The dealer's monthly payment hides 21% in interest. Here's the math.
A $75,000 truck financed at 9% APR for 60 months costs $90,940 all-in. The $15,940 gap is total interest. How to calculate what you're actually paying before…
Yolanda Stark
Owner-Operator, Driver Life, TMS & Load Boards
Yolanda Stark covers everything between the cab and the bank account, owner-operator finance (insurance, taxes, fuel cards, factoring), parking and detention, plus the software side: TMS reviews, load boards, dispatch tools, and accounting platforms small fleets actually use. Former driver. She writes the Sunday-night-before-Monday version of the news, and she counts in dollars per month, not basis points.
Tenet Transportation Tech and Crown Data Systems merge TMS platforms
Tenet's carrier operations software and Crown's airfreight trucking software are now one company. What it means for small fleets shopping for a TMS.
House Approves $200 Million for Truck Parking in Fiscal 2027 Bill
Federal funding would expand parking capacity nationwide. No word yet on which states get the money or when construction starts.
Trucker Path Now Lets You Reserve 50,000 Paid Parking Spots
The app that helped drivers find free parking now books paid spots at 50,000 locations.
What telematics actually costs a 3-truck fleet in 2026
Waste Connections runs 18,000 connected trucks on telematics. Here's what the same platform costs a small fleet and what you get for the money.
How to close a 1.5 MPG fuel gap that costs $20,000 a year
Two owner-operators run the same lane. One burns 80 extra gallons a week. The difference is not the truck.
Motive AI Omnicam Plus puts 360-degree camera view inside the cab
Drivers get the same monitor view fleet managers see. Four-camera support includes trailer cargo monitoring.
Should You Buy or Lease Your Truck? The Tax Math That Decides
Section 179 and bonus depreciation let you deduct the full purchase price in year one. Here's how that changes the math for a $160,000 truck.
Last-Mile Owner-Ops Gain Edge as Warehouse Space Tightens in 2026
Industrial real estate vacancy is dropping after a year of oversupply. Developers are building smaller, urban warehouses that favor box trucks and sprinters…
What does data lock-in cost a 5-truck fleet every month?
Fragmented TMS, ELD, and dispatch systems force small fleets to waste hours reconciling records and building manual workarounds instead of running trucks.
Kleinschmidt backs Upwell to cut invoice delays with AI audit
Partnership routes EDI 210 invoices through automated validation before they hit the shipper, eliminating the back-and-forth that holds up carrier payments.
ArcBest View Platform Lets Shippers Book and Track in One Login
ArcBest launched a unified shipment execution platform May 27 that consolidates quoting, booking, tracking, billing, and performance reporting into one…