Academia, lawmakers, and regulators often look at the trucking industry from the 30,000-foot level. However, the OOIDA Foundation (OOFI) believes it’s important to examine trucking from the driver’s seat by looking through the windshield, six feet up from the pavement.
To accomplish this task, OOFI began distributing educational bulletins, or as we like to call them, “Dispatches,” to OOIDA members. We dispatched our first bulletin on December 15, 2021 and haven’t looked back since.
We currently offer two dispatches a month.
- Trucker Success highlights information and tools that will help assist members on the road to success.
- Trucker Reality helps truckers see past the marketing material and the pie in the sky mentality by examining the “realities of trucking.”
Trucker Success
This dispatch highlights a variety of information and tools:
- Does anyone have a crystal ball
- Manufacturing helps determine the fate of the freight market
- Signs of life, but the upcycle is still months away
- What’s instore for the 2024 Freight Market_ Answer, TBD
- Used Class 8 truck prices decline, that’s good and bad
- OOIDA Foundation’s new market report
- Rates are stuck at the bottom
- When will the market turn up again (Part 2)
- When will the market turn up again (Part 1)
- Manufacturing slows down in May, so do rates
- Rates continue to bounce along the bottom
- Rates and Truck to Success
- Load-to-truck ratios slide, but there’s promising signs ahead
- Excess capacity pushes rates downward
- Truck capacity loosens ahead of peak shipping season
- Volume is elevated, but rates are dropping… what gives…
- Trucking Market Update
- The OOIDA Foundation speaks at the MCVSS
- OOIDA opposes speed limiters
- What you need to know about Fuel Surcharge
- Freight Rates
- New driver training rule almost here…finally
- The typical day for an owner-operator
Trucker Reality
This dispatch helps truckers examine current issues through the realities of trucking:
- Disinflation vs. Deflation
- Remote workers and Detention Time
- A Supply Chain without Truckers
- Welcome to Trucker Reality
- How close are autonomous trucks
- Diesel Prices are on the rise, can you survive
- Are we headed toward a freight recession
- Big carriers announce record revenues
- ATA’s myths and facts vs reality
- AB5 and Underride
- Questions for factoring companies
- What exactly is double brokering
- A new year’s message for FMCSA
- The EV race and freight rates
- Speed limiters – the snake oil is in the cure
- Loaded for bears
- California takes the lead in privacy protection for truckers
- AV Trucks and fuzzy math
- VIUS is back and CVSA is at it again
- Brokers going broker