When the telephones are ringing, when the deliveries are arriving on time and when truck drivers and staff are in good moods, you as a fleet manager can focus on larger issues – like making the right investment to grow your business. While investment decisions aren’t always the easiest, sometimes the best place to spend…
The trucking industry can cruise a little easier following last week’s decision by the Senate Appropriations Committee to roll back House GOP-backed cuts to transportation projects, blocking at least temporarily 34-hour restart provisions. Critics complained the rule changes, which restrict nighttime commercial truck driving, increase traffic crashes and put the regulatory brakes on truck companies’…
Trucking fleets today operate with a variety of challenges; U.S. labor force demographics, the federal government’s deregulation of the industry in the 1980s, and, in a related sense, the vastly increased level of market competition. Long-time fleet managers have had to overhaul their business models to survive and to thrive on this new financial landscape,…
It’s inevitable: The Federal Carrier Safety Administration will mandate fleets install electronic logging devices (eLogs) in trucks. While many industry leaders and fleet managers are seemingly holding their breath and pondering whether the regulation has any redeeming value, many providers and experts are urging businesses to get onboard quickly. More than 2.6 million commercial trucks…
