Dec 30, 2020
2020 was nothing if not a wild and often confusing ride for most. From the early fears and uncertainty lingering for months after the COVID-19 pandemic first reached U.S. shores in February to the long-lasting impacts on freight and rates and, obviously, the human toll the virus has taken in terms of illness, death and loss — it’s been a trying year for many owner-operators and small fleets.
Below is a collection of the year’s top stories, podcasts, videos and essays published on
Overdrive. If you feel like taking a walk back through the year that was — hours of service reforms, how COVID changed drivers’ lives on the road, managing money amid the chaos and turbulence, the stories of truckers weathering what descended, custom truck videos, the serialized