What’s the downside to immediate gratification? A lack of appreciation and the loss of anticipation. Normally, my blogs center around issues facing the trucking and truck leasing industry and, to some extent, today’s blog continues to do so, but only peripherally. Philosophical musing isn’t normally my milieu but a February […]
Making big changes can be quite expensive, but you don’t have to spend a lot to see significant positive changes. In a recent IdeaXchange blog, Jane Clark cautioned businesses to not expect to find that one “Big Thing that will suddenly make us 50 percent more productive.” In reality, it’s […]
If millennials are the answer to the growing driver shortage, this recent report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety sends up some warning flares. What do you do when you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place? That’s where the trucking industry might find itself…if it can’t convince […]
If all or part of your fleet is leased or on short-term rental, what are your responsibilities when it comes to ELD compliance? December 18, 2017, will get here all too soon and unless your drivers fall under the few allowable exemptions (drivers of vehicles manufactured before model year 2000; […]
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 […]
The American Society of Civil Engineers once again gives the US infrastructure a grade of D+. When will we see improvement? If there is one thing you can be sure of, it’s that not fixing a problem doesn’t make that problem go away; That’s the case with our ongoing, national […]
The US Department of Transportation expects a greater need for freight transportation over the next few decades. Will your fleet be ready for the expansion? Businesses are often so focused on the next quarter or the next fiscal year, they become short sighted when it comes to the future. Yet […]