This year has no doubt been a wild ride in any number of different ways for every one of you, I’m guessing. Whether you’re leased to a carrier and newly dealing with regular customers’ facility restrictions and the necessity of new personal protective equipment on-site or at once routinely familiar and now sometimes ever-stranger-seeming truck stops along regular routes. Maybe you’re an independent who’s experienced the topsy-turvy rate situation along with that, from the highest of highs of late and those lowest of lows in April and May. Whatever your individual case, there's something for you in this talk with our own contributing writer Gary Buchs and well-known satellite radio host and fellow owner-operator coach Kevin Rutherford in large part on best practices in a time like the present.

How can an owner-operator effectively manage the business when future market prospects are basically a crapshoot? Plenty of answers, here. Many of them re-emphasize tried-and-true business practice, no matter the exterior circumstances weighing on freight and society. Think of it as welcome grounding, perhaps, amid the high-flying cacophony of our time.

The talk was broadcast to Overdrive’s Facebook page live, as part of Overdrive’s GATS Week series of events in late August 2020, also part of our long-running Partners In Business seminar series. The PIB program includes an owner-operator business manual produced in conjunction with business services firm ATBS. PIB is sponsored by TBS Factoring Service.