It’s "meet your regulator" day on Overdrive Radio -- there’s plenty to gain, particularly for those of you in the audience who engage with regulatory processes, in getting to know, of a fashion, FMCSA Acting Administrator Robin Hutcheson. For this edition of the podcast, we’ll hear Hutcheson speak at length to the notion of dwindling pride in trucking and investment in its restoration, plenty about her background, FMCSA's regulatory programs, and the agency's parking advocacy role, among other topics. It's all part of a talk she gave with reporters from trucking media to answer pre-submitted questions at the Mid-American Trucking Show last month.

While there wasn’t much in the way of hard news that emerged from the session, hear it in full today. Find a previously-published report from the session at this link: https://www.overdriveonline.com/regulations/article/15290156/fmcsas-new-boss-emphasizes-compensation-detention-issues

Then, perhaps more importantly, we’ll pick up where we left off in the last podcast from Overdrive's post-Partners in Business seminar discussion at MATS with a cross section of owners about business preparation and planning, about cost and revenue strategies, about income, difficulty and success with owner-operators Raeshawn Lucas and David Nihart, budding small fleet owner Pete Anderson, and others.

If you missed Part 1 of that discussion, find it here: https://www.overdriveonline.com/overdrive-radio/podcast/15290751/why-do-truck-drivers-get-into-business-as-owneroperators

Access more information about participating in the Truck Leasing Task Force Administrator Hutcheson discusses in the podcast via: https://www.overdriveonline.com/regulations/article/15290608/fmcsa-accepting-nominations-for-truck-leasing-task-force

Overdrive's 2021 reporting on Florida DOT's parking-funding successes, also mentioned, you can find here: https://www.overdriveonline.com/channel-19/article/15064912/the-truck-parking-impact-of-jasons-law-after-nearly-a-decade