Small-biz challenges dominate trucking-issues panel

From the Mid-America Trucking Present in Louisville, Kentucky, this week’s Overdrive Radio version kicks off persevering with protection as all of us right here spent the present fanning out throughout conference heart grounds to cowl simply as a lot of MATS as doable. The fruits of that labor you’ve seen only a small sampling of up to now, the lot of it collected with the MATS tag right here at OverdriveOnline.com.

Right this moment, drop again to the very starting of the present for an 8 a.m. Thursday, March 27, panel dialogue that set the problems stage for the rest of the occasion. It was moderated by Brent Hutto, former longtime Chief Relationship Officer at Truckstop — now a senior advisor for the load board as he’s joined the workers of the Truck Parking Membership firm.

[Related: Truck Parking Club turns free spaces paid: Is this the future of truck parking?]

You’ll hear quite a lot of voices within the panel dialogue, bearing on freight market dynamics, small enterprise struggles and methods to beat, predatory towing, insurance coverage, parking, fraud within the brokered-freight market, cargo and cost theft and a lot extra. Panelists included:

Hutto began the dialogue with a query directed to enterprise challenges, and the podcast ends with an viewers member’s question as to simply what organizations like OOIDA or regulators would possibly do about „what I name ‚predatory parking,'“ the leased owner-operator stated, with truck stops and different parking amenities areas elevating costs or growing the chances of their heaps dedicated to paid areas. 

Overdrive Radio’s sponsor is Howes, longtime supplier of gas therapies like its Howes Diesel Defender all-weather mileage booster and winter anti-gel treatements to get you thru the coldest temps, the Howes Multipurpose penetrating oil, and different merchandise.As additionally did the questioner, Pugh famous the elemental freedom of personal enterprise to cost what the market will bear for the privilege of parking — „no good disaster goes to waste,“ he quipped — but emphasised particular person advocacy to Congressmembers that any trucker can carry out. „All people in D.C. says we have to do that,“ Pugh famous, referencing the Truck Parking Security Enchancment Act’s allocation of devoted funding to construct truck parking capability. That invoice’s at the moment in its third, unpassed iteration as laws in Congress.

[Related: Get $755 million truck parking bill across the finish line: Truckers to Congress]

Therein, too, lies a part of an answer for these against paid parking, Pugh famous: „If the invoice passes and that cash is used, whether or not by a truck cease, or a metropolis or a municipality or a state, it needs to be free, as a result of it is your cash within the first place.“ 

Take a hear: 

As talked about within the podcast:
**Overdrive’s latest insurance coverage renewal-related function
**Submit-crash litigation sequence from 2022
**Tow firms‘ domination of 2024 DOT listening session
**Overdrive’s revamped Companions in Enterprise start-to-finish playbook for owner-operator careers