This edition of Overdrive Radio features Owner-Operator of the Year Glen Horack, based in Elkland, Missouri, and so named in Overdrive’s coproduction of the awards program with the Truckload Carriers Association at the TCA annual conference in March in Las Vegas. Horack started team driving with his wife, Karla, after 2008, the one year -- "knock on wood," Horack said -- his one-truck business truly struggled in the depths of the Great Recession.
Running team in the aftermath, as you’ll hear in part 1 of 2 featuring my June 2022 conversations the Horacks, the pair came out from under debt taken on as freight fell off quickly. It's a testament to the owners’ ability to adjust their reefer-hauling operation alongside three-decade partners in Prime, Inc., where they're still leased.
Hear both Glen and Karla speak to the experience of training each other, of a fashion, when Karla got her CDL training on the truck with Glen ("if I'd had a tire thumper, I might have thumped him a few times," she joked). You'll hear Glen’s history trucking alongside his family life; his per-mile set-aside strategy developed over the years to guard against the potential for unforeseen repairs; white-out, white-knuckle blizzard conditions in Nebraska; and how the Horacks have persevered in business together through it all. … Take a listen:
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