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The Over The Road now online! Please Click on thumbnail below to view!
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The word Uber means “very super.” Uber Freight is working to become a “very super” way to match carriers with shippers through its app. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Uber Freight’s offices in downtown San Francisco and speak with the team about the underrepresentation of women throughout the trucking industry, as well as…
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The title of this article isn’t just “Communication” – it’s “Communication, Communication & Communication” and it is repeated a few times for the following reasons: • First, to emphasize the importance of communications to the Driver Retention project • Secondly, to emphasize that many different types and methods of communications need to be employed and…
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I keep hearing about the ‘Driver Shortage’. Everyone that I talk to tells me about it. When I’m talking to drivers, they say that they know that they can quit a job today and be driving tomorrow. When I discuss hiring with my clients, they repeatedly say that they can’t hire drivers and that there…
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A few months ago my family and I got together and took a course to obtain our PAL and RPAL licence (Possession and Acquisition Licence, Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licence). With this licence it allows me to purchase, store and use restricted firearms such as revolvers and/or semi-automatic firearms. It’s not that I’m a collector…
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The Over The Road August Issue now online!
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In October of 2014, eighty four young girls gathered at Olive Harvey School in Chicago, Illinois for the first Girl Scout Transportation event. These girls heard from a (female) Navistar Engineer who talked about designing trucks to better accommodate women. They were also given the opportunity to meet two female professional drivers and to climb…
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There are four major things an operator may do that can cause success or failure: fuel consumption, maintenance, carrier contract and income taxes. Blame for the failure of an operator is usually not in that order. Both maintenance and income taxes get the highest blame while fuel and carrier contract carries the lowest blame. Just…
