CarriersEdge, which provides online driver training for the trucking industry, is offering a new business training course for new and aspiring owner-operators. The online course, Owner-Operator ...

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin-based N. Scott “Scooter” White, an owner-operator leased to Landstar, always dreamed of becoming a truck driver and owning his own truck and trailer. His grandfather was a ...

Owner-operators are a huge part of the heavy truck market, and they’ve been among the most hesitant groups to transition from diesel to electric semi trucks. That may be changing, however, as Saldivar ...

Owner-operator Jason Shelly trucks today in a modified 2007 Western Star 4900 that was a car-haul rig in its prior life -- a "body-dropped EX with a short hood," he said, and "obviously I took the ...

Heavy-duty trucking is a complex and varied industry. Anyone who has worked as an owner-operator or in a small to mid-sized trucking company knows that nearly everyone wears multiple hats, and there ...

Becoming an owner-operator isn’t just about leasing a truck. It’s about navigating a complex marketplace, maintaining high-quality equipment and running a sustainable business. SFI was established ...

A collaboration between Truckstop and OOIDA is aimed at providing owner-operators with tools that will help protect and grow their businesses. As part of this collaboration, OOIDA has designated ...

The trucking industry has strong opinions about regulators’ independent contractor classification rules. But how important are these rules? The classification concerns a regulation that has little ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OOIDA has filed its latest brief in its fight against AB5. (Photo: Jim Allen\FreightWaves) The latest brief by the Owner-Operator ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has given renewed hope to truck owner-operators that the government will make it easier for them to review broker transaction records to combat alleged price ...

My grandfather was a long-haul truck driver from well before I was born until just two years before his death in 2013, so I’ve heard some stories about life on the road. He had seen death, and he had ...