This September begins a celebration with much excitement. OTR had the privilege of spending time with Rolly Uloth, President of Rosedale and his daughter Rhoda Uloth to discuss where the company has come from and where it is going. To start the 50th Anniversary celebration, everyone working at Rosedale in Canada will receive a commemorative…

Regan is a professional driver for YRCW. When she started working for the carrier, she identified as a male but has since transitioned into a female. She is one of the members of the gender diversity task force recently formed by the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) to better understand the needs of the LGBTQ…

The following article is an edited excerpt from the Truckload Carriers Association’s Driver Retention Manual, Chapter 30. OBJECTIVE: To get much more granular in measuring driver turnover by focusing on sub-categories such as dispatch board, Company Driver vs. O/O and entry-level drivers. This exercise will reveal where your company strengths and weaknesses are – providing…

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There was a time when driving was a co-operative effort. If someone needed to change lanes, all that was required was to turn on the appropriate signal and other motorists would make room for them. If you were preparing to parallel park, other motorists would wait while you stopped and backed into the space. Today,…

Today I am addressing all Truck Drivers. You have a most challenging occupation. It seems like everything is out of your control. While you can often choose your dispatch, you can never control the vehicles around you. Other drivers (especially automobile operators) simply don’t understand what it is that you are trying to do. Of…

Here we are at the end of this series. If you were to try and follow this process from beginning to end, I would suspect that the whole process would take six to twelve months. If done correctly you should see a substantial reduction in your turnover numbers. The trick is how to sustain and…

In over eleven years of writing for Over the Road, I’ve never done a book review on a book I haven’t yet finished reading. I don’t advise it and I hope to never do it again, but I’ve been so moved by a section of a book that I’m only 20% finished that I am…