In this edition of Overdrive Radio on Veterans Day, we’re going to get a bit of look at how the nation, and the trucking business, remains a bulwark for opportunity no doubt in part attributable to servicemembers’ many sacrifices through the decades gone by.

We’ll hear from Slava Sobetki, co-owner of the Chicago-area-based Taurus Auto Group car-haul fleet, and who Overdrive profiled as well just yesterday as part of a package of stories that digs into a few relative newcomers to the Transportation Management System platform space: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15302588/tms-platforms-not-just-for-large-fleets

Specifically, such systems -- commonly known by the TMS acronym -- that are increasingly geared toward owner-operators and other small fleets. As the TMS market has matured through the years, such technology is no longer just the province of large motor carriers, as the stories make clear. They feature:

**One-truck TB Trucking and its owners Troy and Hather Baumgartner utilizing the Lynks TMS: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15302486/independent-owners-find-money-time-with-new-tms

**Three-truck Shipping Teleporters with the new Command system from Trucker Path: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15303003/smallfleet-owner-finds-organization-growth-with-tms

**And the Ship.Cars platform, where now almost 100-truck Taurus Auto Group has found greater back-office and in-the-field efficiency with the car-haul-specific, and free-to-use, Carrier TMS Ship.Cars offers: https://www.overdriveonline.com/business/article/15302575/taurus-auto-groups-experience-with-shipcars-tms

Taurus owner Slava Sobetki didn’t just hop right into trucking in the back office, though. He got his start in trucking like so many do -– behind the wheel. After a childhood in Moldova, he came to the United States on a student exchange program in the early part of the century. That experience led to a determination to stay, to join what he calls "the greatest country in the world."

Most of the trucks in the Taurus Auto Group fleet today are owner-operated, Sobetki noted, too, sending 10% of the load back to the company, he said. Likewise, most are hotshots, but some owners run stingers or other car-haul-capable trailers with larger trucks.