The owner-operator of yesteryear struggled to prosper amid a complex web of Teamster pressures and over-regulation. Shutdowns and other conflicts lined the highway that led to today’s climate in which ...

OOIDA's Todd Spencer says the last round of hours-of-service changes cut the number of husband-and-wife owner-operator teams. OOIDA's Todd Spencer says the last round of hours-of-service changes cut ...

Of Schneider National’s 13,000-plus drivers, more than 2,200 are owner-operators like Andy Mills, shown here. Photo: Schneider National The Great Recession was tough on owner-operators. Many parked ...

DETAILS: Brielle Jaekel of FreightWaves and Adam Wingfield, founder of Innovative Logistics Group, discuss strategies for maximizing profitability. The North Carolina-based company serves small ...

An owner-operator is essentially a sole proprietor, or a single-person business in which the owner also runs the daily operations of her company. An owner-operator has the right to make all decisions ...

The demise this month of nearly century-old Yellow Corp., once a titan of the industry's less-than-truckload sector, brought on many opportunities for others in the LTL space. Rivals such as XPO, Old ...

Jeremy Robison is the president of Tetra Capital, an independent company offering quick and easy freight bill factoring services to trucking companies of all sizes. He’s dealt with a variety of ...

An owner-operator is typically a self-employed commercial truck driver, but the term can also refer to any business owner who owns and operates a business single-handedly. In either case, the owner is ...

A surge in spot market rates that led some truck drivers to leave fleet jobs and go into business for themselves has cooled off, bringing with it a downturn in the number of drivers striking out on ...

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 ...

The California legislature last week stamped approval on a sweeping legislative package that could dramatically alter the landscape for leased and independent owner-operators in the state, likely ...

Amy Buffardi started working at Culver's in Schaumburg as a teenager and 21 years later, she is now the owner/operator of the ...