Owner-operators have a distinct advantage over company drivers in manipulating conditions toward better income, and that's cost management, says ATBS' Richard DeForest in this presentation, delivered at the Aug. 26, 2016 Overdrive/ATBS Partners in Seminar at the Great American Trucking Show. DeForest also laid out his case that the much-talked-about "driver shortage" issue is not a shortage at all, a subject also covered in-depth in Overdrive earlier this year: http://www.overdriveonline.com/the-driver-shortage-alarm/