In this week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, we take a run through Hurricane Michael’s devastating effects on the Florida panhandle north through clear to Albany, Ga., where 100-mile-per-hour-plus winds persisted in the fast-moving storm well after landfall. With all the devastation, for some owner-operators new opportunities arise, as regular listeners and readers of Overdrive well know. In this edition we talk more about front-line FEMA/state shuttle relief operations like the one Florida-based independent Tim Philmon contracted to in the wake of the most recent hurricane to hit the U.S. mainland, via a brokerage with a FEMA contract. The bulk of the podcast is devoted to Philmon’s operation, but before we get there, I checked in with fellow Overdrive Senior Editor James Jaillet, who splits some of his time with our sister fleet-news publication CCJ, for a close look into the American Trucking Associations regulatory and legislative agenda. Jaillet’s just off a reporting trip to the Associations’ annual Management Conference and Exhibition, and his thoughts give us a window into the fleet interest group that’s loomed large in the imagination of many an owner-operator over the long run -- reaching the size of an 800-pound gorilla, one might say, during all the advocacy machinations around the ELD mandate.