In this Overdrive Radio podcast what you'll hear is part of Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills' many conversations with Buckland, Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed over two days on the road in mid-April 2017. It tells the story of what Reed sees as a certainly less-than-ideal hours rule when it comes to his operation. He's leased to Ohio Transport out of Middletown, Ohio, and works with agent Greg Simpson to stick within about a 200-mile radius of his home.

In this Overdrive Radio podcast what you'll hear is part of Overdrive Senior Editor Todd Dills' many conversations with Buckland, Ohio-based owner-operator Scott Reed over two days on the road in mid-April 2017. It tells the story of what Reed sees as a certainly less-than-ideal hours rule when it comes to his operation. He's leased to Ohio Transport out of Middletown, Ohio, and works with agent Greg Simpson to stick within about a 200-mile radius of his home.

In this April 2017 interview conducted by Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio, trucker/singer-songwriter Jason Lee Wilson details the recording session that was the result of his winning the Overdrive 2016 Trucker Talent Search competition. For the session, recording his "Roads I've taken" original track, he invited his fellow finalists Will Perry and Keith Snyder to do backing vocals and bass, respectively, at January Sound in Dallas.

In this April 2017 interview conducted by Eric Harley of Red Eye Radio, trucker/singer-songwriter Jason Lee Wilson details the recording session that was the result of his winning the Overdrive 2016 Trucker Talent Search competition. For the session, recording his "Roads I've taken" original track, he invited his fellow finalists Will Perry and Keith Snyder to do backing vocals and bass, respectively, at January Sound in Dallas.

Audio here from ATBS' annual conference call with owner-operators detailing year-end income averages and other data from 2016 among the business services firm's owner-operator clients. Amen outlines what many know about 2016 -- it was a lackluster year for many, with income stagnant to down a bit -- and makes bold predictions about what's going to happen to rates over the next several years as ELDs come into full implementation. Amen will be the first to tell you the crystal ball is what it is, and things change. But if he's reading the landscape right, he says, good things for rates are coming, particularly for those who already have a handle on the electronic hours environment, whether with large or the smallest of fleets. It's not all good news, of course, and he offers a word of advice to independents: Start looking for ways to maximize income by cost-cutting or other measures now -- if you can hang on well into next year and beyond, there could be a payoff on the other side of the ELD mandate.

Audio here from ATBS' annual conference call with owner-operators detailing year-end income averages and other data from 2016 among the business services firm's owner-operator clients. Amen outlines what many know about 2016 -- it was a lackluster year for many, with income stagnant to down a bit -- and makes bold predictions about what's going to happen to rates over the next several years as ELDs come into full implementation. Amen will be the first to tell you the crystal ball is what it is, and things change. But if he's reading the landscape right, he says, good things for rates are coming, particularly for those who already have a handle on the electronic hours environment, whether with large or the smallest of fleets. It's not all good news, of course, and he offers a word of advice to independents: Start looking for ways to maximize income by cost-cutting or other measures now -- if you can hang on well into next year and beyond, there could be a payoff on the other side of the ELD mandate.

Listen in on Bendix' Fred Andersky's presentation at the Mid-America Trucking Show, part of the company's series of brief "tech talks" at its show booth, on the realistic outlook for truly "autonomous" trucks -- they're a long, long way off, to say the least, he notes.

Listen in on Bendix' Fred Andersky's presentation at the Mid-America Trucking Show, part of the company's series of brief "tech talks" at its show booth, on the realistic outlook for truly "autonomous" trucks -- they're a long, long way off, to say the least, he notes.

OOIDA's "Knock Out Bad Regs" effort to hold the Trump administration accountable for its pledge to ease regulatory burdens, as they relate in this case to small business trucking, spurred this conversation at the Mid-America Trucking Show in March 2017. Overdrive's Todd Dills spoke with OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer and OOIDA board member and small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold (with a brief appearance near the end by owner-operator Marion Spray) about just where the association's case against the ELD mandate is (pending to the Supreme Court) and what's happening all around the nation as truckers take matters into their own hands delivering the message to lawmakers.

OOIDA's "Knock Out Bad Regs" effort to hold the Trump administration accountable for its pledge to ease regulatory burdens, as they relate in this case to small business trucking, spurred this conversation at the Mid-America Trucking Show in March 2017. Overdrive's Todd Dills spoke with OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer and OOIDA board member and small fleet owner Monte Wiederhold (with a brief appearance near the end by owner-operator Marion Spray) about just where the association's case against the ELD mandate is (pending to the Supreme Court) and what's happening all around the nation as truckers take matters into their own hands delivering the message to lawmakers.