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FMCSA authority revocation anomaly: BOC3 blanket companies cleared out
A whopping 1,700-plus authority revocations in one day last month, outside FMCSA's usual revocation cadence, turned heads around Thanksgiving. FMCSA removed several blanket BOC3 companies from its system, putting trucker clients in shutdown risk.
December 8, 2023
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Predatory towing: How common it is, and how truckers can avoid it
New research identifies how stark a problem predatory towing is for truckers, offering recommendations on how owner-operators and fleets can prevent it from happening to them. There's potential, too, for recourse if it does.
December 7, 2023
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NYC proposes fee for trucks to enter | Alert: High wind warnings
The city is proposing a congestion fee to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. Also: TuSimple winding down U.S. operations; new TA Express, Sheetz locations open; Wyoming high wind alerts.
December 6, 2023
Landstar truck in lower Manhattan
Overdrive Radio
Overdrive's 2023 Truckers of the Year: The 'exit interviews' toward the finale, Part 1
This Overdrive Radio roundtable, the first two of sets of talks featuring Trucker of the Year semi-finalists, focused on the year just passed -- the challenges faced, and just how the businesses chose to overcome.
December 4, 2023
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Electronic Logging Devices
10 ELDs removed from FMCSA's 'Registered Devices' list
Drivers who use the revoked ELDs must stop using the devices and revert to paper logs or logging software to record required hours-of-service data and replace the revoked ELDs with a compliant device before Jan. 30, 2024.
December 1, 2023
DOT officer checking truck driver's logs
Partners in Business
Maximize your downtime efficiency over-the-road
Whether your truck's at a dock waiting to get loaded or unloaded, or you're planning your next load, there are things you can do to maximize that time to be as efficient as possible.
November 29, 2023
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Business
Bestpass acquiring Fleetworthy Solutions
Bestpass has in recent years expanded beyond its toll offering, adding violations, citations, misread detection and tax in its own solution set, and earlier this year added weigh-station bypass, permitting and CDL Driver Protection.
November 28, 2023
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Overdrive Radio
How to not just survive, but thrive, through the bottom of the freight markets
This week's Overdrive Radio features longtime owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford's guide to solidify the business base to take advantage of opportunities at the markets' bottom, and to excel for long-term trucking at the top.
November 27, 2023
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Equipment
Used-truck prices have fallen about a quarter this year
ACT Research reported used truck prices also slid another 1% in October from September. In other news: ATA's Truck Tonnage Index improved in October, erasing a September decline in freight hauled by trucks.
November 24, 2023
used trucks parked on lot
Business
Pre-Thanksgiving rates bump nowhere to be found, yet diesel hits lowest average since summer
Recent declines in the national average have diesel prices at their lowest in nearly 4 months, with spot rates holding flat, by and large. Also: Market conditions for carriers rebounded some in September; St. Christopher receives big donation from AMBEST.
November 22, 2023
trucks at fuel island
Regulations
AB 5's latest: Why interstate trucking should be exempt
A long-overdue hearing in federal court last week featured OOIDA and the California Trucking Association arguing the detrimental impacts on interstate commerce of California's law that effectively bans the leased owner-operator model in the state.
November 22, 2023
Trucks on California highway
Overdrive Extra
The truck lease-purchase model: Should we drive a stake in its heart?
What the FMCSA's truck-lease task force should be asking: How do we purge predatory programs while making it possible for drivers to still pursue the dream of being an owner-operator? What guardrails could make fair play the norm?
November 21, 2023
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Regulations
Owner-op shutdown, TQL boycott: New association makes its mark
The National Owner Operators Association has burst on the scene as a bit of a bomb thrower in 2023. Here Overdrive checks in on the newly founded org's ongoing boycott and shutdown.
November 20, 2023
National Owner Operator Association member Gabriel Scott drove this truck to TQL headquarters to demand payment face-to-face. Scott, along with NOOA President Mike Boston, have made broker nonpayment and transparency issues central to their advocacy.
Overdrive Extra
Brokers' 3 a.m. calls -- 'Unless there's been a death in the family, a text will suffice'
That's but one viewpoint delivered by readers following Long Haul Paul's "Weigh In" tale earlier in the week detailing instances of over-eager brokers' sleep-disturbing check-ins in the wee hours. Here, LHP weighs next steps, rounding up commentary.
November 17, 2023
Illustration of incoming calls to truckers overnight asking for load status
Regulations
California files petition with FMCSA for waiver for meal/rest breaks | Wind warnings: Wyoming I-80, other roads
FMCSA opened the door to the waiver requests in August, which if granted would allow California and Washington state to enforce their own meal and rest break laws. Also: Indiana propane haulers get HOS relief; high wind warning in Wyoming; more.
November 15, 2023
truck parked on on-ramp at night
Regulations
FMCSA tightens screws on brokers who 'do not intend to pay' carriers: Final rule
The agency said its changes to the broker regulations are intended to reduce freight fraud by "limiting the time brokers can continue to accrue claims" before their authority is suspended, among other changes to broker/forwarder and surety/trust regs.
November 15, 2023
Trucks backed to dock
Small Fleet Champ
How the Small Fleet Champs beat the down market in 2023
Overdrive's 2023 Small Fleet Champs and finalists are poised to make it through a rough freight economy with moves made in preparation for tough times. Gain insights via this edition of Overdrive Radio, a roundtable on building business for stability.
November 13, 2023
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Regulations
ATA, OOIDA split on bills that would guarantee overtime for employee truck drivers
Big names in the Senate and House on Thursday introduced the Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act, meant to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. OOIDA supports, ATA opposes, and similar bills in the last Congress failed to gain traction.
November 9, 2023
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FMCSA authority revocation anomaly: BOC3 blanket companies cleared out
A whopping 1,700-plus authority revocations in one day last month, outside FMCSA's usual revocation cadence, turned heads around Thanksgiving. FMCSA removed several blanket BOC3 companies from its system, putting trucker clients in shutdown risk.
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Overdrive editors and ATBS present the industry’s best manual for prospective and committed owner-operators. You’ll find exceptional depth on many issues in the 2022 edition of Partners in Business.
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