Every business has the power to be innovative, but there are certain steps you need to take. Disruption is a fact of life for industries today. Cassettes disrupted the vinyl record industry and then were disrupted themselves by the iPod. Digital cameras disrupted the photographic film industry and now cameras […]
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I thought Amazon’s drone delivery service would be the most amazing approach to last mile delivery that couldn’t be topped. Obviously, I was mistaken. There’s no arguing the fact that we’ve all become used to an e-commerce “on-demand” world, where consumers want what they want when they want it…and they […]
How will the internet of things (IoT) and machine-to-machine interoperability impact two major trucking industry woes…driver shortage and fuel costs? Last week I posted a blog discussing how our industry has been and will continue to be impacted by the internet of things (IoT). For the immediate future, what could […]
Communication and connectivity are terms rooted in person-to-person relationships but the Internet of Things (IoT) has shifted that to a device-to-device and machine-to-machine relationship. In 2002, Forbes magazine published an article entitled “The Internet of Things,” which talked about a “standardized way for computers to understand the world.” Although discussions […]
You invest a lot of money in keeping your systems from being hacked but trouble may be coming from unexpected places. Last month, attendees at the AmeriQuest Symposium were made aware of a form of hacking that is much harder to combat because it’s coming from the inside. Well, not […]
Look at today’s truck technology as an assist in your maintenance practices, not a replacement. In her recent IdeaXchange blog, Jane Clark, VP of Member Services for NationaLease, talks about the TMC’s spring meeting in Nashville. A major note of that meeting was the increasing relationship between technology and maintenance […]