March 5, 2023
When my wife and I got married and moved into our first house, our first major home furnishings purchase was a huge (at the time) television: a 55-inch rear projection Sony Wega that set us back $3,000. In 2004, that was the equal to more than five mortgage payments.
It was probably one of the dumber things we could have purchased at the time but in your early 20s, and rounding corner into football season, your priorities don’t always make a lot of sense.
March 1, 2023
Brakes are annually a top out of service violation during Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) International Roadcheck, and this year will get special emphasis during the campaign in May.
A high-visibility, high-volume 72-hour inspection and enforcement event Roadcheck will have CVSA-certified inspectors in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. focus on anti-lock braking systems (ABS) and cargo securement to highlight the importance of those aspects of vehicle safety.
February 27, 2023
Despite challenges getting certain parts and components most of last year, the truck service repair business was booming, according to survey data compiled by Fullbay, a provider of heavy-duty truck and trailer repair shop management software, in partnership with the Technology & Maintenance Council.
February 27, 2023
Today’s fleets have a large flow of data at their disposal, and fleet managers must determine what they would like to measure.
Your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will certainly lead you in the right direction, so look at areas that drive key business decisions. That can be on-time preventive maintenance (PM) completion, downtime, cost per mile (CPM), repair code analysis, en route failures, etc.
February 23, 2023
Supply chain disruptions have made headlines since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it’s not slowing down when it comes to cargo theft.
Recently released 2022 data shows that events involving the theft of cargo across the U.S. and Canada increased by 20% year-over-year, according to a study by CargoNet, and more avenues for exploitation are opening as carriers onboard more technology.
February 22, 2023
Turns out, standards are absolutely useful in making innovation happen. Go figure.
A little history tour: Malcolm McLean started out as a truck driver, buying one used truck and starting a trucking company. In time, he had a vision of revolutionizing freight transportation. His vision became the ubiquitous shipping containers and all the infrastructure tied to them.
February 16, 2023
Companies have been trying different ways to offset the impacts of the driver shortage across the trucking industry – from the ages old sign-on bonus to implementing technology that increases uptime and increases automation to improve existing driver satisfaction.
February 15, 2023
Car haulers push for increased weight limits for electric car transport
A coalition consisting of car haulers, vehicle and trailer manufacturers and more last week penned a letter to members of Congress seeking increased weight limits for car haulers transporting electric vehicles.
February 13, 2023
Officially launched in late July 2022 as part of an effort to address the truck driver shortage, Safe Driver Apprenticeship Pilot Program (SDAP) would allow truck drivers under the age of 21 to drive and conduct interstate commerce or Washington’s fancy way of saying they could cross state lines under certain conditions.
February 13, 2023
I seem to spend a lot of time figuring out acronyms. I have a love/hate relationship with them.
I’m one of those people that likes to skip to the end of a report, read the conclusions and then go back and figure out why the report authors reached them. Acronyms usually are only defined at the beginning of a report, and then used ad nauseam throughout. So, if you start at the end, you have to guess at them.
