Todd Dills

Six-truck High Road, LLC, concentrated in the concert tour-haul niche, calls Nashville, Tennessee, home after owner Sharon Lee's move there with intention of building inroads in the niche.

Tour haul small fleet High Road owner Sharon Lee's in it for the people, not the trucks. "The truck part of the business is a means to an end. I love the company, I love the clients, I love the drivers."

The 2024 finalists for Overdrive 's Small Fleet Champ awards are (clockwise from top left) South Dakota-based Hell Bent Xpress, Indiana-headquartered C.W. Express, Paul Rissler Transportation of Missouri and Brian Brewer Trucking, based in DeGraff, Ohio.

This last 389 ever built is a 2025 Peterbilt 389X, powered by a 605-hp Cummins X15 with an Eaton-Fuller 18-speed and outfitted with a 72-inch sleeper. This one-of-a-kind 389's exterior was designed to match the paint scheme of the 1965 Peterbilt Model 358 that is displayed at Rush Truck Centers’ headquarters, commemorating the year the company was founded.

The expert singing voice of Marine vet and singer-songwriter Sal Gonzalez warmed up and brought to fruition Rush Truck Centers' special celebration benefiting Wounded Warrior Project with last 389 sweepstakes.

Last week on Monday, Oct. 14, and on into the following day, as the screenshot above illustrates, the Trucker Path application showed diesel prices at the Colman, South Dakota, Crossroads Truck Stop at a mighty-tempting $1/gal. The picture was sent my way by owner-operators Lee and Lisa Schmitt, who were disheartened to find that, in fact, after they actually traveled to the Crossroads location to fuel, the price there was in fact $3.29.

The two-truck Zimmerman Ag is Overdrive's Trucker of the Month for October. Operating with authority from the get-go, for freight the owners have built a diverse customer base.

Brokers' repeated lapses in insurance/bonding and/or authority point the way forward for federal investigators in Operation Protect Your Load, which started last week.

The million-plus-mile safe drivers were recognized at the NASTC annual conference, along with Roar Logistics, NASTC's Best Broker for 2024.

Truck owners struggling with persnickety emissions-system issues stand to benefit from subsequent years of preventive maintenance lessons learned by experienced techs.