If I was to ask any trucking company this simple question I would expect or hope to expect to get the same answer from all of them. If, in the next twelve months you have only two options available to you: first you can expend capital and increase debt to grow your fleet by 10%;…

I recently returned from the ATA MC&E (Management Conference and Exhibition) that was held in Las Vegas. I was there to share in my dear friend Kevin Burch’s limelight as he assumed the role of Chairman for the 2016/17 term. Kevin is the President of Jet Express out of Dayton, Ohio and he will do…

Juliet argued that it didn’t matter if Romeo was from the house of Montague. Using the line “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” she contrasted the good of Romeo and “the bad” of Montague, exposing names as mere words to truth. Abraham Lincoln once asked a friend “…if you call a…

Recently I was traveling along an interstate within a construction area and realized I was merely inches from a driver pulling a set of doubles next to me. As I watched those huge tires alongside my convertible, I recalled an elementary school class about trust. Our teacher asked us to define the word trust and…

WINTER IS COMING! And unlike the Game of Thrones where winter comes occasionally and is accompanied with great dread, our winters come every year. But we do have one thing in common with this series… we also feel great dread at its arrival. This is especially true in the trucking industry where the coming of…

Over The Road November Issue now online!

Trucker Buddy Michael Schueller, a driver for Alaska West Express based in Anchorage, Alaska, has been named an Outstanding Trucker Buddy following his nomination by Verlene Wilson, a third and fourth grade teacher at Cornerstone Christian Academy located in Post Falls, Idaho. In her nomination, Ms. Wilson said, “[Michael] has been the Trucker Buddy in…

Growing your fleet and generating more sales without tending to your bottom line is a little like the old Jackie Mason joke when he tells the audience how rich his brother-in-law got by selling watches at cost. So how’s he making any money if he’s selling them at cost? He sells a lot of watches!…