Features

All wrapped up

Packaging optimization is an area of the supply chain that has long received too little attention. But its benefits are becoming more and more known, not only to consumers fed up with extra garbage, b...

Tough talk on fuel efficiency

MT: I think the only thing that we can accurately predict about fuel pricing is that it is going to be volatile. When you look ahead with your own supply chain budgets, how do you factor that in? Wher...

Can you meet their needs?

Sometimes the most pleasant of surprises come during the most dire of circumstances. When we wrote last year that human resource management in 2010 would not be for the faint of heart, we were in the ...

Driver Satisfaction Survey (September 01, 2010)

Last year, we were alarmed to find that job satisfaction had dropped to its lowest level since the start of the survey, with the national job satisfaction level calculated at a mere 3.13 out of 5. Tha...

Respondent Profile and Survey Methodology

Over the course of the past year, company drivers and owner/operators were invited to participate in our fifth annual national Driver Satisfaction Survey in a variety of ways. E-mail invites were sent...

Which TMS is best for you?

As economic indicators improve, there is growing interest among carriers to restart some of their infrastructural systems improvement projects that had been postponed due to cost cutting. A typical qu...

Negotiation time

MT: The economic recovery to this point has been weaker than hoped. When you are looking at the rest of 2010 and into next year, how do things look within your company as far as freight volumes are co...

Freight costing with accuracy

Producing products or services is all about the activities, not just the resources.

International says Advanced EGR wins ‘fluid economy’ war vs. SCR

You may want to add the term "fluid economy" to your truck vocabulary. It's a term you'll likely hear frequently from Navistar International as the company continues to forge its own path towards EPA2...

What do your customers want most from you?

A slumping economy combined with overzealous equipment purchasing on behalf of carriers can have a measurable impact on capacity. Price has been a significant issue in the trucking industry during the...

Shine on you crazy diamond

TORONTO, Ont. - Veteran show'n'shine winner Michael 'Motor' Rosenau admits to having OCCD: Obsessive Compulsive Chrome Disorder. The 2009 Truck News O/O of the Year has 25 trophies to his name. And he...

Game on!

CANADA - If you needed proof the trucking industry is on the mend, look no further than the successful resumption of provincial and regional truck driving championships held from coast to coast this s...

Have we finally turned the corner?

It's been a busy month. One day I was visiting HGC (The Harmon Group)'s new 45,000-plus sq.-ft. terminal, shop and warehouse in Caledon, Ont. which was built on land purchased during the Great Recessi...

Taking a ‘wait and see’ approach isn’t without risk

As Canadians, we tend to lean towards a "wait and see" attitude. You can see that everywhere you look in our industry: Let's wait and see how the economy fares in 2010 before making any decisions abou...

Did you know? (August 01, 2010)

A slumping economy combined with overzealous equipment purchasing on behalf of carriers can have a measurable impact on capacity concerns among shippers and considerable downward pressure on rates. Ba...