Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Mentor definition; an experienced and trusted adviser, or an experienced person in a company, college, or school whom trains and counsels new employees or students. by Ray Haight Mentors I can say that I have had 5 mentors in my five plus decades of business and personal life these people either stepped up and played a formal role…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Encountered any low bridges lately? by Harry Rudolfs A 2009 study blames drivers following automobile GPS in 80% of commercial vehicle low bridge collisions in New York State. This is mostly trucks, although as I recall there was…
Doug Marcello Author Gravatar Image Driver Awareness–A Key for CSA Control by Doug Marcello Drivers need to understand how CSA works. Absent that understanding, they are doomed to continue the conduct that builds up their points and your scores. I speak at driver meetings…
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image The SmartWay to fuel savings by Lou Smyrlis With fuel being such a large and volatile part of every carrier’s costs, can there be any better strategy than striving towards the best fuel efficiency your fleet can reasonably…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Hitchhiking in Iraq, Christmas 1979 by Harry Rudolfs Some of you might know that I’ve been collecting hitchhiking stories for more than a decade in mind of putting together a book some day and calling it “Stuck in…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image Innovation and Technology Come to the Freight Brokerage Industry by Dan Goodwill In my 2012 year-end blog on Trends in Transportation, I identified a number of areas where I expected to see some changes in 2013. One area I highlighted was the…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image NAFTA Rail Revenues Set to Grow by Dan Goodwill In my last bog I looked at how the near-shoring movement and a host of other factors are contributing to an economic boom in Mexico. I also discussed how the…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image undercover for the news…Truck News that is. by Harry Rudolfs I didn’t need sun glasses or a trench coat to check out this story. All I needed was a telephone and a laptop and it wrote itself. My editor,…
Ray Haight Author Gravatar Image Career Path by Ray Haight There is nothing in my business career after my driving days that I cherish more than watching good people succeed and feeling as though I might have had a hand…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image Almost 20 years since NAFTA, the Mexican Freight Boom May Finally Be Here – Intermodal Shipping may be Big Winner by Dan Goodwill It is hard to believe that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect on January 1, 1994, almost twenty years ago. Like so many of us in…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image A Driver’s Guide to Selecting the Right Trucking Company to Work For by Dan Goodwill Much has been written in recent years about the looming driver shortage in North America. While there are still millions of people unemployed in Canada and the United States, only…
Lou Smyrlis Author Gravatar Image Too many roadblocks to northern infrastructure? by Lou Smyrlis Attending the Transport Institute’s Northern Exposure 2 conference in Winnipeg recently proved an illuminating foray into the challenges of serving Canada’s northern communities – admittedly the kind of stuff those…
Harry Rudolfs Author Gravatar Image Driver Shortage, What Driver Shortage? by Harry Rudolfs Almost a month has passed since the Conference Board of Canada delivered a eye-opening report on the looming driver shortage. Within seven years, by 2020, Canada could have a deficit…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image To Save Money on Freight, Let’s Focus on Good Data rather than Big Data by Dan Goodwill “Big Data” has become one of the more popular business expressions over the past couple of years. This commonly refers to a collection of data sets so large and complex…
Dan Goodwill Author Gravatar Image America’s Major Truckload Carriers Shift Focus to Dedicated and Intermodal by Dan Goodwill The fourth quarter 2012 financial results for America’s leading truckload carriers tell a story of an industry going through transformation and change. The most dramatic poster boy of this change…
