Todd Dills

Independent small fleet owner Sam Kelly understands "people complaining about fuel prices," he said, but he's still netting "more per truck than I have in years." He's not the only one. He's striking while the iron's hot -- certainly not with a "vacation."

When fully automated, legal and truly driverless trucks are a functionality reality, who needs trucking companies, truck drivers, even traditional truck makers anymore?

Trucking companies from California to Minnesota, Utah to Alabama head to Nashville later in October to battle it out for the Small Fleet Champ title belts. Here meet Overdrive's four finalists for 2026.

It’s a simple truth that owner-operator Robert Forsyth keeps high in mind trucking OTR. His "theory of success," working now for him in business for decades, followed from a young age from his trucking father: "You've got to honor what you say." Follow through.

Former longtime air traffic control specialist and manager Vincent Scott built the new Atlas subscription service, and a free Profit X-Ray load offer evaluation tool, after a move to trucking, where he found too many owner-operators "booking loads on gut feel, with no tower watching their profit," he said.

A chance to weigh in directly, here, and insight on where a driver-led rule petition that would ban the practice might be headed. There's evidence many readers support that effort.

At TenFour D.C. on the National Mall, Long Haul Paul Marhoefer canvassed owner-operator participants with a question on his mind. Namely: Just what motivated their three-day participation? Several among big trucking issues emerge in this week's Overdrive Radio.

Diesel prices are rising again this latest week. New tools for estimating ROI on MPG improvement investment with your own numbers and finding the real net cheapest pump price by state, combined with a capable IFTA tracker, offer paths to savings.

A run down I-40 to the homeplace and back delivers resolve to try, at least, to better be a bond that holds things together, long as humanly possible, though they inevitably fall apart.

This Trucker of the Month's beating the average owner-operator profit margin the first half of this year by 10%, pulling heavy hopper freight with a gas-powered rig now for seven years. Shielded against diesel shocks, he calls the 2019 move to CNG his absolute best ever.