Spec the truck for the job: Trucker of the Month Ron Schreiner's oilfield turn to a 2007 379

In this week's Overdrive Radio podcast, dig into Overdrive Senior Editor Matt Cole’s talk with Colorado headquartered 5S Express owner-operator Ron Schreiner, leased to Pejsa Family Transportation pulling the company’s takers out of the oilfield on most short dedicated runs. Schreiner’s got many decades of experience that started with a 1950s family business he got involved in growing up in the 1980s and, after his time in the Marine Corps, went hauling leased to in a W900A with a special family history itself. Cole first told Schreiner's story attendant to the owner getting the nod as May Trucker of the Month, putting Schreiner in the running for the 2026 Trucker of the Year award: https://overdriveonline.com/15826121 You can nominate an owner-operator you admire, or enter your own business, for consideration via this link: https://overdriveonline.com/toptrucker Owner-operator Schreiner’s experience in his current business reboot, following his father's early-century passing, sees him following his own best piece of advice for all manner of aspiring or new-to-the-business owners. Namely, find the right used truck for the job you’ll doing. More about that in the podcast this week, and perhaps more importantly, he said, make sure your family fully supports you in your drive to success. "You really have to have your family on board," he said. "It's important to have your family be able to back you ... to understand your time will be dedicated to that truck, to getting that business running." Schreiner’s in gear in that regard, no doubt, with his wife, Kay, and three children helping make a challenging overnight oilfield schedule work efficiently as possible -- and he’s home most days in the afternoons. He’s hauling in a 2007 Pete 379 in tip-top shape after a some recent front end repairs. As told in Cole's feature and in the podcast in his own words, Schreiner had an unfortunate wee-hours run-in with a cow on the way to load. Though the fleet he’s leased to was able to offer use of an idle truck to continue his daily runs, Schreiner was fast to move with his go-to maintenance partner on the repair. As he well knows, as is the case for any one-truck operation, "the grocery getter gets attention first," he said. That's right, "grocery getter," his phrase for the 379 that powers the biz, and the family behind it. No, he's not pulling a reefer. "She's the one that puts a roof over our head," he said of the truck, "and she comes first."