom Rigs series video shares the story of two Sovereign Blue trucks part and parcel of his family's last quarter century trucking. The models have just a few years between them, a 2000 and a 2003 Kenworth W900, both outfitted with 6NZ Caterpillar engines paired with Super 10 transmissions -- "I learned fuel mileage works pretty well ... with that combination," Rissler said.
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2 weeks ago |
overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills
"If it continues like it's going, it'll probably be our best year. ... The way it started out and the way it's going so far, it'll be our best year." --Flatbed owner-operator Ollie "Rufus" Morris reflecting on the year thus farMay Trucker of the Month Rufus Morris of Youngsville, North Carolina, was sounding a lot like April honoree and fellow flatbed owner-op George Kincaid reflecting on the year thus far.
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3 weeks ago |
overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills
The question in the title here is the one a company called Range Energy has set out to answer with an electric-drive system capable to be retrofit to trailer tandems that is set to begin production in 2026, according to company president and CTO Ali Javidan.
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3 weeks ago |
overdriveonline.com | Todd Dills
Remember LoadPay? It was initially pitched to owner-operators way back in 2016 by Truckstop.com (as the company was then known -- it's since dropped the .com from the central company name). It's mobile/digital banking, essentially, and offered at initial launch opportunity for quicker payment for owner-operators from brokers set up within it without involvement of a factoring company.
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