Enter Overdrive’s 2025 Small Fleet Championship

Trucking has quite a few awards packages that acknowledge bigger fleets and companies, likewise particular person drivers. 5 years in the past, Overdrive launched a contest devoted to owner-operators who’ve taken the large step of getting their very own authority and rising past one truck, whether or not they’re nonetheless driving or now in full-time administration.

After that first topsy-turvy yr, 2020, with freight markets on wild rides adjusting to the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, revolutionary small fleet house owners grew their companies in quite a few alternative ways, outstripping their large-fleet counterparts on that entrance in some cases, then combating laborious to take care of throughout the associated fee inflation, and income struggles with charges drops, of the final couple of years.

Put merely, now could be the time to construct on recognition delivered to deserving house owners yearly since that point — the Small Fleet Championship is again for 2025. 

The winners can have demonstrated progress, above-average revenue, and adherence to trucking greatest practices, all pointing to long-term stability and additional progress potential.

What’s in it for the contenders?

•  Bragging rights for one yr because the Small Fleet Champ
• A title belt befitting a champion
• Visibility by way of options on OverdriveOnline.com, together with podcasts and movies
• Protection past Overdrive in sister fleet publication CCJ

And extra. In brief, the form of publicity that may get your rising enterprise observed.

[Related: Paying hard-earned trucking knowledge forward, with four Small Fleet Champs]

The Nationwide Affiliation of Small Trucking Corporations is sponsoring this yr’s Small Fleet Championship program. Finalists obtain a yr’s value of membership within the affiliation, with entry to a myriad of advantages from NASTC’s well-known gas program to drug and alcohol testing providers and way more. All shall be acknowledged on the affiliation’s annual convention, the place the winner shall be introduced in October. Discover extra concerning the affiliation through their web site.How does it work? Overdrive editors will interview the very best candidates, assessment submitted working standards, and choose finalists in two classes. The Small Fleet Champs shall be named in late October on the Nashville, Tennessee, annual convention of the Nationwide Affiliation of Small Trucking Corporations, the Small Fleet Champ program’s sponsor. NASTC is devoted to serving to small trucking firms management their prices by way of managed buying, evaluation, session and advocacy. The group’s final mission is to degree the aggressive enjoying area, permitting member firms to develop, prosper and stay a major pressure in trucking. 

The preliminary software (discover it in full under) have to be stuffed out fully. If there are particular figures you don’t have, present your greatest estimate. Are you championship materials? Enter right this moment! (Entries shall be open by way of July — laborious deadline is July 31 for each preliminary and secondary kinds. After this primary entry type, be looking out for a follow-up electronic mail from Overdrive Editor Todd Dills requesting additional info of potential semi-finalists.)

Small Fleet Champs Paul Rissler Transportation, C.W. Specific emerge victorious

With 4 finalists on-hand in Nashville, Tennessee, for the awards — South Dakota-based Hell Bent Xpress and Paul Rissler Transportation (Missouri) within the 3-10 vans division, Brian Brewer Trucking (Ohio) and Indiana-headquartered C.W. Specific within the 11-30 vans class — Rissler and C.W. Specific emerged victorious.

Eligibility – Candidates should meet all these standards:

• Working with motor service authority over the past 4 full calendar years (2021-2024).
• Operated with 3 or extra Class 8 vans in for-hire freight (owned or leased) for all of 2024.
• Operated not more than 30 Class 8 vans in for-hire freight (owned or leased) as of Dec. 31, 2024.
• Was not one of many prime two finalists for every 2024 Small Fleet Champ award.

Incentives and Dedication

Every finalist will obtain a yr’s value of membership from the Nationwide Affiliation of Small Trucking Corporations, and recognition at NASTC’s annual convention in Nashville, Tennessee, October 23-25. The winners will obtain two years‘ membership.

Every finalist, to be notified in early September, should decide to make each effort to attend the convention in Nashville for announcement of the winner, and can obtain two nights‘ value of lodging on the convention resort for the three-day occasion, in addition to a $500 stipend towards journey bills.  

The winners shall be featured in an Overdrive story and in CCJ. Finalists additionally shall be coated in each publications.

The winners additionally will obtain an engraved, outsized championship belt as an award trophy.

Winners agree and acknowledge that neither Fusable nor any sponsor has made any representations to winners concerning the tax penalties associated to the receipt of any prize. All bills and prices, together with all relevant taxes, related to the acceptance and/or use of any prize are the only and unique accountability of the winner.

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