Todd Dills is the Editor in Chief at Overdrive magazine. He covers business, regulatory, and lifestyle topics, with a focus on freight and transportation policy, while also managing contributions from various writers. His work has been recognized with multiple Jesse H. Neal awards and has been featured in CCJ — Commercial Carrier Journal and Overdrive.
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By: Matt Cole, Todd Dills
After growing the fleet to as many as 40 trucks, Robbie Turnage found balance right around 30 trucks to ensure equipment's maintained, drivers and customers taken care of. With time running out before the July 31 Small Fleet Champ entry deadline, the 2025 finalist noted change on that front. He never expected he'd haul milk from the Southeast to California.
After a fire destroyed his garage and equipment, Clifford Hay II rebuilt the family trucking company into an exception six-truck fleet known for its customer commitment and service -- and immaculate equipment.
Owner-operator Wes Oberman built a custom TMS built with Claude Code/ChatGPT assist, saving hundreds each month with a foundation of real transparency for his growing team of owner-operators.
More than 500 owner-operators completed Overdrive's survey probing freight frauds and broker vetting, nonpayment issues and bond claims. Strategies to weed out bottom-dollar brokers and guard against fraudulent actors seeking "free" freight movement emerge.
By: Todd Dills
Thomasville Furniture Xpress owners Scott Denmark and Scott Cruthis both got their start in the trucking business as owner-operators decades ago. Today, after long careers centered in the LTL furniture space out of North Carolina, the 2025 Small Fleet Champs ride on strong relationships, profits, and service excellence.
Post-SCOTUS' liability ruling, brokers are demanding it, said a Highway company leader. For carriers doing business with brokers who use the Connect vetting system, it could mean new reason to deny non-ELD-connected truckers business.
When a broker's not approved for credit by his factor, owner-op Ruben Dotto insists on payment before unload or flat-out declines to do business. That's after a dirty deal on a $3,800 partial left him hauling for little more than fuel money. He won't make the same mistake twice.
Here's a huge thanks to every small fleet owner who's put their trucking company in the running for the 2026 awards, and good news for those who haven't: we're extending the deadline a couple weeks through to Aug. 15 for initial entry.
By: Todd Dills
Owner-operators were asking that more than a year ago now, just a few months into the Trump administration, after a late 2024 transparency rulemaking proposed to put more onus on brokers to share freight-transaction records. Since the release, favored by big majorities of owner-operators, there'd been no further action at that time by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
The counting is done, and owner-operators and sponsors at the 2026 Large Cars & Guitars truck show raised upward of $14K for breast cancer research, advocacy and support. Founder Tony Justice's show blew past $200K in lifetime donations to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
