Best Tow Cast Podcasts (2025)

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Hear the kitty-Cat purr! Rare 3408 in a '79 359 | What works, what doesn't: 4 owners break it down 1:03:26

23h ago1:03:26

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At the top of the podcast, crank it up with a rare breed of a Caterpillar diesel in an on-highway truck, the V8 3408 motor in livestock hauler Troy Bolin’s 1979 Peterbilt 359, a 302-inch-wheelbase unit we got a close look at out at the Crossroads Truck Meet early last month in Missouri: https://www.overdriveonline.com/15747179 Tap that link or list…

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Honoring a father's legacy: Tim Eacret of EZ Pete Interiors 21:03

8d ago21:03

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Here's hoping the Memorial Day long weekend’s been a safe one for you. Today on the Overdrive Radio podcast, a special treat in the work of our own longtime Overdrive Extra contributor Long Haul Paul Marhoefer: https://overdriveonline.com/14865330Marhoefer spent time at the Mid-America Trucking Show with a man who’s been well on his way toward a st…

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Small Fleet Champ C.W. Express: Owner Steve Wilson, from new headquarters, assesses growing pains 24:47

15d ago24:47

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This week’s edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast features C.W. Express small fleet owner Steve Wilson, reigning Small Fleet Champ in the 11-30-truck division after a bit of a growth spurt for the fleet followed Wilson’s brush with death in 2022. The team he’d built around the dry van fleet sustained while he was in hospital for the better part of…

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Flatbed owner-op George Kincaid looks out at prospects of 'phenomenal' year ahead 46:21

22d ago46:21

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"This year, if it goes like it has this past month, it'll be phenomenal." --George KincaidIn this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, an audio window on our feature story about flatbed-pulling owner-operator George Kincaid’s one-truck business, written attendant to the Quinwood, West Virginia-headquartered Kincaid getting the April Trucker of the Mo…

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Kenworth W900: History, legacy, availability through 2026, and what's in store for the W990 27:09

29d ago27:09

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, we’re looking back at the long run of the W900 model from the Kenworth Truck Company. The W900's coming sunset has been among the biggest equipment news of the year -- uncovered ahead of the Mid-America Trucking Show, where the company unveiled the launch of the W900 Legacy Edition special series to close …

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One small step, after step, hundreds of truckers improve life with Mother Trucker Yoga 26:15

1M ago26:15

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This week on Overdrive Radio we track back to the Mid-America Trucking Show and the big news for the trucking community from podcast sponsor Howes. The Howes Hall of Fame added its 12th member when it honored Mother Trucker Yoga proprietor and fitness and wellness coach Hope Zvara at the show. You heard part of Zvara’s story when she was featured h…

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Truck drivers' English-language proficiency and the inspection problem, other issues 36:48

1M ago36:48

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, drop into our conversation with OOIDA Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh at the Mid-America Trucking Show. Pugh was fresh off a whirlwind round of a whole lot of other talking himself, including a MATS-opening breakfast panel discussion you heard here a couple weeks back, then prior to that on Wednesday t…

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'Keep digging' with Dice Mayhem's Trucking, growing dump roots to long-term small fleet success 31:05

2M ago31:05

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This week's edition of Overdrive Radio is another in our series highlighting contenders for 2025 Trucker of the Year, with Overdrive Senior Editor Matt Cole’s talk with Virginia-headquartered two-truck straight dump owner-operator business Dice Mayhem’s Trucking, headed up by owner-operator Hunter Hubbard and her husband, Tim. Hunter’s just about s…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Dry Stouts

2M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are keeping things short… it’s been a hectic couple of weeks. Although the guys have been drinking a lot of Irish Red Ales lately they figured they should mix it up with a D…

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Encouraging freight signs -- for now -- in ATBS annual owner-operator income update 1:14:27

2M ago1:14:27

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In 2024, finally, as regular Overdrive readers will know, owner-operator income was up on a year-over-year basis. ATBS Vice President Mike Hosted makes that abundantly clear in this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, featuring the business services firm's March 25 update offering an economic outlook for the year ahead as well as lessons within the …

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Chicago Beer Pass: Irish Again

2M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are seeing green! The guys decide to dive into a few different cans of Irish Red Ales; one from Phase Three and another from Pollyanna, unfortunately these taste much more l…

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Freight markets and fraud, insurance, towing: Small-biz challenges dominate trucking-issues panel 49:14

2M ago49:14

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Back from the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Kentucky, this Overdrive Radio edition kicks off continuing coverage as all of us here at Overdrive spent the show fanning out across convention center grounds to cover just as much as possible. The fruits of that labor you’ve seen just a small sampling of to date, the lot of it collected with …

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Overdrive's new Partners in Business playbook, start-to-finish resource for an owner-operator career 19:40

2M ago19:40

19:40

In this Overdrive Radio edition, big news: We’re releasing today our brand-new Partners in Business playbook for owner-operator business, start to finish. The 2025 reboot of the PIB program is a total revamp designed with the decidedly mobile professional trucker in mind. You can access it today at https://overdriveonline.com/pib For more than two …

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Tony Justice: Top billing at MATS, honoring a mother's legacy, prospects for new record 33:13

3M ago33:13

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This week’s edition of Overdrive Radio starts with a brief part of "Truck Stop," earmarked by today's guest for a special place in his heart the last time we hosted him. That'd be trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, who back then in 2023 spoke to the inspiration the song took from Justice’s mother’s long work at a couple of different East Tennessee tr…

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Trucker of the Month Kenny Wingate leans into the pride, and brass tacks, of owner-op trucking 34:20

3M ago34:20

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The voice you'll hear at the top of this Overdrive Radio edition is that of Overdrive's February Trucker of the Month Kenny Wingate. Clearly, he knows of what he speaks when he invokes the feeling -- "nothing like it," he said -- that he associates with best of trucking as an owner-operator, running your own game when times are good. It's part of w…

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New battery-powered auxiliary A/C system: Small fleet owner looks to move truck-to-truck for better ROI 18:15

3M ago18:15

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Jamie Hagen's got the inside scoop, but won't divulge the name of the new Mack tractor model set to be debuted next month in New York in this year of Mack's 125th anniversary as a company. Small Fleet owner Hagen has actually driven one hand-built production model already around the company’s test track hidden behind the walls, and come June he exp…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Day and Night

3M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are making up for lost time and have two beers to try on this episode, Lezak By Day and Lezak By Night both from Alarmist Brewing. These are a couple of the newest beers fro…

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Get in where you fit in: Hotels4Truckers revamped for truck parking-friendly, discounted bookings 21:09

3M ago21:09

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, Hotels4Truckers.com proprietor Dan Fuller, former driver and independent owner-operator, details completion of a project years in the making. The website and now mobile app as well got its start simply as a cataloging of hotels around the nation where parking a tractor and 53-foot trailer was not only poss…

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Don't be an unwitting accomplice to cargo theft: Cautionary tale, steps to mitigate risk 21:55

4M ago21:55

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Today, a bit of a hypothetical that is really not hypothetical at all, though we’ll withhold names with multiple court cases pending. But consider the scenario: You engage with a broker you feel you know is legitimate for a load of copper moving toward the Northeast. You drop that load for $1,600, you ultimately get paid, and you go on about your b…

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'Road less traveled': Trucker of the Month Ken Brodeur takes control with authority 24:05

4M ago24:05

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In this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, January Trucker of the Month Ken Brodeur, owner-operator out of Escondido, California, tells the tale of his circuitous path to trucking over three decades of prior IT tech and music-industry careers. He leased and then purchased his first and current truck in 2016, a new Kenworth W9 that he’s kept in grea…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Swifties

4M ago

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Chicago Beer Pass: Swifties Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are back behind the microphones to kick off 2025. On this episode, the guys have a Taylor Swift-inspired collaboration from the folks at Forbidde…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Lost Holiday Episode

4M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. This episode of Chicago Beer Pass was recorded around Christmas and got a bit lost in the shuffle. Brad Chmielewski and Nik White also had some audio issues so unfortunately this isn’t the best-sounding episode. To go along with this holiday …

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Beat the 'winner's curse' of auction-type negotiations for better freight rates 39:49

4M ago39:49

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With this week's edition of Overdrive Radio, we pick up where longtime Overdrive contributor, former OTR owner and current business coach Gary Buchs left off on the Overdrive Extra blog last week: https://www.overdriveonline.com/15736116/ There, as regular readers will know, he penned and published notes on the "fine art" of rates negotiation, with…

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How to build the 'Remarkable One Truck Company': NASTC, Kevin Rutherford on ROTC progress 38:42

4M ago38:42

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"The goal of this program is to take one truck and figure out how to squeeze the maximum amount of profit out of that truck." --Kevin Rutherford on NASTC's ROTC joint effort with his businessKevin Rutherford's Let's Truck and other initiatives are likely well-known to Overdrive readers. We last heard his voice here in Overdrive Radio from the confe…

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Staying young, learning more: Master of the owner-operator craft Alan Kitzhaber, Trucker of the Year 33:34

5M ago33:34

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"Constantly trying to learn new things just keeps you keeps your mind young. It keeps you going. When you stop learning, you kind of just stagnate and drift away." --Owner-operator Alan KitzhaberOverdrive Radio listeners will recognize the voice at the top of the podcast this week as that of longtime owner-op Alan Kitzhaber of Eau Claire, Wisconsin…

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Hacked? How trucking owner-ops can contain the damage -- or better yet, avoid it in the first place 33:44

5M ago33:44

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"Theft increased 1,445 percent from the first quarter in 2022 to the first quarter in 2024." --Kathleen Dasal, retired from the Ansonia commercial credit bureauDasal presented at this past November’s annual conference of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies – and emphasized that huge increase in cargo theft over these last years, ai…

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Tour-haul 'special forces': Small fleet owner Josh Rickards building the team with owner-ops 37:33

5M ago37:33

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For every story of difficulty expanding beyond a single truck with leased owner-operators, there's probably more than one tale of success. The latter's been the story the last several years for owner-operator Josh Rickards, whose Rickards Transportation Services business as of late November was up to a total of five owners leased on in addition to …

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4 million miles toward optimism for a new year: Overdrive Radio's countdown to 2025 1:02:22

5M ago1:02:22

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Happy New Year! This final Overdrive Radio podcast for 2024 -- or the first for 2025, whenever you happen to be catching it -- looks back on the year that has been, a certainly sluggish one when it comes to business for many, though with a degree of optimism heading into 2025 with a new administration incoming and hope for business-friendly policy …

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Chicago Beer Pass: Great Christmas

5M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are having a great Christmas with some cans of Great Lakes Christmas Ale. As the guys spread some Christmas joy they recap Friday night at FoBAB. There were some great beers…

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Five decades of trucking, advocacy, 'swinging the bat' for small business: Joe Rajkovacz 35:17

6M ago35:17

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"I just believe very passionately that if you're going to take your industry seriously, you need to be engaged, you need to be involved." --Joe Rajkovacz, Director of Government Affairs, Western States Trucking AssociationThe quote above comes from this week's long talk with Rajkovacz, with a long history in trucking and with the last decade and a …

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'You can succeed': Truckers of the Month beat 2024's sluggish conditions with more than just will 30:10

6M ago30:10

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In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, drop into the second and final part of this series re-engaging with Overdrive's 2024 Trucker of the Year competitive field of owner-operators, with check-ins on how the year shaped up for each individual owner. Likewise, you'll hear plenty considered advice from each business owner for peers, particularly tho…

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Success through self-help, lane change: 2024 Trucker of the Year 'exit interviews,' part 1 30:56

6M ago30:56

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Today on Overdrive Radio, after a year's worth of talks featuring Overdrive's Truckers of the Month, all of whom remain in the running for the top 2024 Trucker of the Year honor, the first of two final talks featuring a bevy of contenders. Call this and next week's podcast edition the “Exit Interviews” series, if you will, as judges work through th…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Snow Already Here

6M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White have finally finished their Oktoberfest journey for the year and are now ready to ring in the new year. Although there is snow on the ground, they are enjoying a grapefruit …

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What can owner-ops expect from Trump II? Outlook for speed limiters, transparency, parking, more 30:33

6M ago30:33

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When Donald Trump first came into the White House back in 2017, an express deregulatory agenda yielded various moves most owner-operators could count as wins. Though the administration famously did not act to block implementation of the Congressional electronic logging device mandate later that year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration'…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Oktoberfest Showdown

6M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are joined by Sergio Salgado to close out their Oktoberfest journey. The three guys open over a dozen beers and do their best to choose their favorite. When all these Chicag…

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Owner-op Garrett Steenblik's 200-lb. weight loss journey to Trucker's Body Shop program to give back 33:04

6M ago33:04

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When truck owner Garrett Steenblik was in the throes his personal body-transformation journey toward losing, ultimately, 200 lbs. over-the-road, he was hauling with Boyle Transportation, it was his birthday, and he got a message over the Qualcomm from operations wishing him a happy birthday. Such was his commitment to working physical activity into…

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Paying trucking knowledge forward: Growing pains and adjustment, more from four Small Fleet Champs 46:24

7M ago46:24

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It’s one of our favorite opportunities covering the trucking world these last several years -- the annual conference of the National Association of Small Trucking Companies, for four years now the sponsor of Overdrive's annual Small Fleet Championship, recognizing and sharing the stories of business excellence for owner-operators who hit and/or cro…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Oktoberfest To Halloween

7M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White have cans of Hopewell Brewing’s Oktoberfest. In a previous year’s showdown, the Hopewell Oktoberfest was one of the guy’s favorites. Also, the guys have a Pliny The Edler on…

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Veterans Day special: Coalition supporting vets in ag careers honored in Howes Hall of Fame 25:23

7M ago25:23

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Here’s wishing all United States military veterans in the audience a happy Veterans Day with this edition of Overdrive Radio. To mark the day, we bring you this dive into the work of the Farmer Veteran Coalition, an organization that got its start back in 2009 with a goal of a then California/Mexico produce farmer to help support returning military…

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'Good day to be out trucking': Overdrive October Trucker of the Month, two-truck Zimmerman Ag 27:09

7M ago27:09

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In this Overdrive Radio, we catch up primarily with owner-operator Daryl Zimmerman of Belgrade, Minnesota, co-owner with his brother, Nelson (also featured in the podcast), of two-truck Zimmerman Ag. Daryl was looking out the windshield glass on a bright and sunny day running between Minneapolis-St. Paul and his area in Central Minnesota bound for …

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The 'driver shortage' is dead? And: Inside the broker-carrier scrum at last week's summit 34:48

7M ago34:48

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"The driver shortage is dead, long live the driver shortage."That’s sort of the message you might get digging into a recent truck driver compensation study and the "driver shortage" narrative’s longest proponent’s response to it. That compensation study was conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine at the request of …

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Chicago Beer Pass: RIP Temperance

8M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White have a few cans of Oktoberfest from Printer’s Row Brewing. With so many Oktoberfest beers in the Chicagoland area, it’s kind of surprising how different they can be. As the …

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Chicago Beer Pass: P3 Mixed

8M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White crack open another Oktoberfest, but this time, they have a full mixed pack from Phase Three. Brad picked up these cans on his recent trip to the P3 in Elmhurst. On this epis…

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$2 million Peterbilt 389X with a special mission, benefiting Wounded Warrior Project, other orgs 25:02

8M ago25:02

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The expert singing voice of Marine veteran and Nashville-headquartered singer-songwriter Sal Gonzalez warms up and brings to fruition a special celebration event held last week by Rush Truck Centers in Nashville, Tennessee, in this edition of Overdrive Radio. Rush was announcing the big winner of the quite expensive, final, only 2025 build of a Pet…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Rocktober

8M ago

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Chicago Beer Pass: Rocktober Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White are still on their Oktoberfest journey, and this time, they have cans from Riverland Brewing. As they knock back a couple of tasty fall Oktoberf…

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Rene Holguin, September Trucker of the Month, cementing a legacy with authority 23:09

8M ago23:09

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"He's such a hard worker. He's always helping his family to help get their own authority. He'll let them lease on for a while ... until they get on their feet and get their own authority. ... He's just a good person all around." --Messina Holguin, speaking to reasons she nominated her husband, owner-operator Rene Holguin, for Overdrive's Trucker of…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Das Boot

8M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White continue their Oktoberfest journey, but this time, they have das boot! Filling up their boots, they drink cans of More’s Oktoberfest that Brad picked up on his recent suburb…

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Owner-operator income/cost stability shows in 2024 ATBS update: When will rates rise? 1:00:40

8M ago1:00:40

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"If you're doing the right things ... if you're looking at your numbers, figuring out your fixed cost per day, your variable cost per mile, and choosing the best loads for yourself, you're going to weather this winter just fine like you have the last two years. And then when freight turns around, you're going to be in really good shape." --ATBS Vic…

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Chicago Beer Pass: Wisconsin Oktoberfest

8M ago

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Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. On this episode of Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White continue their Oktoberfest journey, this time opening bottles of Staghorn Octoberfest from New Glarus Brewing. Sure, New Glarus Brewing isn’t an Illinois brewery, but you ha…

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When will freight markets turn? Part 2: Building business for trucking's down cycles 29:24

8M ago29:24

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In this week's Overdrive Radio edition, Part 2 of our "How to build business for trucking’s down cycles" online roundtable in late August. Among the questions flagged for panelists was just whether, and when, the long freight-rates slide of the last two years might turn the corner, or at least stabilize. Since the late-August time period, the march…

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